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May 14, 2024 · In the first year after Willard Metcalf painted his iconic work "Kalmia," it was seen - and lauded - often. He created the piece during his initial summer at Miss Florence Griswold's Old Lyme ...
May 11, 2024 · Although Metcalf's landscapes of the late 1880s demonstrate increasing skill in rendering effects of light with painterly brushwork, he remained partial to a Barbizon sensibility and did not at this time emulate Monet's impressionist technique.Metcalf returned to the Boston area in December 1888 but before long moved on to Philadelphia and then ...
May 5, 2024 · Willard Metcalf dry, broken brushstrokes that often allow the bare canvas to show through. For an exhibition in I925, one writer noted that the constant theme in Metcalf's paintings "is the robust landscape ofN ew England divested of its rigors." For Mr. Metcalf does not deal in asperities. He was born to please.
May 8, 2024 · The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has announced “Shifting Boundaries: Perspectives on American Landscapes,” an exhibition featuring works by American painters such as William Metcalf, Dwight Tryon, Winslow Homer and Abbott Thayer who created profoundly beautiful views of the New England landscapes where they lived and worked. “Shifting Boundaries” looks at these works ...
17 hours ago · Attracted by the local scenery, the prospect of cheap rent and the positioning between Boston and New York City, Ranger’s peers were soon joining him. After Hassam arrived in 1903, America’s Barbizon evolved into America’s Giverny, becoming the outpost for Impressionist masters like Willard Metcalf and William Chadwick.
May 7, 2024 · Willard Leroy Metcalf (1858 – 1925) American, Valley in Spring, 1920, Oil on canvas, 35 7/8 x 36 inches, The Dayton Art Institute, Gift of Mr. John B. Hayward, 1929.3. The pastel palette, feathery brushwork and soft light are characteristic of Willard Metcalf’s impressionistic paintings. This painting’s tranquil mood and delicate, airy ...
5 days ago · Lisa N. Peters (John Henry Twachtman Catalogue Raisonné) and Betty Krulik (Willard Leroy Metcalf Catalogue Raisonné Project), Chairs Today scholars on art created in the US from the colonial era through 1945, grapple with new theoretical and ontological inquiries—especially as we reckon anew with the nation’s history of imperialism ...
