His artwork was called “rough and rugged as hickory stumps,” like the man himself. Friends described her as “soft, gentle, like the moss in the woods.” It was a match made in heaven, or at least the Adirondacks.
Marking the centenary of the marriage of Faith Borton and Harold Weston, a new exhibition at Keene Arts pairs the artwork of one of the foremost Adirondack painters of the 20th century with the words of the woman who cast off her upper-middle-class comforts for a passionate but ascetic existence in the mountains.
“This time, I wanted to, and she co-wrote the catalog for a 2005 exhibition at the Adirondack Museum (now Adirondack Experience), .
