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Roswell Weidner (1911-1999) Dorcas in a Red Dress, 1942 Oil on canvas, 57 x 36 inches Gift of Marilyn Kemp Weidner, 2002.29. Click on image for a closer look.

Rosewell Weidner (born in Reading) was a well-known and respected Pennsylvania artist who taught portraiture at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts for most of his 57-year teaching career. This painting depicts his first wife, Doris Kunzie Weidner (also a painter). Mr. Weidner’s work had been on The State Museum’s “wish list” for decades, and this gift further strengthens The Museum’s twentieth century portrait collection.

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