Willard Leroy Metcalf Works Online
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Original works by Willard Leroy Metcalf available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Icebound
Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
Spring Landscape, Giverny, 1887
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Willard Leroy Metcalf at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
2 works online
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Sunset at Grez, 1885
Willard Leroy Metcalf at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
Willard Leroy Metcalf at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Midsummer Twilight, ca.1890
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana
2 works online
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
2 works online
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
Willow Road, Brunswick, Maine, 1877
Ebbing Tide, 1907
Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Hood Museum of Art, New Hampshire
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
The Golden Carnival
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
November
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
June Pastoral, 1910
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Blossoming Willows
Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College, California
Seattle Art Museum
Willard Leroy Metcalf at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Willard Leroy Metcalf at the Smithsonian Sackler-Freer Gallery, Washington D.C.
The White Lilacs
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago
6 works online
The Huntington Library, California
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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The Picnic, 1907
University of Kentucky Art Museum
Giverny, 1887
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Willard Leroy Metcalf in the Art Renewal Center
Willard Leroy Metcalf at CGFA
Willard Leroy Metcalf at The Athenaeum 
78 works online by Metcalf
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
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Articles and Reference Sites:
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt) 
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Resource Library Magazine
Winter's Promise: Willard Metcalf in Cornish, New Hampshire, 1909-1920
Resource Library Magazine
The Poppy Garden, 1905
Multimedia:
Antiques Roadshow (PBS) Appraisals
"1906 William Leroy Metcalf Oil Painting, 'Reflections of Spring'"
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