Click on the link to find where I found the above picture and the text below. At the website you will find links to examples of all of the artists' works.
A group of American painters from New York and Boston who exhibited together from 1898-1919. They had been members of the Society of American Artists, but resigned from this organization upon deciding that its exhibitions were too too large and conservative. Most of the Ten had studied in Paris in the 1880s and were greatly influenced by French Impressionism. The Ten were were: Thomas E. Dewing (1851-1938), Edward E. Simmons (1852-1931), Julien Alden Weir (1852-1919), John Henry Twachtman (1853-1902), Joseph R. De Camp (1858-1923), Willard L. Metcalf (1858-1925), Childe Hassam (1859-1935), Frank Benson (1862-1951), Robert Reid (1862-1929), and Edmund C. Tarbell (1862-1938); with William Merritt Chase (American, 1849-1916) taking the place of Twachtman upon his death. Although their art was not particularly radical, they were important in the context of modern art in helping to establish a tradition of setting up exhibiting organizations independent of official bodies, foreshadowing The Eight and the Armory Show.
The following blurb is a description of a book being sold about this artist and has pictures of several of his paintings in it.
The exhibition that this 152-page catalogue accompanies presents works from all phases of the career of Willard Metcalf (1858-1925), a noted American Impressionist and member of the Ten American Painters. The works included range from Metcalf’s first paintings of New England, to his images rendered in Europe and North Africa in the 1880s, to vibrant Impressionist depictions of New England for which he became known as the “poet laureate of the New England hills.” Providing a seminal contribution to scholarship on Metcalf, the catalogue provides new perspectives, presenting a study by Richard J. Boyle of Metcalf’s early development, an extensive essay by Bruce W. Chambers of the artist’s life and art, as gleaned from letters and diaries, and a consideration by William H. Gerdts of Metcalf’s role as the leading chronicler of New England in the early twentieth century. There are forty-four full-page color illustrations and documentary information on each work in the show. The exhibition was held at Spanierman Gallery, May 8-June 28, 2003
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How did I hear of Willard Metcalf? I was watching The Antiques Road Show and a man brought in one of his original works. He was given the painting about 40 years ago after he just about stepped on it in his father in-law's attic.
60+ years and counting; comfortable in my skin when alone, but uncomfortable in my skin at times when among others; progressing on social consciousness; student of dao
