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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:: 19412
Summer at Hadlyme
Oil on canvas
Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT.
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Painting ID:: 19413
Child in Sunlight
Oil on canvas
Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT.
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Painting ID:: 19414
Mountain Laurel
1905
Oil on canvas
New Britian Museum of American Art.
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Painting ID:: 23064
May Night (nn02)
1906
Oil on canvas
39 1/2x36 3/8"
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Painting ID:: 31976
Early Spring Afternoon-Central Park
mk77
1911
Oil on panel
36 1/8x36in
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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: | Pedro Sanchez | Ludwig Knaus | Giuseppe Benassai | George Cooke | Eldress Polly Jane Reed |
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