- Edward Willis Redfield
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name = Edward Willis Redfield
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birthdate = birth date |1869|12|18|
location =Bridgeville, Delaware
deathdate = death date and age |1965|10|19|1869|12|18|
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nationality = American
field = Impressionism,Landscape art
training =Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts ,Académie Julian ,École des Beaux-Arts
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awards =Edward Willis Redfield (
December 18 ,1869 –October 19 ,1965 ) was anAmerican Impressionist landscape painter and member of theart colony atNew Hope, Pennsylvania . He is best known today for his impressionist scenes of the New Hope area, often depicting the snow-covered countryside.Redfield was born in 1869 in
Bridgeville, Delaware . He showed artistic talent at an early age, and from 1887 to 1889 studied at thePennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. While there he metRobert Henri , who was later to become an important American painter of theAshcan School , and the two became lifelong friends. Redfield later traveled to France and studied at theAcadémie Julian and theÉcole des Beaux-Arts . In Europe, Redfield admired the work of impressionist paintersClaude Monet ,Camille Pissarro , and NorwegianFritz Thaulow . In France he met Elise Deligant, the daughter of an innkeeper, and the two married in 1893.Redfield and his wife returned to America and settled in
Centre Bridge, Pennsylvania , near New Hope. Redfield was the first painter to move to the area, and is sometimes considered a co-founder of the artist colony at New Hope along withWilliam Langson Lathrop .The impressionist landscapes of Edward Redfield are noted for their bold application of paint and vibrant color. Redfield painted "
en plein air ", directly from nature rather than in a studio. He would often carry a large canvas into the snow, set it on an easel, and vigorously paint an entire scene in one standing over the course of a day. His works were exhibited nation-wide, and twenty-seven of them were featured at thePanama-Pacific International Exposition (1915) in San Francisco, an important venue for artists of the time.Redfield was a harsh critic of his own art. In 1947 he burned a large number of his paintings that he considered sub-standard. It was around that time that he stopped painting. Redfield died on October 19, 1965. Today his paintings are in many major museums, including the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and theSmithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC.Further reading
*cite book | author=Kimmerle, Constance | title=Edward W. Redfield: Just Values and Fine Seeing| location=Philadelphia | publisher=James A. Michener Art Museum and University of Pennsylvania Press | year=2004| id=ISBN 0-8122-3843-5
*cite book | author=Peterson, Brian H. (Editor) | title=Pennsylvania Impressionism | location=Philadelphia | publisher=James A. Michener Art Museum and University of Pennsylvania Press | year=2002 | id=ISBN 0-8122-3700-5
External links
* [http://www.hollistaggart.com/artists/redfield.htm Edward Willis Redfield Biography: Hollis Taggart Galleries]
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