Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Bliss, by 1942
[Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York]; to
Private collection, Massachusetts, in 1976, until the present

Exhibitions

Montross Gallery, New York, 1907, Tenth Annual Exhibition - Ten American Painters, no. 19 // Montross Gallery, New York, 1908, New Landscapes by Mr. Willard L. Metcalf // Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, extended loan, 1942-44 // Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, 1997, American Impressionism: Paintings of Promise, no. 28 // Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, 2003-2004, French and American Landscape Paintings from the Worcester Art Museum, no. 40

Literature

Royal Cortissoz, "New Landscapes by Mr. Willard L. Metcalf," in New York Tribune, (1908) // Elizabeth de Veer and Richard J. Boyle, Sunlight and Shadow: The Life and Art of Willard L. Metcalf (1987), p. 88 illus. // Spanierman Gallery, Ten American Painters (1990), pp. 36, 182 // David R. Brigham, American Impressionism: Paintings of Promise (1997), p. 68, no. 28 // Barbara MacAdam, Winter's Promise: Willard Metcalf in Cornish, New Hampshire (1999), pp. 13-14, 29, 73, 77, illus. // Richard Boyle, Willard Metcalf (1858-1925): Yankee Impressionist (2003), p. 55, note 37 // Bruce W. Chambers, May Night: Willard Metcalf at Old Lyme, (2005), p. 56