Edwin Lord Weeks
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Edwin Lord Weeks (1849 – November 1903) was an American painter, noted for his Orientalist works.
Life
Weeks was born in Boston, in 1849. His parents were spice and tea merchants from Newton, and as such they were able to finance their son's youthful interest in painting and travelling. As a young man Weeks visited the Florida Keys to draw, and also travelled to Surinam in South America. His earliest known paintings date from 1867 when he was eighteen years old, although it is not until his Landscape with Blue Heron, dated 1871 and painted in the Everglades, that Weeks started to exhibit a dexterity of technique and eye for composition—presumably having taken professional tuition.
In 1872, Weeks relocated to Paris, becoming a pupil of Léon Bonnat and Jean-Léon Gérôme.[1]
After his studies in Paris, Weeks emerged as one of America's major painters of Orientalist subjects. Throughout his adult life he was an inveterate traveler and journeyed to South America (1869), Egypt and Persia (1870), Morocco (frequently between 1872 and 1878), and India (1882–83).
In 1895, Weeks wrote and illustrated a book of travels, From the Black Sea through Persia and India,[2][3] and in 1897 he published Episodes of Mountaineering[4] (which was preceded by the 1894 article Some Episodes of Mountaineering, by a Casual Amateur).[5]
Weeks died in Paris in November 1903.[6] He was a member of the Script error: No such module "Lang"., France, an officer of the Order of Saint Michael (Bavaria), and a member of the Munich Secession.[4]
Achievements
Weeks exhibited his work in nearly every annual Salon (Paris). He earned a Medal of Honor in 1884, then a Third Class Medal in 1889, followed by a gold medal at the 1889 International Exhibition, and finally the Legion of Honor in 1896.[7]
Gallery
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A Maratha, leaving for hunting from Gwalior Fort
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Maratha king of Gwalior at his palace
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A Maratha hunting party
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Promenade on a Maratha street
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Barge of the Maharaja Of Benares, 1883
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On The River Benares, 1883
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Along the Ghats of Mathura, 1883
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The Maharajah at the Amer Fort, 1888
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The Great Mughal And His Court Returning From The Great Mosque At Delhi India
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An Open-Air Restaurant near Wazir Khan Mosque, Lahore
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Royal Elephant at the Gateway to the Jama Masjid, Mathura
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Entering the Mosque, 1885
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Interior of a Mosque at Cordova (circa 1880), The Walters Art Museum
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The Taj Mahal, 1883, The Walters Art Museum
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Arrival of a Caravan Outside the City of Morocco
See also
References
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- ^ Telfair Museum of Art., & McCullough, H. K. (2005). Telfair Museum of Art: Collection highlights. Savannah, Ga: Telfair Museum of Art. p. 102. Template:ISBN.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Weeks, Edwin Lord (1896). From the Black Sea through Persia and India. New York: Harper & Brothers.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Review of From the Black Sea through Persia and India by Edwin Lord Weeks". The Athenaeum (3558): 10–11. January 4, 1896.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Weeks, Edwin Lord (May 1894). "Some Episodes of Mountaineering, by a Casual Amateur". Scribner's Magazine. 15 (5): 531–553.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.American Art Annual, Volume 5. MacMillan Company. 1905. pp. 124.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Two Paris Salons; American Artists Well Represented This Year. Some of the Principal Exhibits -- Edwin Lord Weeks Sends an Oriental Subject -- Many Works by Women" (PDF). The New York Times. April 19, 1903. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 30, 2021. Retrieved October 14, 2019.
Sources
- Edwin Lord Weeks, "Hindoo and Moslem", Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 91, No. 545, October 1895, pp. 651–669.
External links
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- Comprehensive site with biography, images by the artist, and more.
- Weeks Gallery at MuseumSyndicate
- Weeks at the Art Renewal Center
- Few paintings at a persian website shahrefarang.com
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