Flowers
Medium
Watercolor and gouache on cream wood-pulp laminate board
Dimensions
66.5 × 56 cm (26 3/16 × 22 1/16 in.)
Classification
watercolor
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
14817
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...