Details

Willard Leroy Metcalf (1858-1925) On the River signed and dated 'W.L. Metcalf. 1903' (lower left)--signed again and inscribed with title (on the stretcher) oil on canvas 21¼ x 25½ in. (54 x 64.8 cm.)

Provenance

Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1907.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 18 October 1945, lot 86.
Babcock Galleries, New York, by 1949.
Katherine Vail Marsters, New York.
By descent to the present owner, 1977.

Literature

"Ten American Painters," American Art News, vol. IV, no. 23, March 17, 1906, p. 3.
Cincinnati Museum, Fourteenth Annual Exhibition of American Art, exhibition catalogue, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1907, p. 9, no. 34.
E. de Veer, R.J. Boyle, Sunlight and Shadow: The Life and Art of Willard L. Metcalf, New York, 1987, pp. 68, 89, 228, fig. 71, illustrated.

Exhibited

New York, Montross Gallery, The Ten American Painters, March 14-31, 1906.
Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati Art Museum, Fourteenth Annual Exhibition of American Art, May 18-July 17, 1907, no. 34.
(Possibly) Boston, Massachusetts, St. Botolph Club, 1907.
Dayton, Ohio, Circulating Gallery of the Dayton Art Institute, 1949, on loan.