


As Weir became increasingly interested in landscape painting after the purchase of his farm in Branchville, Connecticut (now a National Historic Site), he began to work in a more impressionistic mode, encouraged by his experiments in pastel and watercolor, as well as by his friendships with John Twachtman and Theodore Robinson. Weir gradually adopted the looser brushwork of the impressionist style, altering perspective and flattening forms while choosing to work in a softer color palette than that favored by the more radical practitioners of impressionism. His landscape works include scenes of the western Connecticut hills; Cornish, New Hampshire; the factory landscapes of central Connecticut; and the environs of Cos Cob, Connecticut, where he taught a summer painting class.