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Weir Farm National Historic Site is located in Ridgefield and Wilton, Connecticut. It commemorates the life and work of American impressionist painter J. Alden Weir and other artists who stayed at the site or lived there, to include Childe Hassam, Albert Pinkham Ryder, John Singer Sargent, and John Twachtman. Weir Farm is one of two sites in the National Park Service devoted to the visual arts, along with Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site.〔http://www.nps.gov/wefa/historyculture/index.htm "Weir Farm National Historic Site Connecticut: History and Culture," National Park Service. Added 2014-05-03.〕 Both sites maintain ongoing artist-in-residence programs; to date, the Weir Farm Art Center (formerly the Weir Farm Trust) has hosted more than 150 artists for monthlong stays at the site.〔http://www.nps.gov/wefa/supportyourpark/artist-in-residence-program.htm "Artist-in-Residence program," National Park Service. Retrieved 2014-05-03.〕 Weir Farm also runs an ongoing "Take Part in Art" program, under which visitors can create their own works on site.〔http://www.nps.gov/wefa/planyourvisit/tpia.htm "Take Part in Art," National Park Service. Retrieved 2014-05-03.〕 Weir Farm will be recognized in 2020 as part of the America the Beautiful Quarters Program.〔http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/atb/"America the Beautiful Quarters Program," U.S. Mint. Retrieved 2014-05-02.〕 ==History== After considering the Keene Valley area of New York's Adirondack Mountains for a rural retreat,〔http://www.nps.gov/wefa/historyculture/stories.htm "Weir Farm National Historic Site Connecticut: Stories," National Park Service. Retrieved 2014-05-03.〕 in 1882 Weir settled instead on hilly countryside in the Branchville section of Ridgefield, acquiring a 153-acre farm there from Erwin Davis in exchange for $10 and a painting.〔http://www.nps.gov/wefa/historyculture/jaldenweir.htm "Julian Alden Weir," National Park Service. Retrieved 2014-05-02.〕 Weir and artists he hosted subsequently produced a large number of paintings depicting Ridgefield landscapes and other nearby countryside.〔http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/wefa/clr.pdf "Cultural Landscape Program for Weir Farm National Historic Site," Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation, National Park Service. Retrieved 2014-05-02.〕 Weir's daughter Dorothy Weir, a noted artist in her own right, took over management of the property following her father's death in 1919. Sculptor Mahonri Young would build a second studio at Weir Farm after the couple married in 1931.〔http://www.nps.gov/wefa/historyculture/dorothyweiryoung.htm "Dorothy Weir Young," National Park Service. Retrieved 2014-05-03.〕 Artist Sperry Andrews would later purchase the property and lead efforts to preserve the Weir Farm site, resulting in the U.S. government designating it a National Historic Site in 1990.〔http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/16/arts/design/16andrews.html?_r=0 "Sperry Andrews, 87, Painter Who Preserved Weir Home, Is Dead," New York Times, 2005-08-16. Retrieved 2014-05-02.〕 The property today includes 16 buildings on 60 acres of land,〔http://www.nps.gov/wefa/historyculture/index.htm "Weir Farm National Historic Site Connecticut: History and Culture," Retrieved 2014-05-03.〕 with the grounds including a hiking trail. Tours are offered by National Park Service rangers.〔http://www.nps.gov/wefa/photosmultimedia/historic-artwork.htm "Artwork Galleries," National Park Service. Retrieved 2014-05-02.〕 In 2007, the U.S. Department of the Interior sought Congressional approval for the National Park Service to acquire space in nearby Redding, Connecticut for administration and operational support to Weir Farm. Under existing federal law at the time, the National Park Service was authorized to secure expansion space in Ridgefield and Wilton only.〔http://www.doi.gov/ocl/hearings/110/HR1836_103007.cfm "Statement of Karen Taylor-Goodrich," U.S. Department of Interior Office of Congressional and Legislative Affairs Hearings and Testimony 110th Congress, 2007-10-30. Retrieved 2014-04-30.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Weir Farm National Historic Site」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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