Willard Metcalf

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Willard Leroy Metcalf (July 1, 1858 – March 9, 1925) was an American artist. Born at Lowell, Massachusetts, he was a pupil of the Massachusetts Normal Art School, of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and of the 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 Womans Art School, Cooper Union, New York, and in the Art Students League, New York. In 1893 he became a member of the American Water Color Society, New York. Generally associated with American Impressionism, he is also remembered for his New England landscapes and involvement with the artists' colony at Old Lyme, Connecticut.

[edit] References

• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.