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Willard Leroy Metcalf (1858-1925)
Sandy Hollow, Manchester, Massachusetts
signed and dated 'W.L. Metcalf 77' (lower right)--inscribed with title and dated 'Aug-77' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
12¼ x 18⅛ (31.1 x 46 cm.)
Painted in 1877.
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Vose, Boston, Massachusetts.
Private collection, Amherst, Massachusetts.
[With]Taggart, Jorgensen and Putnam, Washington, D.C.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1984.
Literature
E. de Veer, R.J. Boyle, Sunlight and Shadow: The Life and Art of Willard L. Metcalf, New York, 1987, pp. 23-24, 167, 175, fig. 9, illustrated.
C.P. Wistar, La Salle University Art Museum Guide to the Collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2002, p. 79.
Exhibited
Springfield, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts; Utica, New York, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute; Manchester, New Hampshire, Currier Museum of Art; Chattanooga, Tennessee, Hunter Museum of Art, Willard Leroy Metcalf: A Retrospective, September 5, 1976-May 15, 1977, pp. 3, 14, no. 3, illustrated.
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This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being coordinated by Betty Krulik and the Willard Leroy Metcalf Catalogue Raisonné Project.

The present work is inscribed on the reverse, "Looking Towards 'Marblehead' and 'Beverly Farms.'"

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