Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
Willard L. Metcalf
Artist
Centurion, 1917–1925
Proposed by
Julian Alden Weir and Harold G. Henderson
Julian Alden Weir and Harold G. Henderson
born
July 1, 1858
Lowell, Massachusetts
Lowell, Massachusetts
died
March 9, 1925
New York (Manhattan), New York
New York (Manhattan), New York
elected
March 3, 1917
Age fifty-eight
Age fifty-eight
buried
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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
