Julian Alden Weir (1852-1919),
An Autumn Stroll, 1894, oil on canvas, 70 x 40 1/8 inches. Brigham Young University Museum of Art, purchase/gift of the Mahonri M. Young Estate, 1959.
In this beautiful piece perfect for the season, artist Julian Alden Weir combines elements from impressionism, Japanese prints, and aesthetic-era decorative form in this painting of his daughter Dorothy and her stepmother Ella. Weir studied for four years in Paris, where he was repelled by the exhibitions of the impressionists. Yet, by the time he painted this work he had embraced his own version of the style. The collecting of Japanese objects was in vogue, and Weir took ideas for his paintings from his own collection of Japanese woodblock prints. This piece is currently on display in the exhibition
Shaping America at the BYU Museum of Art.