Willard Leroy Metcalf papers
name: label: Creator
content: Metcalf, Willard Leroy, 1858-1925
label: Names
content: Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919
label: Names
content: Griswold, Florence, 1850-1937
topic: label: Occupation
content: Landscape painters -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Painting, American
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America
label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming by Addison Metcalf, 1969.
creator: label: Creator
content: Metcalf, Willard Leroy, 1858-1925
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Landscape painter, illustrator; New York City. One of The Ten American Painters. Worked in Southwest U.S. painting Zuni Indians 1881-1883; associated with artists' colonies in Old Lyme, Conn., and Cornish, N.H.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 150 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1876-1925
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.metcwill2
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sketchbooks
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel N70-13 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sketchbooks
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals returned to the lender, Addison Metcalf, after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 23 letters between Metcalf and Charles L. Freer, 1917-1919, discussing prospective purchases of Metcalf's work for the Freer Collection, and 2 personal letters to Florence Griswold, 1905-06. Also included are a diary for 1876, recording the progress of some of his paintings, detailing sketching trips around Boston and Vermont, and noting daily expenses; sketchbooks, 1885, 1905, 1913-14; photographs of his murals and paintings; snapshots of his friends and himself; and a scrapbook of clippings, 1905-1925.