From the very first his
art was that of an individualist, a man going his
own way. —Lloyd
Goodrich, director of the Whitney Museum, Congressional
Record, 1972
Harold Weston, a modernist painter whose
outsized zest for life powered his art, painted in
Persia, the Adirondack mountains, French Pyrenees,
Greenwich Village, and the Isle of Rhodes. Weston’s
prodigious output arcs from the expressionist Adirondack
landscapes first shown at the Montross Gallery (1922),
to the New Deal murals with graphic depictions of
Federal construction (1936-38), and, lastly, to the
gouache abstracts known as the Stone Series (1968-72).
The Harold Weston Foundation, a repository of Harold Weston’s artwork
and archival material, is open to collaboration with institutions and scholars
in an effort to promote a greater understanding of the artist’s art
and life.next
page>
