page_title: Weir Farm National Historic Site
hierarchical_section_title: Weir Farm National Historic Site
caption_attribution_description: English: Studio of J. Alden Weir, American impressionist painter, in the Branchville, Connecticut section of Ridgefield, Connecticut, just north of the border with Wilton, Connecticut. Weir bought the farmhouse in 1881 and later built his studio just behind it. View is looking north at the studio building. The Weir farm is now a National Historic Site operated by the National Park Service of the United States.
context_page_description: Weir Farm National Historic Site is located in Ridgefield and Wilton, Connecticut. It commemorates the life and work of American impressionist painter J. Alden Weir and other artists who stayed at the site or lived there, to include Childe Hassam, Albert Pinkham Ryder, John Singer Sargent, and John Twachtman.
  Weir Farm is one of two sites in the National Park Service devoted to the visual arts, along with Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site.
  Both sites maintain ongoing artist-in-residence programs; to date, the Weir Farm Art Center has hosted more than 150 artists for month long stays at the site. Weir Farm also runs an ongoing "Take Part in Art" program, under which visitors can create their own works on site.
  Weir Farm was recognized on the 52nd quarter in 2020 as part of the America the Beautiful Quarters Program.
context_section_description: Weir Farm National Historic Site is located in Ridgefield and Wilton, Connecticut. It commemorates the life and work of American impressionist painter J. Alden Weir and other artists who stayed at the site or lived there, to include Childe Hassam, Albert Pinkham Ryder, John Singer Sargent, and John Twachtman.
  Weir Farm is one of two sites in the National Park Service devoted to the visual arts, along with Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site.
  Both sites maintain ongoing artist-in-residence programs; to date, the Weir Farm Art Center (formerly the Weir Farm Trust) has hosted more than 150 artists for month long stays at the site. Weir Farm also runs an ongoing "Take Part in Art" program, under which visitors can create their own works on site.
  Weir Farm was recognized on the 52nd quarter in 2020 as part of the America the Beautiful Quarters Program.
caption: J. Alden Weir's studio at Weir Farm
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