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    • Irene Weir (AMERICAN 1858 - 1944) watercolor on paper, "Peasants at Monet France", 20 1/2" x 16" sight, 30" x 25" overall
      Aug. 16, 2022

      Irene Weir (AMERICAN 1858 - 1944) watercolor on paper, "Peasants at Monet France", 20 1/2" x 16" sight, 30" x 25" overall

      Est: $200 - $400

      Irene Weir (AMERICAN 1858 - 1944) watercolor on paper, "Peasants at Monet France", 20 1/2" x 16" sight, 30" x 25" overall

      Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions
    • Irene Weir, New York / Connecticut / Missouri. (1858 - 1944), untitled landscape, oil on board, 23 1/2"H x 17 1/2"W (sight), 29 5/8"H x 23 1/2"W (frame)
      Jun. 04, 2022

      Irene Weir, New York / Connecticut / Missouri. (1858 - 1944), untitled landscape, oil on board, 23 1/2"H x 17 1/2"W (sight), 29 5/8"H x 23 1/2"W (frame)

      Est: $500 - $700

      Irene Weir New York / Connecticut / Missouri., (1858 - 1944) untitled landscape oil on board signed lower right. From the Archives of askART: She was the first "Directress" of the Norwich Art School. She studied with J.H. Twachtman and her uncles J. Alden Weir and John Ferguson Weir as well as with her grandfather, Robert Walter Weir. The Slater Memorial Museum and Norwich Art School are intimately linked. Had it not been for the Museum, the art school may never have come into existence. Indeed, it was the resource of the collection of plaster cast copies of the ancient World's great sculpture that inspired the Trustees of the Norwich Free Academy to establish a professional training institution for artists. After the dedication of the Slater's Cast Collection in 1888, NFA established the Norwich Art School to widen the opportunities to profit by the new facility. Third NFA Head of School, Robert Porter Keep remarked at the opening of the Art School that The Art School is designed to promote the general advantage of the community. It offers thorough training to residents of Norwich and others and seeks to promote the application of Art to Industry, and with this latter view, the departments of Design and Modelling in clay have been established and a class in Draughting has been organized. The Art School was supported by William A. Slater and other benefactors. Slater clearly saw the deep connection between his greatest gift to the Academy and the Art School, where the principal method of pedagogy was "Drawing from the Antique", the term used for the process of using the casts as subject matter for "life drawing." Robert Walter Weir (June 18, 1803 - May 1, 1889) was best known as an educator and historical painter. Considered an artist of the Hudson River School, he was elected to the National Academy of Design 1829. Weir served as an instructor at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. John Ferguson Weir (1841-1926) was a painter and sculptor, became a Member of the National Academy of Design in 1866, and was the first director of the School of Fine Arts at Yale University (1869-1913). Julian Alden Weir (1852-1919), studied under his father and at the École des Beaux Arts and under Jean-Léon Gérôme in Paris. He became a distinguished portrait, figure and landscape painter and was one of the founders of the Society of American Artists 1877. J. Alden Weir was a member of the Cos Cob Art Colony near Greenwich, Connecticut and one of "The Ten," a loosely-allied group of American artists dissatisfied with professional art organizations, who banded together in 1898 to exhibit their works as a stylistically-unified group. Julian Weir became a member of the National Academy of Design in 1886. Irene Weir assumed the role of director of the Norwich Art School in 1890 apparently before she had completed her own training. According to an un-attributed obituary, she received her bachelor of fine arts degree from Yale University in 1906 and from 1923 to 1927 was a student at the École des Beaux Arts Americaine at Fountainbleau. Also early in her career, she wrote The Greek Painters' Art, which in addition to interpreting the original figures from which many of the casts in the Slater's collection were taken, is a "Grand Tour" style travelogue memoir typical of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Irene Weir established the School of Design and Liberal Arts in New York City in 1917. Her direction of the school appears to have overlapped her studies in Paris. She painted a portrait of Madame Marie Curie for New York's Memorial Hospital and for the new chapel of the West Side Prison, she painted a mural entitled Mother and Babe with Jesus in 1942 at the age of 80. Vivian F. Zoe, Director Slater Memorial Museum

      Ripley Auctions
    • Irene Weir, New York / Connecticut / Missouri (1858 - 1944), The Lone Pine, oil on board, 23 1/2"H x 17 1/2"W (sight), 27"H x 21"W (frame)
      Jun. 04, 2022

      Irene Weir, New York / Connecticut / Missouri (1858 - 1944), The Lone Pine, oil on board, 23 1/2"H x 17 1/2"W (sight), 27"H x 21"W (frame)

