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Willard Metcalf
Willard Leroy Metcalf (July 1, 1858 – March
9, 1925) was an American artist. Born at Lowell, Massachusetts,
he was a pupil of the Massachusetts Normal Art School, of the School
of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and of the Académie Julian,
Paris. After early figure-painting and illustration, he became prominent
as a landscape painter. He was one of the Ten American Painters
who in 1897 seceded from the Society of American Artists. For some
years he was an instructor in the Womans Art School, Cooper Union,
New York, and in the Art Students League, New York. In 1893 he became
a member of the American Water Color Society, New York. Generally
associated with American Impressionism, he is also remembered for
his New England landscapes and involvement with the artists' colony
at Old Lyme, Connecticut.
The paintings are the excellent portrayal of the events and scenes
that we see around us. The painters are the best cameras of the
world. They reproduce many different types of pictures. They even
draw imaginary pictures that do not exist in this world. We tend
to use both thinned oil paints and dense oil paints. Masterpieces
can be dyed more than once, but each time it may be different from
the existing paintings.h
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