Willard Metcalf
Willard Leroy Metcalf ( born July 1, 1858 in Lowell, Massachusetts, † March 9, 1925 in New York City ) was an American painter.
Life
The first years of life spent Metcalf on a farm in Maine. He began his artistic training at a wood cutter in Boston. The landscape painter George Loring Brown was then his teacher while he attended the Lowell Institute. Along with Brown, he spent the summer months in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, where the first landscape studies emerged. Later, he was among the first scholars of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
Because of his interest in ornithology and his drawing skills, he took in 1881 in an expedition to the southwestern United States in part. In New Mexico and Arizona, he made for the magazines Harper's and Century numerous illustrations, with its documentation of the Zuni Indian tribe found special recognition.
Due to the financial success of his illustrations Metcalf was to travel in 1883 to be able to France. In Paris he attended the Académie Julian, where he took classes with Gustave Boulanger and Jules -Joseph Lefebvre. Metcalf studied all the major art movements of the 19th century in France. In addition to the academic painting and the Barbizon school also when he met the Impressionists and visited Pont- Aven, Giverny. Together with Theodore Robinson, he founded here in the immediate vicinity of Claude Monet a American artist colony.
In a study trip to Tunis and Morocco in 1887, Metcalf painted typical street scenes. The following year, be there 's painting was appreciated Arab market in the Paris Salon with an honorable mention.
1888 Metcalf returned back to Boston, where he met with a solo exhibition of his works at the St. Botolph Club in recognition of critics. In 1891 he moved to New York. During this time, Metcalf earned his livelihood with illustrations, painting lessons and the sale of some portraits. The awaited success with his landscape paintings came only in 1896. Gloucester harbor with the painting he won at the annual exhibition of the Society of American Artists viewed the Webb Prize.
In 1897 resignation from the Society of American Artists and the creation of the artistic community Ten American Painters, for which he also designed the manifesto. For the design of the Appeal Council in New York in 1899, he received an order for two murals.
Metcalf spent the year 1904 in Maine and turned his painting again to Impressionism. He described this as his personal " Renaissance". Although he had his studio in New York, he painted mainly in New England. From 1905 he is a regular in Old Lyme, Connecticut, and some of the local artists' colony.
Royal Cortissoz, the critic for the New York Daily Tribune, was one of the main promoters of Metcalf. He repeatedly published monographic articles about the painter. From 1906 Metcalf had great success with his landscapes and audiences. His favorite subjects were landscapes in the Berkshires, Cornish (New Hampshire), Springfield (Vermont ), Casco Bay and the peninsula of Damariscotta in Maine.
Works
The Café
Street Scene, Tangiers
Garden with poppies
Indian Summer, Vermont
On the coast of Suffolk
The autumn splendor
Roadside in autumn