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Weir Farm National Historic Site

Weir Farm National Historic Site: A Wintertime Art History Tour Includes New England Hardwoods

What the Eastern part of our great country lacks in iconic landscape parks - Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, or Yosemite - it makes up for with important historic and cultural parks that are equally as iconic in their own way. As the only national park unit dedicated to American painting, Weir Farm fits that bill.

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Down in the Sunken Garden

Located in Connecticut, Weir Farm National Historic Site honors the efforts of J. Alden Weir, a 19th-Century painter, to create a refuge for artists in a bucolic setting.

As was the case then, artists are welcome to roam the grounds and paint the landscape in the tradition of the many artists that have worked at the farm in the past.

The Sunken Garden was added to the property in the 1940s.

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