Book excerpt: The Biography defines the life of Wilhelmina Weber Furlong America's first woman modern artist. A major American artist who pioneered modern impressionistic, and still life painting, at the turn of the twentieth century's modernist movement at the Art Students League in New York.The forgotten history has been discovered through the collections of Weber's great grand nephew Clint Weber. The insight into the artist was quite evident in the life of the authors father Bernard Weber who spent his youth in Bolton Landing New York, at the art colony of Thomas and Weber Furlong.