Willard LeRoy Metcalf

Mountain Pastures - Vermont

1924

A fine New England Cape Cod landscape by American artist Aldro Thompson Hibbard (1886-1972). Hibbard was born in Falmouth, MA, studied at the Massachusetts College of Art and at the Boston Museum School with artists such as Edmond Tarbell, Frank W. Benson, Joseph R. DeCamp, and later became one of the founders of the Rockport Art Colony, living on Cape Ann in Massachusetts and summering in Jamaica...

A fine impressionist oil painting of the boat shop by Italian American artist Antonio Cirino (1889-1983). Cirino was born in Italy and moved to the United States, attending the Rhode...

A fine impressionist landscape of a winter stream by American artist Jonas Lie (1880-1940). Lie was born in Moss, Norway to an accomplished Norwegian engineer and an American mother. Named after his uncle, a novelist and close friend of Henrik Ibsen, Jonas went to Paris to live with his uncle in 1892, after his father's death. Surely it was here, the twelve year-old boy was influenced by the creative spirit found in his uncle's home. In 1893, Jonas moved to New York City, where he took evening classes at Cooper Union, the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League while working designing fabric patterns for a textile company to raise money to support his education. After the completion of his education, Lie spent most of his summers along the New England coast and Canada. Here he would paint bright, impressionistic harbor scenes and rocky, coastal views, which he would exhibit regularly. The landscapes and coastal paintings Lie created in New England can be characterized by a facile, broad handling of pigment and an impressionistic sense of light and air. was a prolific painter, known for his coastal views of New England and New York scenes. He became the president of the National Academy of Design from 1935 to 1939, a year before his death. Lie was also known for a series of paintings of the last days of construction of the Panama Canal in 1913. These paintings were given to the United States Military Academy...

A beautiful oil landscape of Lake Sunapee, NH by German / American artist Gustave Adolphe Wiegand (1870-1957). Wiegand was born in Bremen, Germany and studied at the Royal Academy in Berlin and The Royal Academy of Dresden and also worked under Eugen Bract and William Merritt Chase in New York. He belonged to the Salmagundi Club, the Allied Artists of America, and the New York Society of painters. He became well known for his landscapes and still life paintings. Oil on canvas, signed lower right, titled on verso Springville High School Art Association partial label “Lake Sunapee N.H. Spring Morning...

Oliver Dennett Grover Grand Canal, 1926 Signed and dated lower left Oil on canvas 24 x 30 inches Grover's family relocated to Chicago during his childhood. There, he dedicated a si...

William Edward Bloomfield Starkweather Bathing Hour, Belle-en-Mer, France, 1908 Signed lower left Signed, titled and dated on verso Oil on canvas 27 x 36 inches Provenance Estate of...

Lillian Mathilde Genth Golden Harbor, Gloucester, circa 1910 Signed lower right, titled in graphite on verso Oil on canvas 20 x 25 inches Born in Philadelphia, Lillian Mathilde Gen...

Leon Foster Jones Corner of my Garden, 1902 Signed and dated lower left Oil on canvas 26 x 25 inches Provenance Goldfield Galleries, Los Angeles, California Private Collection, Virg...