Willard Leroy Metcalf
(American, 1858-1925)
The Swimming Hole or The Bathing Hole, 1886
Sale 1057 - American & European Art
Sep 27, 2022
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$87,500
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Lot Description
Willard Leroy Metcalf
(American, 1858-1925)
The Swimming Hole or The Bathing Hole, 1886
oil on canvas
signed W.L. Metcalf (lower right)
26 x 29 inches.
This lot will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being coordinated by Betty Krulik and the Willard Leroy Metcalf Catalogue Raisonné Project, Inc.
Provenance:
Chapellier Gallery, New York
Mann Gallery, Miami
The Collection of Samuel and Grace Mann, Cleveland, Ohio
Exhibited:
Cincinnati Art Museum, American Impressionist Painting, December 19, 1973 - January 31, 1974 (traveled to Raleigh, North Carolina, North Carolina Museum of Art, March 10 - April 29, 1974), no. 42
Literature:
Eliza DeVeer and Richard J. Boyle, Sunlight and Shadow: the Life and Art of Willard L. Metcalf, p. 194-195, pl. 228
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