Biography metcalf willard

Metcalf was born on July I, 1858, in Lowell, Massachusetts, and died on March 9, 1925, in New York City. He was in Old Lyme, 1905-07; Leete's Island periodically, 1908-09; Waterford, summers, 1910-c.

1915; and northwestern Ct. periodically 1910-25.

Beginning in 1904, Willard Metcalf kept a scrapbook of newspaper clippings and magazine notices of his exhibitions and prizes.

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On the inside cover he had written, "A partial history of the Renaissance," an allusion to the new direction his art had taken in 1904, when he was forty-six years old. He seems to have determined in about 1903 to confront nature as it was in New England.

"He would leave the city as if for a campaign," the art critic Royal Cortissoz reported, "and bring back his sheaves with something of the air of a fighter who had conquered another step in his march." In 1904 he painted mostly near Boothbay, Maine, living at times in a tent beside the Damariscotta River, and when he exhibited twenty-one paintings (not all