Selected Exhibitions
Genesis, 1925, oil on canvas.
FAITH: Art by Harold Weston, Words by Faith Borton Weston
Keene Arts
August 3 to September 3, 2023
Faith Borton Weston, who wrote prolifically in journals and letters, narrates this exhibition of 50 oil paintings, etchings, and watercolors, revealing her central and decisive place in the Weston story. “He held the paintbrush, but she held the pen.”
Events at the Gallery
August 10, 5 pm Reading of Faith & Harold’s Letters (Frank Owen and Rebecca Foster)
August 17, 7:30 pm Screening of the documentary film A Bigger Belief in Beauty and discussion with filmmakers (Kevin Burget and Rebecca Foster)
Sweep of Time (Stone Series No. 26), 1968, gouache.
HAROLD WESTON: FREEDOM IN THE WILDS
Shelburne Museum, Vermont
March 23 to August 25, 2019
Early Adirondack paintings, selections from Weston's "Stone Stories," diaries, and related ephemera illuminate the connections between the human spirit and nature.
March 24 Screening of A Bigger Belief in Beauty and discussion with the film's directors.
May 18 A conversation with John Elder and gallery tour with Rebecca Foster.
August 2 Readings from the love letters of Harold and Faith Weston by artist Frank Owen and Rebecca Foster.
Palette on Couch, 1931, oil on canvas.
THE PAINTED ENVIRONMENT: LANDSCAPES AND STILL LIFES BY HAROLD WESTON
Gerald Peters Gallery, New York
April 1 to 27, 2019
The Elm Tree, 1922, oil on canvas. Philadelphia Museum of Art.
The New Stove, 1926, oil on canvas.
RURAL MODERN: AMERICAN ART BEYOND THE CITY
Brandywine River Museum of Art
October 29, 2016 to January 22, 2017
This group exhibition traveled to the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, February 12 to May 7, 2017, under the name Cross Country: The Power of Place in American Art, 1915-1950.
Birch Tree, 1921, oil on canvas.
HAROLD WESTON: BEYOND THE KNOWN
Keene Arts
July 21 - August 21, 2016
A retrospective of over 60 paintings, drawings, etchings, and watercolors representing the artist's work, from expressionist landscapes in the 1920s, to intimate observations of nature in the 1940s, and organic abstractions in the 1960s.
Winds, Upper Ausable Lake, 1922, oil on canvas.
The Phillips Collection
MADE IN THE USA: AMERICAN MASTERS FROM THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION, 1850-1970
The Phillips Collection, 2014
"Kent's The Road Roller, Hartley's almost fauvist Mountain Lake - Autumn, Weston's Winds, Upper Ausable Lake are all thrilling masterpieces, deeply connected to the natural world, not through ordinary means of representation but a more powerful process of intimation and suggestion." Philip Kennicott, The Washington Post, March 6, 2014.
Wilderness-Marcy, Dvorak New World Symphony, Largo, 1922, oil on canvas.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: FROM NIAGARA TO YOSEMITE
Nagoya Museum, Japan, 2012-2013
Ceret - The Bridge, 1927, watercolor.
Museum of Modern Art of Ceret
A CENTURY OF SUBLIME LANDSCAPES: CERET, 1909-2009
Museum of Modern Art of Ceret, France, 2009
Harold Weston joined artists of the 20th century, including Picasso, Braque, Soutine, and Manolo, who created work in the Catalan village of Ceret. Weston was represented by several watercolors and an oil that he painted while living in the French Pyrenees from 1926 to 1929.
For more information, contact the Harold Weston Foundation.