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Rare Light is a collection of essays exploring little known facets of the life and career of a major American Impressionist painter. J. Alden Weir (1852–1919) painted some of his finest canvases while living in Windham in eastern Connecticut’s picturesque “Quiet Corner,” and this rural location played a crucial role in Weir’s artistic development. The four essays that comprise this book offer in-depth contextual information about the architecture, culture, environment, and history of the region, allowing us to see Connecticut as it appeared in Weir’s lifetime. Interweaving photos, paintings, and letters—some never before published—Rare Light documents the artist’s sense of Windham as a place for social gatherings, physical and psychic rest, and art making. Taken together, the essays celebrate the interconnectedness of art, architecture, family, history, and place. Includes essays by Charles Burlingham Jr., Rachel Carley, Anne E. Dawson, and Jamie Eves.

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As time passes, we can choose to look or turn away, but if we are intrigued, we study them and can understand history and its links to our present, and are all the better for it. That is what this book does. --A.C.V., Maine Antique Digest

As time passes, we can choose to look or turn away, but if we are intrigued, we study them and can understand history and its links to our present, and are all the better for it. That is what this book does. --A.C.V. Maine Antique Digest (10/1/2016 12:00:00 AM)

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ANNE E. DAWSON is a professor of art history at Eastern Connecticut State University. She is the author of Idol of the Moderns: Pierre-Auguste Renoir and American Painting.

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