Cornish Hills
[after Metcalf]
18" x 24"
Oil on hardwood Panel
Willard Metcalf painted this more than a century ago. It is one of my favorite landscape paintings.
In an effort to understand it's structure and unity, I decided to try to paint it myself. However Metcalf painted his nearly square and I'm not a great fan of square landscape, so I modified the design into a rectangle.
I wish I had the original to compare the surface control and brushwork.
It was a great exercise for me, as I discovered things about it in trying to create it that were not obvious to me just by studying it. Lots of great stuff involved in his creation of this masterpiece.
A photograph of Metcalf's original painting is below. And, sad to admit, better than mine
