Artist
Centurion, 1917–1925
Born 1 July 1858 in Lowell, Massachusetts
Died 9 March 1925 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Proposed by Julian Alden Weir and Harold G. Henderson
Elected 3 March 1917 at age fifty-eight
Proposer of:
Century Memorial
Another of our American landscape painters is on the Century’s roll tonight. Willard Leroy Metcalf pictured nature on his canvases as he saw it in his strolls through the hills and on his fishing excursions. Particularly in his snow scenes, he brought the American winter countryside vividly to life. Metcalf’s paintings hang on the walls of the Metropolitan, the Boston Museum, the National Gallery at Washington, and a dozen other of the country’s galleries of art. To the people of all these places, his pictures breathe the atmosphere of rural America.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1926 Century Association Yearbook