He painted the sea in Maine, traveling to the Caribbean during the winter and sometimes to the Adirondacks. His family owned an estate on Prout’s Neck in Maine, and Homer moved into the carriage house. Homer eventually grew reclusive around 1880. Spring, painted on a farm, is one of them. In the spring of 1878 he produced 50 watercolors, admired for their fluidity and sparkle. He then moved to New York, but traveled frequently, painting all the way. For the next 20 years he illustrated life in Boston and rural New England as well as battlefield scenes during the Civil War. He apprenticed to a lithographer for a few years, but hated it. Winslow Homer, born in Boston, Mass., in 1837, learned watercolor at his mother’s knee. The Corcoran Gallery held a major exhibition of his work in 1925, the year he died of a heart attack at age 66. One critic called him “the poet laureate of the New England hills.” Metcalf then spent time at the Cornish Art Colony in New Hampshire, where he painted many landscapes of the changing seasons. The painting now belongs to the National Gallery of Art. But Old Lyme probably lost its charm for him when his wife ran off with one of his students that year. In 1907, Metcalf won the Corcoran gold medal for it, along with a $3,000 purchase price. May Night depicts the home of Miss Florence Griswold, who founded the Old Lyme colony. His friend Childe Hassam encouraged him to join the Old Lyme artist colony, where he could find high thinking and low living. Then he moved to Gloucester, Mass., and devoted himself to landscape painting. He then moved around the Northeast, teaching and painting portraits and illustrations. Early success allowed him to study in Europe for five years. He began painting at 16 and opened a studio in Boston at 18. Metcalf was born into a working class family in Lowell, Mass., in 1858. Willard Metcalf painted May Night, one of his best works, while at the Old Lyme artist colony in Connecticut. We have been selling online since 2002 and as you can see from our testimonials section we have had many thousands of happy customers.May Night by Willard Metcalf.
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