Harold Weston

Harold Weston (February 14, 1894 - April 10, 1972) was an American modernist painter, based for many years in the Adirondack Mountains, whose appear in moved from expressionism to authenticity to abstraction. He was collected by Duncan Phillips (now the Phillips Collection), widely exhibited in the 1920s and 1930s, and painted murals below the Treasury Relief Art Project for the General Services Administration. In parenthood he was known for his humanitarian food relief accomplishment during World War II and his arts advocacy that led to the path of the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities Act of 1965. Weston’s most recent museum exhibition was at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont, and his most recent gallery exhibition was at Gerald Peters Gallery in New York City.