[Rarebooks] FS: Julian Alden Weir American Impressionist -1921 Century Club Edition

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"Julian Alden Weir. An Appreciation of His life and Works”

Edited by J.B. Millet.
Published in New York by The Century Club in 1921.

The uncommon and elegant Century Club edition of this standard work, 
printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press (it was reprinted a year 
later by Dutton). The text includes appreciation's of Weir's work by his 
friends, including Duncan Phillips, Royal Cortissoz, Childe Hassam, and 
J.B. Millet. "An American impressionist painter and member of the Cos 
Cob Art Colony near Greenwich, Connecticut, Weir was also one of the 
founding members of "The Ten", a loosely-allied group of American 
artists dissatisfied with professional art organizations, who banded 
together in 1898 to exhibit their works as a stylistically unified 
group."

The 1920 edition of The Encyclopedia Americana noted- "Mr. Weir was one 
of the founders of the Society of American Artists, the first 
organization to rebel at all effectively against the Academy. These 
societies were later united and Mr. Weir at once refused the presidency 
of the Association of American Painters and Sculptors because it was in 
opposition to the Academy. In his later career he was identified with 
the Impressionist School. Weir's long career as an artist was marked by 
independence and naturalness."

The printer, Daniel Berkeley Updike [1860-1941], worked for the 
Riverside Press and trained as a printer, setting up his own Merrymount 
Press in 1896. He specialized in historical printing styles of the 
seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Hardcover. 8.5"x11.5", 141 pages, plus 25 black & white plates. Light 
wear, a little soil, tips rubbed. Partially unopened. $125-

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