Excerpt from Julian Alden Weir: An Essay
Since the passing so recently from our midst of J. Alden Weir, the best critical opinion, in his own country at least, has crystalized rapidly and acclaimed him with a remarkable degree of confidence as a man for the ages, as one who now enters upon a splendid destiny of imperishable and ever increasing fame. I do not feel certain that Weir will ever be one of the popular painters who are appraised at or above their real value by the general public. He never carried his heart on his sleeve, never painted pictures which correspond to "household words," never tried to entertain nor to educate the crowd, nor to organize a following and start a "movement." He was contemptuous not only of sentimentality, but of sensationalism and of the notoriety which so often passes for fame, and in his own manner of painting, so marked was his restraint that he tended to an expression of unconscious austerity. Yet he was the most approachable and genial of men. And the very essence of his art - what makes it great - what will make it immortal - is the warm and glowing lovableness which underlies the reserve. Weir believed that art is not worth all the time and talk men spend upon it if it does not stimulate to finer issues our dormant faculties for living. If the value of art is measured according to its expressional power, then the art of Weir is a very great art even if it is not entirely easy of access. It is the pure gold deep in the earth which we must dig to find, not the cheap gilding on the gaudy surface of commercial ornaments.
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