Metcalf, Willard

Title

Metcalf, Willard

Cornish Dates

1909 to 1920

Accompanied By

Cornish Residence(s)

Platt House
Brook Place
Grist Mill Cottage
Poins House

Invited By

Birth

1 Jul 1858
Lowell, Massachusetts

Death

9 Mar 1925
New York, New York

Non-Cornish Residence

New York, New York

Spouse

Marguerite Hodge
Married 11 Sep 1903

Henrietta McCrea Metcalf
Married 10 Jan 1911

Relations

Henrietta McCrea Metcalf (wife)
Rosalind Metcalf (daughter)
Addison Metcalf (son)

Profession

Painter
Illustrator

Location Studied

Massachusetts Normal Art School
School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)
Académie Julian
Lowell Institute

Studied Under

George Loring Brown
William Rimmer
Gustave Boulanger
Jules-Joseph Lefebvre

Affiliations

The Ten; Giverny
Cooper Union (instructor)
Art Students League (instructor)
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Old Lyme art colony
Scribner's
Century

Awards

Webb Prize (1896)
Gold, Corcoran Gallery of Art (1907)
Gold, Panama-Pacific Exposition (1915)

Sources

MacAdam, Barbara J., and Willard Leroy Metcalf, Winter’s Promise: Willard Metcalf in Cornish, New Hampshire, 1909-1920 (Hanover, NH: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 1999).

University Art Galleries, University of New Hampshire, A Circle of Friends: Art Colonies of Cornish and Dublin (Dublin NH: University of New Hampshire, 1985), 95-96.

"Willard Metcalf," Terra Foundation, accessed 27 August 2020.

Willard Metcalf - Wikipedia

Citation

“Metcalf, Willard,” The Cornish Colony Compendium, accessed October 10, 2026, https://cornishcolony.org/items/show/465.