Irene Weir

Her grandfather Robert Walter Weir was an artist and an instructor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

[3] Weir attended Yale from 1881 to 1882 and was awarded a degree in fine arts in 1906 for cumulative artistic achievement rather than coursework.

Weir also served as director of the Slater Museum School of Art in Norwich, Connecticut.

[8] In 1923, she attended the École des Beaux Arts Américaine in Fontainebleau, France, and graduated in 1927.

[2] Weir's own works hang at Washington Cathedral, a prison in New York City, and Memorial hospital in New York as well as having been held in exhibitions from New York to London and Washington D.C.[1][2][9][10] Weir was both an educator and active participant of the art organizations such as the National Society of Etchers, Independent Artists of America, the London Lyceum Club, and the Founders Group of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas.