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1858 Lowell, Massachusetts - 1925 New York City. Known for: Impressionist landscape, coastal and genre-figure painting.
Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, Willard Metcalf was a well-known East Coast Impressionist painter, teacher, and illustrator who also did painting in the Southwest. He was heralded in 1925 as the "poet... Read full biography
Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, Willard Metcalf was a well-known East Coast Impressionist painter, teacher, and illustrator who also did painting in the Southwest. He was heralded in 1925 as the "poet laureate of the New England hills.". He attended Lowell and Newton public schools, apprenticed to a... Read full biography
Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, Willard Metcalf was a well-known East Coast Impressionist painter, teacher, and illustrator who also did painting in the Southwest. He was heralded in 1925 as the "poet laureate of the New England hills.". He attended Lowell and Newton public schools, apprenticed to a wood engraver, and studied landscape painting with George Loring Brown. He attended the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and life classes at Lowell Institute. He did much work in the Southwest, and as... Read full biography
Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, Willard Metcalf was a well-known East Coast Impressionist painter, teacher, and illustrator who also did painting in the Southwest. He was heralded in 1925 as the "poet laureate of the New England hills.". He attended Lowell and Newton public schools, apprenticed to a wood engraver, and studied landscape painting with George Loring Brown. He attended the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and life classes at Lowell Institute. He did much work in the Southwest, and as early as 1881, was in Santa Fe. His illustrations of the Zuni Indians for Frank Cushing's ethnological studies appeared in "Century Magazine" in 1882 and 1883, and other Pueblo illustrations were in "Harper's Magazine." . Sales from his illustration work... Read full biography
Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, Willard Metcalf was a well-known East Coast Impressionist painter, teacher, and illustrator who also did painting in the Southwest. He was heralded in 1925 as the "poet laureate of the New England hills.". He attended Lowell and Newton public schools, apprenticed to a wood engraver, and studied landscape painting with George Loring Brown. He attended the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and life classes at Lowell Institute. He did much work in the Southwest, and as early as 1881, was in Santa Fe. His illustrations of the Zuni Indians for Frank Cushing's ethnological studies appeared in "Century Magazine" in 1882 and 1883, and other Pueblo illustrations were in "Harper's Magazine." . Sales from his illustration work financed Metcalf's travels in Europe from 1883 to 1889. He studied in Paris at the Julian Academy and was exposed primarily to traditional... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art Media
- •Crayon, Crayola Drawing
- •Gouache
- •Ink
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Pastel Painting/Drawing
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
- •Woodblock, Woodcut, Wood Engraving
Art Style
- •Impressionism Before 1940
- •Realist, Representational, Naturalist Style
- •Tonalist, Tonalism
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Barnyard Fowl, Chickens, Poultry, Roosters
- •Botanics, Plant Life
- •Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
- •Gardens, Garden Scenes
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Indian Figure Prior to 1940
- •Indians, Native Americans
- •Landscape
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
- •New York City
- •Pastoral Landscape
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Snowscene, Winter Landscape
- •Street Scenes, Street Genre
- •Townscape, Village Scenes
- •Urban Landscape, Cityscape
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Arizona Before 1945
- •Boothbay Harbor, Maine
- •Cape Ann, Massachusetts: Gloucester, Rockport, North Shore
- •Europe
- •Giverny, France
- •Italy Before World War I
- •Litchfield, Connecticut
- •New Mexico Before 1940
- •Old Lyme, Connecticut
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
- •White Mountains, New Hampshire
Art Association
- •American Watercolor Society, Painters in Watercolor
- •Boston Art Club
- •National Academy of Design, Elected Member
- •Society of American Artists, New York
- •Society of Illustrators-
- •St. Botolph Club, Boston
- •The Ten/Ten American Painters
Art Teacher
- •George Loring Brown
- •Jules-Joseph Lefebvre
- •Otto Grundmann
Art School
- •Academie Julian, Paris, Student
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
- •Art Students League of New York, Teacher
- •Cooper Union Art School, Cooper School of Design, Student
- •Lowell Institute-Boston, Student
- •School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •Jennie Sesnan Gold Medal, The Pennsylvania Academy
- •Norman Wait Harris Silver Medal, Chicago Art Institute
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
- •Daniel J Terra Collection
- •John & Dolores Beck Collection
- •Pfeil Collection-Impressionists
- •Rita and Daniel Fraad Collection
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •CENTURY MAGAZINE Illustrator
- •Figure Specialty
- •Genre Specialty
- •HARPER'S WEEKLY, BAZAAR, MONTHLY Illustrator/Photos
- •Illustration Specialty
- •SCRIBNER'S Magazine Illustrator and/or Photographer
- •Sherwood Studio Building, New York, Resident
- •Snowscene Specialty
- •Tenth Street Studio Building Resident, New York
Artist Colony
- •Cornish Art Colony, New Hampshire
- •Cos Cob Colony
- •Grez-sur-Loing, France
- •New Hope, Pennsylvania
- •Old Lyme Artist Colony
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •AskART Panama Pacific Expo
- •Louisiana Purchase Expo, St. Louis World's Fair 1904
- •Panama Pacific Exhibition of 1915
- •World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1892-1893
Exhibition of Art Association
- •American Watercolor Society, Painters in Watercolor-
- •Boston Art Club-
- •Lotos Club
- •Society of Illustrators
- •St. Botolph Club, Boston-
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
- •Paris Salons
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts