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Born into a family where material privilege
interlaced with progressive thinking, Weston would
struggle to balance his compelling need to make art
with his persuasive advocacy for humanitarian causes.
Weston’s athletic body was stricken with polio in 1911, leaving him
with an emaciated leg. By dint of his strong will, Weston threw his
crutches away and continued to climb his beloved Adirondacks. After graduating
magna cum laude from Harvard in 1916, Weston joined
the British YMCA, and
as part of his relief activities formed the Baghdad
Art Club. The kaleidoscopic
desert colors that he sketched would reverberate in his painting fifty
years later. And scenes of famine that he observed on his travels home
through Persia and India would become catalysts for later humanitarian
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Elwand Range, 1919, oil on cardboard. Private collection.
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