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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:: 39109
Early Spring Afternoon,Central Park
mk140
1911
OIl on canvas
91.3x91.3cm
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Painting ID:: 44794
Gloucester Harbor
mk177
1895
Oil on cnavas
26x28in
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Painting ID:: 44799
The North Country
mk177
1923
Oil on canvas
40x45
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Painting ID:: 44811
May Night
mk177
1907
Oil on canvas
39x18
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Painting ID:: 54493
Gloucester Harbour
mk235
1895
Oil on canvas
1895
Oil on canvas
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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: | Cristofano Allori | Hildegard of Bingen | Dean Wolstenholme | Leopold Robert | Eduard Hildebrandt |
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