Willard LeRoy Metcalf (1858-1925)
The Swimming Hole
signed 'W.L. METCALF' (lower right)
oil on canvas
26 1/8 x 29 1/8 in. (66.4 x 74 cm.)
Painted in 1886.
Footnotes:
Provenance
Chapellier Galleries, New York, by 1970.
Mann Gallery, Miami.
Samuel M. Mann (1911-1987) and Grace G. Mann (1915-2018), Cleveland.
Thomas Mann, Palm Beach, Florida, son of the above, by descent from the above, 2018.
Sale, Hindman, Chicago, September 27, 2022, lot 113, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale.

Exhibited
New York, Chapellier Galleries, American Art Selections, January 7-February 20, 1970, p. 32, no. 32, illustrated.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, American Impressionist Painting, July 1-August 26, 1973, p. 104, no. 42, illustrated, and elsewhere.

Literature
E. de Veer, R.J. Boyle, Sunlight and Shadow: The Life and Art of Willard L. Metcalf, New York, 1987, pp. 36, 40-41, 194-95, 277, fig. 228, illustrated. (as The Bathing Pool)

This work will be included in the forthcoming online catalogue raisonné being coordinated by Betty Krulik, Deborah Spanierman, and Lisa N. Peters of the Willard Leroy Metcalf Catalogue Raisonné Project, Inc.