Willard Metcalf
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Willard Leroy Metcalf was an American painter born in Lowell, Massachusetts. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and later attended Académie Julian, Paris. After early figure-painting and illustration, he became prominent as a landscape painter.
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Cornish Hills, 1911, oil on canvas
On the Suffolk Coast, 1885
The Ten Cent Breakfast
May Night, 1906, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art
My Wife and Daughter, Willard Metcalf, 1917![The heading of Willard Metcalf's obituary, published in the New York Times after his 1925 death, recognizes his rag to riches story as typifying "the romance of American Life."[13]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Heading_of_Metcalf_Obituary.png)
The heading of Willard Metcalf's obituary, published in the New York Times after his 1925 death, recognizes his rag to riches story as typifying "the romance of American Life."[13]
Indian Summer, Vermont, oil on canvas, 1922. Dallas Museum of ArtArtists from United States 6
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Willard Leroy Metcalf was an American painter born in Lowell, Massachusetts. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and later attended Académie Julian, Paris. After early figure-painting and illustration, he became prominent as a landscape painter. He was one of the Ten American Painters who in 1897 seceded from the Society of American Artists. For some years he was an instructor in the Women's Art School, Cooper Union, New York, and in the Art Students League, New York. In 1893 he became a member of the American Watercolor Society, New York. Generally associated with American Impressionism, he is also remembered for his New England landscapes and involvement with the Old Lyme Art Colony at Old Lyme, Connecticut and his influential years at the Cornish Art Colony.
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