J. Alden Weir, 1908 - The Building of the Dam - fine art print

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The masterpiece The Building of the Dam was created by J. Alden Weir in 1908. The version of the artwork was painted with the size of Framed: 93,5 x 118,5 x 7,5 cm (36 13/16 x 46 5/8 x 2 15/16 in); Unframed: 76 x 101,6 cm (29 15/16 x 40 in) and was made with the technique of oil on canvas. The masterpiece has the following text as inscrption: signed lower right: "J. Alden Weir". This piece of art can be viewed in in the collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art. We are glad to reference that this masterpiece, which is part of the public domain is included with courtesy of The Cleveland Museum of Art. : Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund. Furthermore, alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape and has a ratio of 4 : 3, meaning that the length is 33% longer than the width.

Available product materials

We offer a range of different materials and sizes for every product. That is why, we allow you to choose among the following options:

• The acrylic glass print: A glossy print on acrylic glass, often referred to as a fine art print on plexiglass, will transform your favorite original into marvellous home decoration. Your work of art will be made with the help of state-of-the-art UV direct print technology. The major benefit of a plexiglass print is that sharp contrasts and minor details will be visible with the help of the delicate gradation.
• Poster (canvas material): The poster is a printed sheet of cotton canvas with a granular texture on the surface. The poster print is suited for framing the art replica in a custom frame. Please keep in mind, that depending on the size of the poster print we add a white margin of something between 2-6 cm round about the print, which facilitates the framing with a custom frame.
• Aluminium print (aluminium dibond): An Aluminium Dibond print is a print with an impressive depth effect. The bright and white parts of the original work of art shine with a silky gloss but without any glow. Colors are vivid and luminous, the fine details appear crisp, and you can notice a matte appearance of the fine art print.
• The canvas print: A printed canvas, which should not be mistaken with a real artwork painted on a canvas, is a digital copy printed from a UV direct printing machine. Hanging your canvas print: Canvas prints are relatively low in weight, meaning that it is easy to hang up your Canvas print without extra wall-mounts. Canvas prints are suitable for any type of wall.

Important legal note: We try everything to describe our products with as many details as possible and to demonstrate them visually in our shop. Nonetheless, the pigments of the printing material, as well as the imprint might vary marginally from the representation on the device's screen. Depending on the screen settings and the nature of the surface, color pigments might not be printed as realistically as the digital version depicted here. Given that all our are printed and processed manually, there might as well be slight discrepancies in the motif's exact position and the size.

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Artpiece background information

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This painting shows the construction of the Scotland Dam, built between 1907 and 1909 on the Shetucket River near the artist's home in Windham, Connecticut. Unlike painters from the Ash Can School, such as John Sloan and George Bellows who tended to portray more sordid views of urban life, Weir hid a potentially ugly industrial scene behind trees and foliage. He used a silver palette with pastel blues and greens to mask the construction equipment behind a veil of natural beauty. Early in his career, Weir was interested in drawing and design and used a conservatively dark palette. Under the influence of his friends Albert Pinkham Ryder, John Henry Twachtman, and Theodore Robinson, the artist's palette lightened in the late 1880s, and by the 1890s he had developed his Impressionist style.