3dRose Weir Farm National Historic Site - Two Views of Weir Studio - Greeting Cards, 6 x 6 inches, set of 12 (gc_57569_2)

[Music] one of the things I love about this park is that we introduce people to a story that they're not really familiar with this is not the Grand Canyon or the Statue of Liberty that people have a sense of what they're coming to see oftentimes we have visitors come and they're really not quite sure who jailed and where was or what American Impressionism was and we get to expose them to a national treasure which maybe they didn't really know anything about [Music] J Alden where was the 15th son of 16 children of a professor at West Point Military Academy so there was not much money but he did go to France to study and he was certified in there called DuBose art and it came back here and raised money for himself by doing portraiture going to Europe to buy paintings for wealthy New Yorkers and by giving art classes and he gave an art class to a wealthy young woman by the name of Anna Bak