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 ...

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 ...

Among national parks, Weir Farm National Historic Site is a small one, tiny when compared with a Yellowstone or an Acadia. Indeed, it is easily overlooked, though it shouldn’t be. Weir Farm may be ...

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 ...

Katherine Barrett Andrews knew her father painted a lot. That’s what he did: Sperry Andrews was a painter living, quite literally, in the footsteps of American Impressionists. But she did not know the ...

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 ...

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 ...

— -- In 1882, New York City art collector Erwin Davis became enamored with a particular still-life painting by a young American painter named Julian Alden Weir. According to the National Park ...

On warm summer days in the late 1800s, impressionist painter J. Alden Weir would wander the rolling hills of his Branchville farm, searching for inspiring landscapes to sketch en plein air. After Weir ...

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 ...