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The Red Bridge

1895
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 769
After seeing the 1877 French Impressionist exhibition in Paris, Weir grumbled that it was “worse than the Chamber of Horrors.” Much later, working in the Connecticut countryside under the influence of friends such as Theodore Robinson and inspired by Japanese woodblock prints, he converted to Impressionism. In this canvas, he captured the severe industrial form of a new iron truss bridge, covered with red priming paint, over the Shetucket River in Windham. The fundamentally solid forms and restrained veneer of broken brushwork epitomize Weir’s conservative brand of Impressionism.

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  • Title: The Red Bridge
  • Artist: Julian Alden Weir (American, West Point, New York 1852–1919 New York)
  • Date: 1895
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 24 1/4 x 33 3/4 in. (61.6 x 85.7 cm)
  • Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. John A. Rutherfurd, 1914
  • Object Number: 14.141
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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