WILLARD LEROY METCALF (1858-1925)

Lot 153

153

Details

WILLARD LEROY METCALF (1858-1925)
September
signed W.L. Metcalf, l.l.--oil on canvas
26 1/2 x 21 in. (65 x 53.5 cm.)

Provenance

William Macbeth Incorporated, New York
Mrs. T. M. Wardwell, Haverhill, Massachusetts

Literature

Indianapolis News, Feb. 1911

Exhibited

New York, Montross Gallery, Jan. 1911
Boston, Copley Gallery, Jan.-Feb. 1911
Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum, Special Exhibition of Landscapes by Willard L. Metcalf, Feb. 1911, no. 21. This exhibition later traveled to Indianapolis, John Herron Institute, March 1911; St. Louis, St. Louis Museum of Fine Arts, April 1911; Detroit, Detroit Institute of Art, May-Oct. 1911.
Boston, Copley Gallery, Jan.-Feb. 1912
Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, March-April 1912
Chicago, Scott Thurber Gallery, 1912
Rochester, Empire Art Gallery, The Ten, March-April 1913

Lot Essay

This painting was executed at Falls Village, Connecticut, in 1910, during Metcalf's visit to his longtime friend and fellow artist Emil Carlsen. It will be included in Elizabeth deVeer's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Metcalf's work.