ID 1360496
Lot 240 | WILLARD LEROY METCALF (1858-1925)
Estimate value
$ 100 000 – 150 000
Icebound Brook
signed and dated 'W.L. Metcalf 1922' (lower right)
oil on canvas
26 x 29 in. (66 x 73.7 cm.)
Painted in 1922.
Provenance
Milch Galleries, New York.
Gerald Brooks.
Milch Galleries, New York.
Lady E.V. Gabriel, New York.
Milch Galleries, New York, by 1946.
Rose M. Ezzell, St. Louis, Missouri.
Estate of the above, 1981.
Sale: Selkirk Galleries, St. Louis, Missouri, 2 December 1981, lot 440, sold by the above.
Jeffrey Brown Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts, 1982.
American Tradition Gallery, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1986.
Sotheby’s, New York, 1 December 1988, lot 187.
Sam Lawrence.
Spanierman Gallery, LLC, New York, 1998.
Private collection, New York.
Avery Galleries, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2009.
Literature
E. de Veer, R.J. Boyle, Sunlight and Shadow: The Art and Life of Willard L. Metcalf, New York, 1987, pp. 137, 144, fig. 180, illustrated.
R.J. Boyle, B.W. Chambers, W.H. Gerdts, Willard Metcalf (1858-1925): Yankee Impressionist, May 8-June 28, 2003, p. 137, no. 39, illustrated.
Exhibited
New York, Milch Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings by Willard L. Metcalf, February 12-March 3, 1923, no. 1.
New York, Milch Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings by Willard L. Metcalf, February 16-March 7, 1925, no. 6 (as The Winter's Mantle).
New York, The Century Association, Memorial Exhibition of Paintings by the Late Willard L. Metcalf, October 6-31, 1928, no. 2 (as Winter Mantle).
Montclair, New Jersey, Montclair Art Museum, January-February 1946, no. 24 (as Winter).
New York, Spanierman Gallery, LLC, Willard Leroy Metcalf: An American Impressionist, November 21, 1995-January 27, 1996.
Further details
This work will be included in the forthcoming Willard Leroy Metcalf Catalogue Raisonné Project Inc., committee, under the direction of Betty Krulik with Dr. Lisa N. Peters and Deborah Spanierman.
| Artist: | Willard Leroy Metcalf (1858 - 1925) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Impressionism |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Willard Leroy Metcalf (1858 - 1925) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Impressionism |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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