He trusted his eyes. He told his students, “Paint what you see and forget your theories.” [http://florencegriswoldmuseum.org/collections/online/fox-chase/fox-chase-willard-metcalf/] Willard Metcalf (July 1, 1858, Lowell, Massachusetts - March 9, 1925, NY, NY) was the only child born to a blue collar, New England family that frequently moved throughout Maine and Massachusetts, finally settling in Cambridgeport, MA in 1871. By 1874, Metcalf began to produce his first paintings and attended night classes at the Massachusetts Normal Art School. In 1877, he won a scholarship to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Mark Borghi Fine Art Inc at borghi.org) Willard Leroy Metcalf, known to all his friends as "Metty" (he refused to answer to Willard), is recognized as the "poet laureate of the New England hill" for his quiet Impressionist landscapes of the farms and villages of that region. A founding member of The Ten, Metcalf brought an Impressionist's understanding of color and light to the seasonal cycles and shifts of weather that characterize New England. At the same time, his observations of nature were built on particularity; what some have called his "Yankee reticence' was in fact a naturalist's love of specifics combined with a deep understanding of the underlying pattern of the whole. For the first 20 years of his career Metcalf had been in turn a Hudson River School painter, a prolific illustrator, and a Barbizon landscapist. His early artistic gifts were noted and embraced by his parents; at age 16 he was apprenticed to the painter George Loring Brown and two years later was admitted to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School, where he studied under William Rimmer. In 1881, to earn passage to France, Metcalf worked as an illustrator of magazine articles on the Zuni Native Americans. His fascination with Zuni cosmology and ritual led him to postpone study abroad for another year to join the pioneer... [http://rompedas.blogspot.nl/search?q=metcalf] undefined

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