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Exhibition History"Selected Works from the Des Moines Art Center's Permanent Collection," organized by the Waterloo Municipal Galleries, sponsored by the National Bank of Waterloo, Oct. 24 - Nov. 20, 1983; (circulated to: Charles H. MacNider Museum, Mason City, Jan. 15 - Feb. 26, 1984; Muscatine Art Center, Apr. 1 - May 13, 1984; Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, May 27 - July 1, 1984; Sioux City Art Center, July 15 - Aug. 26, 1984)

"American Art at Home and Abroad, 1870 - 1920," Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, TX, Mar. 26 - Apr. 9, 1971

"A Look at American Landscapes," Charles H. MacNider Museum, Mason City, Jan. 9 - Feb. 19, 1966

"Impressionism in America," Univeristy of New Mexico, Albuquerque, Feb. 9 - Mar. 14, 1965; (circulated to: M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, Mar. 30 - May 5, 1965)
Published ReferencesDES MOINES ART CENTER: SELECTED PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES AND WORKS ON PAPER, Des Moines Art Center, 1985, ref. pp.155 & 156, b/w ill. pl.93, p.156

Elizabeth deVeer & Richard J. Boyle, SUNLIGHT AND SHADOW: THE LIFE AND ART OF WILLARD L. METCALF, Boston University & Abbeville Press, 1987, p.242

DMAC Bulletin, Sept. 1965, ill.
DimensionsOverall: 24 × 24 in. (61 × 61 cm)
Accession Number 1964.84
Classificationspainting
CopyrightPublic Domain
SignedW.L. Metcalf - 1916 (l,c oil paint)
ProvenanceArtist. (J. W. Young Galleries, Chicago); William W. and Edith King Pearson, Des Moines [purchased from the previous, 1922]; Des Moines Art Center [bequest of the previous, 1964]
Vacation Days
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Willard Ayer Nash
date unknown
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Roberto Matta
1958
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Ben Foster
date unknown
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Lyonel Feininger
1951
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Alex Brown
2003
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
George Bellows
1920
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Sam Francis
1957
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Richard Pettibone
1965
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Karl Mattern
1936
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
William Bailey
1976