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Signed l.r.c. W.L. Metcalf (Willard Leroy Metcalf, American, 1858-1925), Metcalf was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, began his art studies at the Lowell Institute and apprenticed to the painter George Loring Brown. For a while he illustrated articles for Century Magazine then, in 1883, he traveled to France to study at the Julian Academie under Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre. After a few years in France, Metcalf slowly moved away from the painting style being taught in the Academie, embracing instead the plein-air Impressionist ideal that revered painting from life as the core of good art. In 1888, Metcalf returned to America and mounted his first one-man show, which was praised critically but was not a financial success. At this juncture, Metcalf decided to leave Boston for New York, where he continued work as an illustrator and did portrait commissions, as well as taught at the Art Students League and Cooper Union. In 1896 he won the Webb Prize from the Society of American Artists, but it would be his last time exhibiting with this organization. He and his artist friends were becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the overly-crowded settings and selection standards of the organization, feeling the standards had been lowered and were being compromised. Metcalf and other notable artists resigned and formed "The Ten American Painters", a/k/a "The Ten", made up of Childe Hassam, John Twatchman, Metcalf, Frank Benson, J. Alden Weir, Thomas Dewing, Robert Reid, Edward Simmons, Edmund Tarbell, and Joseph De Camp. In 1905, William Merritt Chase was asked to join the group, replacing Twatchman on that artist`s death. "The Ten" were the embodiment of the American Impressionist movement, and held yearly exhibitions until 1919. Despite his affiliation with them, Metcalf struggled for continued financial and critical success for most of his life; it wasn`t until late in his career that his unique vision of the New England countryside took hold with critics and profited him financially. His New England scenes are done in a personal style whose roots were founded in the tenets of American Impressionism that last to this day. Sight size 22"h x 18 1/4"w The paint surface with craquelure extending to the canvas surface. Various areas of minor paint flaking and chipping along the upper edges of the canvas. More extensive craquelure to the upper right quadrant of canvas, with several areas of wax repair to cracks so paint does not flake off.
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