Weidenaar was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan where he studied at the Kendall School of Design. He also studied with Jackson Lee Nesbitt at the Kansas City Art Institute from 1938 to 1940. He received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1944 and a Louis Comfort Tiffany scholarship in 1949. He was elected to the National Academy in 1949 and was later raised to full acadamician status. The grants allowed Weidenaar to travel and record his impressions of other countries, particularly Mexico.
He created 212 prints, working primarily on copper with all the intaglio processes. But it is his devotion and sensitivity to mezzotint that has resulted in a unique and lasting contribution to a medium which was at the time neglected. His works have won numerous prizes and are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Smithsonian, the Nelson-Atkins and the Library of Congress.

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