      Est: $500 - $700

      Irene Weir New York / Connecticut / Missouri, (1858 - 1944) The Lone Pine oil on board signed lower right. Very slight loss due to scuffing mainly on left side. From Wikipedia: Irene Weir was born to Walter and Annie Field Weir (née Andrews) in St. Louis, Missouri on January 15, 1862.[1][2] Weir came from a long line of artists and educators. Her grandfather Robert Walter Weir was an artist and an instructor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.[2] Her uncles John Ferguson Weir was an artist and director of the School of Fine Arts at Yale and Julian Alden Weir, a leading figure in New York's art world.[3] Chromolithograph by Weir Weir attended Yale from 1881 to 1882 and was awarded a degree in fine arts in 1906 for cumulative artistic achievement rather than coursework.[2][4] She also studied in France, Spain, Holland, United Kingdom and Italy on two separate trips. On returning to the US Weir went on to teach art in New Haven, Connecticut before moving to teach in Brookline, Massachusetts, public school system. There she went on to become the director of art instruction. Weir also served as director of the Slater Museum School of Art in Norwich, Connecticut.[2][3][4][5] In 1911, Weir became the director at the Ethical Teaching School and taught pottery, bookbinding, illustration, etching, illustration, sculpture, and painting.[6][7] In 1917, she founded the School of Design and Liberal Arts and served as director until 1929.[2] As an educator, she championed the idea that art should be for everyone and not just the elite and was enmeshed in everyday life.[8] In 1923, she attended the École des Beaux Arts Américaine in Fontainebleau, France, and graduated in 1927.[2] Weir's own works hang at Washington Cathedral, a prison in New York City, and Memorial hospital in New York as well as having been held in exhibitions from New York to London and Washington D.C.[1][2][9][10] Weir was both an educator and active participant of the art organizations such as the National Society of Etchers, Independent Artists of America, the London Lyceum Club, and the Founders Group of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. She was also director of the Art Alliance of America. She died from cardiovascular disease in 1944 in Yorktown Heights, New York.[1][2][5]

      Ripley Auctions
    • IRENE WEIR, New York/Connecticut/Missouri, 1858-1944, "The Passionate Procession" or "Hybrid Orchids"., Oil on board, 24" x 20". Fra...
      May. 14, 2020

      IRENE WEIR, New York/Connecticut/Missouri, 1858-1944, "The Passionate Procession" or "Hybrid Orchids"., Oil on board, 24" x 20". Fra...

      Est: $400 - $600

      IRENE WEIR New York/Connecticut/Missouri, 1858-1944 "The Passionate Procession" or "Hybrid Orchids". Signed lower left "I. Weir". Titled twice verso. Irene Weir was the first director of the Norwich Art School. She studied under J.H. Twachtman as well as her grandfather, Robert Walter Weir, and uncles J. Alden Weir and John Ferguson Weir. Oil on board, 24" x 20". Framed 32" x 28".

      Eldred's
    • IRENE BANKS - Untitled - Wheat Field Harvest
      Oct. 27, 2018

      IRENE BANKS - Untitled - Wheat Field Harvest

      Est: $100 - $150

      IRENE BANKS (Canadian) "Untitled - Wheat Field Harvest" - Acrylic on canvas board. Signed lower right, framed. 12 x 16 in.

      Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting
    • Irene Weir (American, 1858-1944) Sketch of a Half-length Male Nude. Signed "Iréne Weir" l.r. Mixed media on paper, sight size 12 1/8 x
      Jul. 17, 2013

      Irene Weir (American, 1858-1944) Sketch of a Half-length Male Nude. Signed "Iréne Weir" l.r. Mixed media on paper, sight size 12 1/8 x

      Est: $300 - $500

      Irene Weir (American, 1858-1944) Sketch of a Half-length Male Nude. Signed "Iréne Weir" l.r. Mixed media on paper, sight size 12 1/8 x 9 3/8 in., framed. Condition: Tack hole to u.c. edge, probable toning to sheet, not examined out of mat.

      Skinner
    • IRENE WEIR (AMERICAN 1862-1944). LANDSCAPE WITH MOUNTAINS IN THE DISTANCE.
      Nov. 14, 2010

      IRENE WEIR (AMERICAN 1862-1944). LANDSCAPE WITH MOUNTAINS IN THE DISTANCE.

      Est: -

      IRENE WEIR (AMERICAN 1862-1944). LANDSCAPE WITH MOUNTAINS IN THE DISTANCE. Watercolor on paper, 12 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches, sight. Signed "Irene Weir" l.r.

      Bourgeault-Horan Antiquarians
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