Excerpt from Julian Alden Weir: An Appreciation of His Life and Works; With Illustrations<br><br>We have lost in Weir a painter of a great tradition an? Artist absolutely individual and independent of any yet one who belongs in the company of all those of truthful observation and personal expression in pai who have cared more for true and fine relations of and tone and of light and shade, and for true and fine terpretations of beauty and character in the visible wo than for the formal analysis of abstract esthetic principles and the repetition of formulas for classical design. Weir was beloved by all factions in the rather overheated air of dis putation in which, strange to say, art seems to flourish.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.