Willard Metcalf
Willard Leroy Metcalf (July 1, 1858March 9, 1925) was an American painter born in
Lowell, Massachusetts. He studied at the
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and later attended
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 Women's Art School,
Cooper Union,
New York, and in the
Art Students League, New York. In 1893 he became a member of the
American Watercolor Society, New York. Generally associated with
American Impressionism, he is also remembered for his New England landscapes and involvement with the
Old Lyme Art Colony at
Old Lyme, Connecticut and his influential years at the
Cornish Art Colony.
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