- Weir Farm National Historic Site 2020 quarter design
- 52nd overall in the America the Beautiful Quarters® Program
- Minted at the Philadelphia Mint
- Composed of 99.9 percent silver
- Mintage limit: 20,000
The 2020 America the Beautiful Five Ounce Silver Uncirculated Coin™— Weir Farm National Historic Site is the second release of 2020 in the America the Beautiful Quarters® Program.
The reverse design 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 artists’ creative inspiration from the rural environment. Inscriptions are “WEIR FARM,” “CONNECTICUT,” “2020,” “E PLURIBUS UNUM, ” and “A NATIONAL PARK FOR ART.”
Weir Farm includes a 60-acre cultural landscape consisting of 15 historic structures including houses, barns, studios, and outbuildings. The landscape features bedrock outcrops, historic gardens, stone terraces, specimen trees, orchards, fields, miles of stone laid walls, a pond, and hundreds of historic painting sites. The artistic tradition at Weir Farm is kept alive through a variety of Art in the Park programs, free art supplies, large frames in the landscape to recreate paintings, night painting, and art instruction.
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