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Julian Alden Weir, artist
American, 1852 - 1919
The Muse of Music, 1882 - 1884
oil on canvas
44 1/4 x 34 1/2 (112.4 x 87.6 cm)
Mildred Anna Williams Collection 1942.24

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Artist Biography: Painter, etcher and lithographer; born West Point, N.Y. 1852, died in New York 1919. One of earliest American impressionists. Son of Robert Walter Weir, professor of drawing at West Point, 1834-1876. Brother of John Ferguson Weir, Director of School of Fine Arts, Yale University. A founder of the Society of American Artists (1877), member of National Academy (1886) and its president (1915). Member of Ten American Artists (1898); member of National Academy of Arts and Letters.

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