Willard Leroy Metcalf

Willard Leroy Metcalf began his career in Lowell, Massachusetts. In 1881 and 1883 he was commissioned to illustrate a series of stories about the Zuni tribe in New Mexico and Arizona. He applied his profits from these drawings towards extensive travel in Europe, where he continued to study painting until his return to the United States in 1889. Metcalf established a studio in New York City, where he taught, painted, and co-founded The Ten –an important group of American Impressionist painters.