Live Auction 2750American Art
Willard Leroy Metcalf (1858-1925)
Lot 67 Property from the Estate of Katherine Hurd

Willard Leroy Metcalf (1858-1925)

On the River

Closed5 December 2013

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Willard Leroy Metcalf (1858-1925)
On the River
signed and dated 'W.L. Metcalf. 1903' (lower left)--signed again and inscribed with title (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
21¼ x 25½ in. (54 x 64.8 cm.)

Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1907.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 18 October 1945, lot 86.
Babcock Galleries, New York, by 1949.
Katherine Vail Marsters, New York.
By descent to the present owner, 1977.

Specialist note

The present work depicts the Lieutenant River in Old Lyme, Connecticut, where Willard Metcalf spent the early summer of 1903.

This painting will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the works of Willard L. Metcalf by Ira Spanierman and Richard J. Boyle.