Weber Furlongs' close association in Bolton Landing, New York with the sculptor David Smith has had a lasting influence on the hamlet to this very day and she is known to be responsible for bringing him to the farm he purchased there with his wife sculptor and painter Dorothy Dehner. Weber Furlong's works are on permanent display at the Bolton Landing Museum.
The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, New York has displayed the works of Wilhelmina Weber Furlong since 1966 where they hosted a major solo retrospective of the artist's work after her death in 1962. In Spring of 2012, Wilhelmina Weber Furlong became the subject of a documentary film based on the biography on the life of the popular early American woman modernist. A permanent display of the work of Wilhelmina Weber Furlong is at the
Bolton Landing, New York town history museum. On August 7, 2012 the Crandall Public Library in
Glens Falls, New York hosted a documentary film crew and lecture on Wilhelmina Weber Furlong featuring James K. Kettlewell, Professor Emeritus at Skidmore College and retired curator of the Hyde Collection, where they displayed one of Wilhelmina Weber Furlong's lost works. , New York On July 23, 2013 the
City Glens Falls, New York Common Council approved a resolution to place a New York State historical marker in downtown Glens Falls near City Hall. The resolution stated: "Weber Furlong (1878–1962) One of America's great and influential artists of the twentieth century, Weber Furlong was among the first to champion the Modern art movement. The final years of her life were spent in Glens Falls, where she lived and taught near this site at her Ridge Street studio until her death in 1962.
Placed for the Warren County Bicentennial." 2019 Lake George, New York "Two Centuries of Art from Bolton Landing" Bolton Historical Society Museum. Landscapes Lost and Found. 2019 Dublin, Ireland Weber Furlong Her Life. Her Art. Her Legacy. The exhibition presented by Clint Weber, Director and Curator of The Weber Furlong Collection of Modern Art; Mona Blocker Garcia of the International Woman’s Foundation and artist Martin De Porres Wright, in association with the Irish Georgian Society. Knight of Glin Exhibition Room, City Assembly House, South William Street. Dublin, Ireland. 2022 Manhattan New York, The Art Students League of New York. Proudly presented To Live is to Paint: Wilhelmina Weber Furlong, Dorothy Dehner and American Modernism July 21 – August 23, 2022 Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery. Wilhelmina Weber Furlong, Dorothy Dehner and American Modernism, curated by the League’s 2022 guest curator, Jillian Russo PhD. To Live is to Paint follows Furlong’s and Dehner’s artistic influences from their extensive travels to their close friendships throughout the 1920s and 1930s. 2022 Austin, Texas Prizer arts and Letters community organization and gallery. Wilhelmina Weber Furlong. Struggled to be taken seriously as an artist, both because of her gender and because of resistance to the modernist movement. She persisted, stating that, “
To live is to paint. ==References==