Willard Leroy Metcalf “Giverny , 1887“ oil on canvas 66 x 81,6 cm

Lowell,
Massacusetts
1858-1925
New York

 1874 Attends the Massachusetts Normal Art School, Boston. A pupil of George Loring Brown the following year.

 1877-1878 Attends the Lowell Institute.

 1879-1883 Active in New England and new Mexico.

 1883-1889 Attends the Académie Julian in Paris. Summer stays in Brittany and Normandy, probably in Giverny in 1885 and 1886.

 Années 1890 Works as an illustrator in New york.

 1890-1891 Teaches at the Art Students League in New York.

 1893-1903 Teaches at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York.

 1897 Founding member of Ten American.

 1903-1925 Lives and paints in new England.