$75,000
Estimate: $100,000 - $150,000
American Art & Pennsylvania Impressionists
Auction: December 6, 2015 2:00:00 PM EDT
Signed 'E.W. Redfield' bottom right, and signed and dated 'E.W. Redfield 41' on painting on wall at upper right; also with artist and title on label verso, oil on canvas
50 x 56 in. (127 x 142.2cm)
In a Harer frame incised 'HARER'
Provenance: The Estate of the Artist.
To the Artist's daughter, Louise R. Stephens.
By descent in the family to Mrs. William G. McKeown and family, 1987.
By descent in the family.
Private Collection, Maine.
Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York, New York.
Acquired from the above.
Private Collection, New Jersey.
EXHIBITED:
"137th Annual Exhibition", Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 25 - March 1, 1942, no. 340.
"The Eighteenth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings", Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., March 21 - May 4, 1943, no. 25.
"Painting in the United States", Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 14 - December 12, 1943.
"An Exhibition of Paintings and Crafts by Edward W. Redfield", Woodmere Art Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 1 - 22, 1959, no. 17.
"An Exhibition of Paintings and Crafts by Edward W. Redfield", organized by the New Hope Historical Society and shown at the Parry Barn, New Hope, Pennsylvania, October 30 - November 27, 1960, no. 1.
"An Exhibition of Paintings and Crafts by Edward W. Redfield", Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery, Reading, Pennsylvania, December 3, 1961 - January 28, 1962, no. 32.
"Edward W. Redfield, 1869-1965, A Retrospective Exhibition of His Work", Newman Galleries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 23 - November 30, 1968, no. 225, (illustrated).
"A Retrospective Exhibition of the Work of the Great American Impressionist Edward Willis Redfield of Pennsylvania", William Penn Memorial Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, March 31 - May 13, 1973, no. 60.
"Edward Redfield, First Master of the Twentieth Century Landscape", Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania, September 20, 1987 - January 10, 1988.
"Edward Redfield, First Master of the Twentieth Century Landscape", The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, February 14 - April 2, 1988, no. 19.
"The Artist in the Garden", Michener Museum of Art, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, February 7 - August 9, 2015.
LITERATURE:
[Washington?] Star, March 21, 1943.
Dr. Thomas Folk, Edward Redfield, First Master of the Twentieth Century Landscape, Allentown, Pennsylvania: Allentown Art Museum, 1987, p. 52, (illustrated p. 74).
J.M.W. Fletcher, Edward Willis Redfield (1869-1965): An American Impressionist, His Paintings and the Man Behind the Palette, Lahaska, Pennsylvania: JMWF Publishing, 1996, p. 143; p. 191, no. 930.
J.M.W. Fletcher, Edward Willis Redfield: An American Impressionist (1869-1965); The Redfield Letters, Lahaska, Pennsylvania: JMWF Publishing, vol. 2, pp. 421-423, 426-428, 472; p. 400, no. 249, (illustrated).
NOTE:
Edward Redfield described this painting featuring his wife, "Elise and interior living room, winter outside (snow)." Painted from inside the couple's home at Center Bridge, Pennsylvania, it is one of three paintings Redfield ever painted of his wife.