RIDGEFIELD -- Larry Bowers was at Weir Farm, bottle of animal hide glue in hand, fixing the furniture. "It's the stuff humans have been using for 3,000 years and it's still the best," Bowers said of ...
Living on the bucolic New England farm he purchased in 1882 for the price of one of his paintings and $10, American artist Julian Alden Weir adopted the en plein air (in the open air) painting style ...
WILTON — Have you always wanted to work for the National Park Service? Well now you can, as a Maintenance Worker at Weir Farm National Historic Site. Applications ...
This sounds like a lot of fun, provided there are no requirements to create a museum-worthy masterpiece. Weir Farm National Historic Site has opened the Weir Art Farm Academy in partnership with ...
WILTON -- "I have never seen the beauty of spring before, which is something to have lived and suffered for," artist Albert Pinkham Ryder once said. "The landscape and air are full of promise." Ryder ...
With the change in seasons at Weir Farm, there is also a change in name for the arts program at the historic site. . With the new name comes a new push to make the art programs at Weir Farm more a ...
One in a series of occasional stories marking the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service. WILTON, Conn. — Helping visitors see the world through an artist's eyes is a priority at Weir Farm ...