The Grey Bodice
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
76.8 × 64.1 cm (30 1/4 × 25 1/4 in.)
Classification
painting
Department
Arts of the Americas
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
121403
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Julian Alden Weir · 1852–1919
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...