View of the Highlands from West Point

1862

Oil on linen

Overall (unframed): 20 x 34 in. (50.8 x 86.4 cm)
Framed: 31 1/4 × 44 1/2 × 3 1/2 in. (79.4 × 113 × 8.9 cm)

The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart

S-224

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.

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