Twelve Dozen Views Of Weir Farm

WILTON — The Weir Farm Trust and the National Park Service is presenting the work of Ann Huey through September 26 as its next offering in the “Artists at Weir Farm” exhibition series at Weir Farm National Historic Site.

 As a 2001 participant in the Weir Farm Trust’s artist in residence program, Ms Huey completed a number of paintings including one large wall piece consisting of 144 views of Weir Farm. This piece as well as several portraits will be on exhibit.

Gallery hours are from 8:30 am to 5 pm Wednesday through Sunday in the Weir Farm Visitor Center, 735 Nod Hill Road. 

Descending from Viking barbarians, Royal Scots, Irish Pig wranglers, German preachers, farmers and violin makers, born and raised in southeast Texas, Ms Huey chooses to tell silly, exaggerated stories through the portraits of people, places and things she paints. While in residency at Weir Farm she focused on painting the “bits of nature we squash every day – creeping, climbing, flying, rotting, buzzing bits.” A humorous collection of tiny acrylic paintings were completed on site and combined to create “144 Views of Weir Farm,” a collage of images depicting incidental details of the farm.

Weir Farm National Historic Site, Connecticut’s only National Park Site, preserves the home and workplace of J. Alden Weir (1852-1919), a leading figure in American art and the development of American Impressionism. The house, studios, farm buildings and landscape integral to Weir’s artistic vision have survived largely intact, making it one of the finest remaining sites of American Impressionism. Tours of the site include the historic studios of Weir and his son-in-law, the sculptor Mahonri Young.

For directions and information call 203-834-1896.