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Metcalf, Willard Leroy
American Impressionist Painter, 1858-1925
American painter and illustrator. His formal education was limited, and at 17 he was apprenticed to the painter George Loring Brown of Boston. He was one of the first scholarship students admitted to the school of art sponsored by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and took classes there in 1877 and 1878. After spending several years illustrating magazine articles on the Zuni Indians of New Mexico, he decided to study abroad and in 1883 left for Paris. There he studied at the Acad?mie Julian under Jules Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger. During the five years he spent in France he became intimately acquainted with the countryside around the villages of Grez-sur-Loing and Giverny. He returned to America in 1888
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Painting ID:: 19407
Landscape in Grez
1884
Oil on canvas.
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Painting ID:: 19408
Farm Scene
Oil on canvas.
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Painting ID:: 19409
Green Idleness
1911
Oil on canvas.
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Painting ID:: 19410
The Village- September Morning
1911
Oil on canvas
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Painting ID:: 19411
Le Sillon
1911
Oil on canvas
Muskegon Museum of Art.
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Metcalf, Willard Leroy
American Impressionist Painter, 1858-1925
American painter and illustrator. His formal education was limited, and at 17 he was apprenticed to the painter George Loring Brown of Boston. He was one of the first scholarship students admitted to the school of art sponsored by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and took classes there in 1877 and 1878. After spending several years illustrating magazine articles on the Zuni Indians of New Mexico, he decided to study abroad and in 1883 left for Paris. There he studied at the Acad?mie Julian under Jules Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger. During the five years he spent in France he became intimately acquainted with the countryside around the villages of Grez-sur-Loing and Giverny. He returned to America in 1888
. Related Artists to Metcalf, Willard Leroy: | unknow artist | Adam Albrecht | Olof Hermelin | William Congreve | Jean-Germain Drouais |
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