DOI issue:
Nr. 341 (October 1925)
DOI article:Teevan, Bernard: A painter's renaissance
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19986#0004
mceRnACioriAL
GREEN CANOPY BY WILLARD L. METCALF
more than begin the creation of his own renais- of the nineteenth century and who turned painter
sance. He compelled men, by sheer brilliancy of and went abroad to study and copy in the Louvre,
this new achievement, to forget the Willard L. Essentially a man of tradition, Brown brought
Metcalf that had been and only remember the back with him to America in i860 many canvases
Willard L. Metcalf who was, easily among the he had painted in Italy, classical compositions of
first three or four American landscape painters, great size and rather like Turner in his most
Metcalf was seventeen years old (he was born in grandiose manner. Being a man of tradition, if
Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1858) when he began not at all a man of genius, Brown had a profound
to study art as an apprentice with George L. respect for the integrity of art and for truth. And
Brown in Boston. One has to go back into Brown's if he can be said to have instilled these principles
own career to understand the soundest elements in in his best-known pupil, for myself I believe they
my subject's work. This ancient of other days was were inherent in Metcalf's nature, it was through
a wood engraver who was born in the early years the medium of teaching him to draw, more
four
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GREEN CANOPY BY WILLARD L. METCALF
more than begin the creation of his own renais- of the nineteenth century and who turned painter
sance. He compelled men, by sheer brilliancy of and went abroad to study and copy in the Louvre,
this new achievement, to forget the Willard L. Essentially a man of tradition, Brown brought
Metcalf that had been and only remember the back with him to America in i860 many canvases
Willard L. Metcalf who was, easily among the he had painted in Italy, classical compositions of
first three or four American landscape painters, great size and rather like Turner in his most
Metcalf was seventeen years old (he was born in grandiose manner. Being a man of tradition, if
Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1858) when he began not at all a man of genius, Brown had a profound
to study art as an apprentice with George L. respect for the integrity of art and for truth. And
Brown in Boston. One has to go back into Brown's if he can be said to have instilled these principles
own career to understand the soundest elements in in his best-known pupil, for myself I believe they
my subject's work. This ancient of other days was were inherent in Metcalf's nature, it was through
a wood engraver who was born in the early years the medium of teaching him to draw, more
four
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