The Upper Delaware, Edward Willis Redfield, oil on canvas, roughly 38 x 50 inches (96 x 127 cm). Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; high res (33mb) image available on Wikimedia commons; original is in the collection of the James A Michenner Read More …
Winter in the Valley, Edward Willis Redfield Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; original is in the Reading Public Museum. There is a downloadable version here, part of this article about a previous traveling show that featured the painting, but it seems Read More …
Woodland Stream, Edward Willis Redfield. Redfield, a Pennsylvania Impressionist devoted to painting winter scenes in particular, painted these canvasses with huge, thick gobs of paint, piled on like… well, like snow. From this Russian blog whose name Google Translate makes out as “Postcards with Reproductions”. Read More …
With snow still on the ground throughout most of the Mid-Atlantic United States, and more on the way, I thought it appropriate to look at an American artist renowned for his scenes of snow and winter. Edward Willis Redfield was one of the major figures Read More …
Overlooking the Valley, Edward Willis Redfield Redfield was one of the major figures in Pennsylvania Impressionism, painting in and around New Hope, PA and Lambertville, NJ. Redfield loved to paint in the winter. All of his paintings are highly textural, but his snow scenes in Read More …
As much as I admire the original French Impressionists, I’m frequently even more drawn to the work of the American Impressionists, who, though not part of a formal movement, took elements of the impressionist approach and applied them to their own unique vision, resulting in Read More …