Mountain Laurel
Artist
Willard Metcalf
(American, 1858 - 1925)
Date1905
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions29 x 26 in.
ClassificationsOil Painting
Credit LineCharles and Elizabeth Buchanan Collection
Object number1989.36
Description"Mountain Laurel' (the state flower of Connecticut) was painted at Old Lyme along the Lieutenant River, the site of a flourishing artists' colony. The picture marks a high point in Metcalf's career as it was around this time that he became known as the Robert Frost of the New England landscape. Shortly before his death, Metcalfe wrote to his daughter Rosalind, that painting is:An endless effort of putting paint on a canvas with a miserable little brush-and endeavoring to make it express thoughts and dreams-that will perhaps reach out and say something to someone, something that will make wandering souls-stop-and look-perhaps awaken something in them that may make them think of beautiful things.
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