“Lost” paintings by Weston: See http://www.haroldweston.org/lost1.html “Theories and explanations about paintings are for me usually unsatisfactory. The important or final things can only be experienced from the work itself.” “Weston on Weston,” Magazine of Art, January 1939, reprinted in Wolf, Harold Weston, 1978 (http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artist/?id=5342) “Painting is like going to bed with an idea, an experience or impression which means something to you.” “Weston on Weston,” Magazine of Art, January 1939, reprinted in Wolf, Harold Weston, 1978 (http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=27568) ... influential American modernist painter whose work included impressionism, realism and abstraction, as well as a highly regarded political activist. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Weston) Harold Weston was born on February 14, 1894 in Merion, Pennsylvania. He was stricken with polio when he was 16, and yet overcame his disability through sheer determination and will. He took to drawing on a trip to Europe, where he attended school in Switzerland and Germany. A much traveled artist in his life, Weston absorbed the many influences that surrounded and impacted him, including the color and light of the Middle East, where he served as a hospitality liaison with the British Army in Baghdad, and a secluded one-room cabin and studio that he built near St. Huberts, New York, where he reenergized himself as a painter. Although Harold Weston’s style changed throughout his career, he continually tried to capture the emotional essence of experience. Indeed, for Weston, his sympathetic response to his subject took precedence over depicting visual reality. Winds, Upper Ausable Lake was executed in isolation at the artist’s studio in New York. It typifies Weston’s early expressionist style. Boldly simplified, the painting has exaggerated rhythms and economical... http://www.phillipscollection.org/collection/browse-the-collection?id=2123 undefined

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