Connecticut Village (Going to School)
after 1891
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
24 1/8 x 20 1/8 in. (61.3 x 51.1 cm)
Classification
Painting
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876-1967), 1967
Accession Number
67.187.143
Tags
Art Historical Context
Julian Alden Weir's *Connecticut Village (Going School)*, painted after 1891, captures serene charm of rural New England life in an oil-on-canvas landscape measuring 24 1/8 x 20 1/8 inches. Now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of's American Wing, this work depicts a quaint village scene likely featuring children heading to school amid lush trees, evoking the everyday rhythms of late 19th-century America Weir, a prominent American Impressionist and co-founder of Ten American Painters, drew inspiration from his home in Windham, Connecticut where he settled in 1882 to focus on pastoral subjects....
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...