WILLARD METCALF: AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISM Art Book contains 170+ HD Paintings of Impressionist landscapes, seascapes, nocturnes, winter and genre scenes with annotations and biography. Book includes Table of Contents, World's Best Museums links and is formatted for all Nook tablets (use rotate and/or zoom feature on landscape/horizontal images for optimal viewing). Enjoy this book as, "A Coffee Table Book for the Nook!"
Willard Metcalf, or �Metty� as he was known by his friends, is considered American's foremost Impressionist landscape painter. His artistic equivalent has been compared to the poet Robert Frost as an interpreter of the New England landscape.
Born into a working class family, Metcalf began painting in 1874 at the age of 16. He spent his teen years wandering the woods in search of birds' eggs and nests. His notebooks were filled with illustrations of plants, trees and landscapes. He continued his naturalist collection throughout his life, collecting 28 drawers of birds' nests and eggs, and 65 moth and butterfly specimens. In 1875, Metcalf began his formal studies at the Massachusetts Normal Art School, the Lowell Institute and a short apprenticeship with landscape artist, George Loring Brown. The following year he opened a studio in Boston, while there he received a scholarship to the Boston Museum school, where he studied until 1878. Like many of his colleagues he turned to illustration as a means of making money to further his training. In 1881, Metcalf's work for Harper's and Century magazines led him to the Southwest, becoming one of the first artists to thoroughly document the Indians of New Mexico and Arizona. (He was made an honorary member of the Zuni tribe.) con't
