Post by J. Stephen Clark 🏳️‍🌈 / Redsky

== Hudson River Zen == ❌ No Confederate Portraits at West Point! ❌ John Ferguson Weir, 𝘝𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘞𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘗𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵, oil on linen, 1862, New-York Historical Society, emuseum.nyhistory.org/objects/1961... #art #painting #zen

The dramatic scenery of the Hudson Highlands recorded in Weir's deep vista of a long-famous view, one enriched by associations with the Revolutionary War, was still a strategic military site in 1862. Weir, who was born and raised at West Point where his father taught drawing, chose a vantage point near the ruins of historic Fort Putnam. During the Civil War, the Highlands was the center of the era's military-industrial complex, with the United States Military Academy on the west bank and the Cold Spring foundries on the east, then engaged in producing advanced weaponry for the Union army.

aug 29, 2025, 1:39 pm • 2 0

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