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Willard Metcalf (1858–1925)
Gloucester Harbor, 1895
Oil on canvas; 26 x 28 3/4 in. (66 x 73 cm)
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, Gift of George D. Pratt (Class of 1893)
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Although Metcalf had visited Giverny several times between 1885 and 1888, his most convincing Impressionist canvases date from the mid-1890s, when contact with his American colleagues at home intensified his interest in the style. Working in Childe Hassam's company in 1895 in Gloucester, Metcalf produced this dazzling image of the historic Massachusetts seaport. The graceful sailing craft plying the harbor, along with the old wooden houses and fishing shacks, were reassuring remnants of tradition, which was rapidly fading in the increasingly industrialized town.
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