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J. Alden Weir (1852–1919)
The Red Bridge 1895
Oil on canvas; 24 1/4 x 33 3/4 in. (61.6 x 85.7 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Mrs. John A. Rutherfurd, 1914 (14.141)
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After seeing the 1877 French Impressionist exhibition in Paris, Weir grumbled that it was "worse than the Chamber of Horrors." Much later, working in the Connecticut countryside under the influence of Twachtman, Hassam, and Robinson and inspired by Japanese prints, he converted to Impressionism. In this canvas he captured the severe industrial form of a new iron truss bridge, covered with red priming paint, over the Shetucket River in Windham. The veneer of restrained broken brushwork over solid forms epitomizes Weir's conservative Impressionism.
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