<p>Edward Willis Redfield, a leading member of a group of Impressionists located in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, most frequently painted the landscape around his hand-built home in the river town of Center Bridge. His intimate familiarity with this land, and his commitment to recording its ever-changing appearance, is apparent in <em>Centre Bridge</em>, a wintry portrayal of the hillside above the town overlooking the Delaware River. Despite the painting’s look of immediacy, Redfield carefully composed the picture to emphasize the sweeping hillside and dramatic panoramic view of the valley, using a variety of brushstrokes. The flair of his technique and local flavor of his subject matter brought Redfield enormous critical and popular acclaim as the creator of art that seemed to reflect a distinctly American character: fresh, vigorous, and rough-hewn.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1904
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 91.4 × 127 cm (36 × 50 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Edward Willis Redfield
Artist
Painting
Born in Bridgeville Delaware in 1869, Edward Willis Redfield was an American Impressionist painter best known for his pastoral and snowy scenes of the Northeast countryside. Widely regarded as one of the pioneering members of the New Hope Circle, Redfield worked alongside artists such as Daniel Garber, Walter Schofield and Robert Spencer. Renowned for his dynamic and lively renderings of the rural scenery which surrounded him, his en plein air works have become synonymous with the unsentimental individualism characteristic of early twentieth century American landscape painting.
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- Edward Willis Redfield
- Year
- 1904
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 91.4 × 127 cm (36 × 50 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1904-022162
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- verified