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Signed Redfield, EW 'Snow Scene' Oil Painting

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EW Redfield Snow Scene Oil Painting Artist-signed Bucks County winter landscape with horse-drawn sleigh and figures, split-rail fence, house in distance beckons with light in window. The sky is painted in peach tones below gray, suggesting a clearing after a fresh snowfall. A child pulls a sled behind the sleigh. SLL E.W. Redfield. Edward Willis Redfield (1869-1965), considered by many to be the dean of New Hope painters. Born in Bridgeville, Del., Redfield showed artistic talent at an early age. From 1887-1889, he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Later, he traveled to France and studied at the Académie Julian and L'école des Beaux-Arts. While in Europe, Redfield admired the work of Impressionists Monet, Pissarro and Thaulow, and influence he would take home with him to Pennsylvania. Settling in Center Bridge, near New Hope, in 1898, Redfield was the first painter to establish himself in the area. Some consider him to be a co-founder, together with William Langson Lathrop, of the New Hope artists colony. Redfield painted en plein air. He would 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. Redfield exhibited 27 paintings at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915. Then, as now, he is considered one of the most important of all American artists, although he was a harsh self-critic who sometimes burned artworks he considered to be substandard. Verso; Plymouth Meeting Gallery Label, Ingham Springs Gallery Label. O/C. 20" x 24". (Relined/ Craquelure).

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