Boats
Medium
Pastel and graphite on paper
Dimensions
Sight: 8 1/2 x 13 1/2 in. (21.6 x 34.3 cm)
Classification
Drawing
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Margaret and Raymond J. Horowitz, 1980
Accession Number
1980.512.1
Tags
Boats
About the Artist
Julian Alden Weir
Julian Alden Weir (1852–1919) was one of the central figures of American Impressionism, a painter whose luminous canvases helped transform the reception of modern French art in the United States and whose personal influence shaped a generation of American artists. Born in West Point, New York, into a family steeped in art — his father Robert Weir was a drawing instructor at West Point — he receive...