The Little Student
Medium
drypoint
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Addie Burr Clark
Accession Number
1946.9.259
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...