Weir Farm National Historic Site located in Wilton is one of the 2020 picks for America’s Beautiful National Parks Quarter Dollar Series issued by the United States Mint. This year marks the eleventh year of the program and features the next five quarters.
The United States Mint's America the Beautiful Quarters® honoring Weir Farm National Historic Site are now available for purchase!
Click the link HERE to visit the Mint's catalog and see all of the quarters in the collection, including Weir Farm.
Historic places also featured on the coin in 2020 include National Park of American Samoa, Salt River Bay National Historic Park and Ecological Preserve (U.S. Virgin Islands), Marsh-Billings Rockefeller National Historic Park (Vermont) and Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve (Kansas).
This reverse (tails) design of the coin portrays an artist, wearing a painter’s smock, painting outside Julian Alden Weir’s studio at Weir Farm. It is inspired by various images of the studio and Weir’s paintings created on the property, as well as descriptions of Weir and his fellow artist’s creative inspiration from the rural environment.
Weir Farm, currently closed due to COVID-19, is the home and studio of America's beloved Impressionist, J. Alden Weir and is set on 60 picturesque acres.
*image courtesy Weir Farm