Shall we call Weston’s combination of austerity and sensuality a saint’s love of the flesh or a lover’s desire for holiness? At all events, there is a touch of almost religious conviction in it, as in some of the best of D.H. Lawrence’s prose and verse.
Lewis Mumford, New Yorker, 1935
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Selected Bibliography
Over 180 reviews and 40 exhibition catalogues of Harold Weston’s work have been published. For a complete list contact the Harold Weston Foundation. A few key publications follow.
The Expressionist Landscape: North American Modernist Painting 1920–1947. Text by Ruth S. Appelhof, Barbara Haskell, and Jeffrey R. Hayes. Birmingham, Ala.: Birmingham Museum of Art, 1988.
Foster, Rebecca and Caroline Welsh. Wild Exuberance: Harold Weston’s Adirondack Art. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press and The Adirondack Museum, 2005.
Harold Weston. Text by Ben Wolf. Philadelphia: Art Alliance Press; London: Associated Univ. Press, 1978. Includes interview with Faith Weston.
Mackinnon, Anne. “A Passionate Nature: The Consummate Art of Harold Weston.” Adirondack Life 25, no. 1 (Jan. –Feb. 1994): 28–35, 65–66.
Mumford, Lewis. “The Art Galleries: The Treasury’s Murals.” New Yorker, 17 Oct. 1936, 70–71.
Passantino, Erika D., ed. The Eye of Duncan Phillips: A Collection in the Making. Washington, D.C.: Phillips Collection, in association with Yale Univ. Press, 1999.
Phillips, Duncan. The Artist Sees Differently: Essays Based upon the Philosophy of a Collection in the Making. 2 vols. New York: E. Weyhe; Washington, D.C.: Phillips Memorial Gallery, 1931.
Phillips, Stephen B. Twentieth-Century Still-Life Painting from the Phillips Collection. Washington, D.C.: The Phillips Collection, 1997.
A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by Harold Weston (1894-1972). Text by Jean C. Harris, South Hadley, Mass.: Mount Holyoke College, 1975.
Rosenfeld, Paul. “Harold Weston’s Adventure.” New Republic, 31 Dec. 1930, 190–91.
Weston, Harold. “A Painter Speaks.” Magazine of Art 32 (Jan. 1939): 16–21. Reprinted in Painters and Sculptors of Modern America, introduction by Monroe Wheeler, 85–88. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1942.
Weston, Harold. Freedom in the Wilds: An Artist in the Adirondacks. Syracuse University Press, 2008.
Weston, Harold F. “Persian Caravan Sketches.” National Geographic Magazine, 39:4 (Apr. 1921): 417–68. Includes 29 photographs by Weston.
Harold Weston: A Bigger Belief in Beauty. A documentary film directed by Kevin Burget and Rebecca Foster. Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y.: Adirondack Museum, 2005.
ARCHIVAL SOURCES
Harold Weston Manuscript Collection, George Arents Research Library, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.
Harold Weston Manuscript Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Harold Weston Papers, 1916–72, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.