About the Artwork
Unfolding Buds
1909
Willard Leroy Metcalf
1858-1925
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 26 × 29 inches (66 × 73.7 cm) Framed: 39 3/4 × 42 7/8 × 2 5/8 inches (101 × 108.9 × 6.7 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Detroit Museum of Art Purchase, Popular Subscription Fund
10.6
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Markings
Signed and dated, lower right corner: W. L. Metcalf 1909
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Provenance
Willard Leroy Metcalf
transferred to The Montross Galleries. 1910-present, purchased by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Fourth Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists. Exh. cat., Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery. Buffalo, 1909, no. 111.
Burroughs, Clyde. “Another Picture Bought—‘Unfolding Buds’ by Willard L. Metcalf.” Bulletin of the DMA 4, 2 (April 1910): pp. 13-15.
“Metcalf at Montross’s.” American Art News 8, 13 (January 8, 1910): p. 6.
Burroughs, Clyde. “Pictures Loaned to Other Exhibitions.” Bulletin of the DMA 5,4 (October 1911): p. 44.
“Sixth Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists at the Albright Art Gallery.” Academy Notes 6, 3 (July 1911): p. 88 (ill.).
Burroughs, Clyde. “Contemporary American Art: Williard L. Metcalf.” Bulletin of the DMA 7, 3 (July 1913): pp. 53-54 (ill.).
Fortune Magazine (1942).
DeVeer, Elizabeth and Richard Boyle. Sunlight and Shadow: The Life and Art of Williard L. Metcalf. New York, 1967, p. 100 (ill.).
Boyle, Richard, Bruce W. Chambers, and William H. Gerdts. Willard Metcalf (1858-1925): Yankee Impressionist. Exh. cat., Spanierman Gallery. New York, 2003, p. 35.
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Willard Leroy Metcalf, Unfolding Buds, 1909, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Museum of Art Purchase, Popular Subscription Fund, 10.6.
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