Born in Bridgeville, Delaware, Edward Redfield moved to Philadelphia as a youngster and lived much of his life near New Hope in Bucks County, an easy distance north of Philadelphia. There he became... Read full biography
Born in Bridgeville, Delaware, Edward Redfield moved to Philadelphia as a youngster and lived much of his life near New Hope in Bucks County, an easy distance north of Philadelphia. There he became the leader of the colony of artists known as the New Hope Impressionists. n modified Impressionist... Read full biography
Born in Bridgeville, Delaware, Edward Redfield moved to Philadelphia as a youngster and lived much of his life near New Hope in Bucks County, an easy distance north of Philadelphia. There he became the leader of the colony of artists known as the New Hope Impressionists. n modified Impressionist style and methods, he did many landscapes, especially panoramic snowscenes of the area, and used thick paint applied to large canvases with long brush strokes instead of the feathery strokes of true... Read full biography
Born in Bridgeville, Delaware, Edward Redfield moved to Philadelphia as a youngster and lived much of his life near New Hope in Bucks County, an easy distance north of Philadelphia. There he became the leader of the colony of artists known as the New Hope Impressionists. n modified Impressionist style and methods, he did many landscapes, especially panoramic snowscenes of the area, and used thick paint applied to large canvases with long brush strokes instead of the feathery strokes of true French Impressionism. He usually finished his paintings in "one go" meaning plein-air, sometimes strapping his canvas to a tree on blustery days and standing knee-deep in snow. In the summers, he painted at Boothbay Harbor, Maine. He was also a teacher... Read full biography
Born in Bridgeville, Delaware, Edward Redfield moved to Philadelphia as a youngster and lived much of his life near New Hope in Bucks County, an easy distance north of Philadelphia. There he became the leader of the colony of artists known as the New Hope Impressionists. n modified Impressionist style and methods, he did many landscapes, especially panoramic snowscenes of the area, and used thick paint applied to large canvases with long brush strokes instead of the feathery strokes of true French Impressionism. He usually finished his paintings in "one go" meaning plein-air, sometimes strapping his canvas to a tree on blustery days and standing knee-deep in snow. In the summers, he painted at Boothbay Harbor, Maine. He was also a teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy and a skilled craftsman who built his own house, cabinets and restored antiques. Redfield took his earl... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (97)
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A History of American Tonalism
2010
Cleveland, David Adams
592 pages (color)
George Hand Wright: An Artist's Life Examined
2007
Jensen, Kirsten M. Ph.D.
92 pages (color)
Artists of the Commonwealth: Realism and Its Response in Pennsylvania Painting, 1900-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
2006
Fahlman, Betsy (Essay)
71 pages (color)
New Hope for American Art A Comprehensive Showing of Important 20th Century Paintings from and Surrounding the New Hope Art Colony
2005
Alterman, James M.
612 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Side by Side on Monhegan: The Henri Circle and The American Impressionists (Exhibition catalog)
2004
60 pages (color)
Blue Chips
2004
Alterman, Jim
128 pages (color)
Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925
2004
Dearinger, David B.
672 pages (color)
Edward W Redfield: Just Values and Fine Seeing (Exhibition catalog)
2004
Kimmerle, Constance
144 pages (color)
The Redfield Letters Edward Willis Redfield, An American Impressionist
2002
Fletcher, J.M.W.
493 pages (color)
Pennsylvania Impressionism
2002
Gerdts, William; Brian H. Peterson & Yount
340 pages (color)
Thomas Eakins and His Fellow Artists at the Philadelphia Sketch Club (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Sellin, David; Mark Sullivan
52 pages (color)
American Impressionists Abroad And at Home
2001
Weinberg, H Barbara; S Larkin
0 pages
Boston Art Club: 1855-1950
2000
Jarzombek, Nancy Allyn
88 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Vose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors Art and Collecting in America
1999
Jarzombek, NA, Marcia Vose
29 pages (color)
Carl W Peters: American Scene Painter from Rochester
1999
Love, Richard H
927 pages (color)
Edward Willis Redfield (1869-1965): An American Impressionist
1998
Fletcher, J.M.W.
214 pages (color)
The Pennsylvania Impressionists
1997
Folk, Thomas C; James A. Michener (Foreward)
140 pages (color)
Inventing the Modern Artist Art and Culture in Gilded Age America
1996
Burns, Sarah
380 pages
American Art Colonies 1850-1930 A Guide to Original Art Colonies and Their Artists
1996
Shipp, Steve
159 pages
Monhegan: The Artists' Island
1995
Curtis, Jane and Will, Frank Lieberman, Carl Little (Foreward)
192 pages (color)
Impressionist New York
1994
Gerdts, William H
224 pages (color)
American Painters in the Age of Impressionism
1994
Neff, Emily/G T M Shackelford
144 pages (color)
Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art
1994
Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts
372 pages (color)
American Iconology
1993
Miller, Davd C (editor)
344 pages
Masterworks of American Impressionism from the Pfeil Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Gerdts, William H
282 pages (color)
Lasting Impressions: American Painters in France, 1865-1915 (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Gerdts, William H (essay); Helene Ahrweiler, Roger Mandle
286 pages (color)
Hidden Treasures American Paintings from Florida Colllections (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Leeds, Valerie Ann
72 pages (color)
American Selections 1850-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Lublin, Mary
163 pages (color)
American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art
1992
Strazdes, Diana
511 pages (color)
American Impressionism from the Sheldon Memorial Gallery (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Gerdts, William (Essay); George Neubert, (Editor)
79 pages (color)
American Impressionists
1991
Montgomery, Elizabeth
112 pages (color)
Light, Air, and Color: American Impressionist Paintings from PAFA
1990
Danly, Susan
91 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons
1990
Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface
430 pages (color)
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
Pennsylvania Impressionists Painters of the New Hope School (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Taggart and Jorgensen Gallery
38 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
1988
Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy
376 pages (color)
Looking Back A Perspective on the 1913 Inaugural Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Marling, Karal Ann
55 pages (color)
Edward Redfield First Master of the Twentieth Century Landscape (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Folk, Thomas
110 pages (color)
A Proud Heritage Two Centuries of American Art
1987
Neff, Terry (editor)
300 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
25th Anniversary Exhibition Selected American Paintings (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Adams, Henry
120 pages
American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History
1984
Baigell, Mathew
420 pages
The Pennsylvania School of Landscape Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Folk, Thomas
95 pages (color)
American Impressionism (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Gerdts, William H
336 pages (color)
Paintings and Sculpture In the Permanent Collection
1983
Bermingham, Peter/Daphne Deeds
273 pages (color)
Artists by Themselves Artist's Portrait's from the National Academy of Design (Exhibition catalog)
1983
National Academy of Design
175 pages (color)
Tonalism An American Experience (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Gerdts, William H (others)
94 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
Directions in American Painting 1875-1925 (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Rodriguez Roque, Oswaldo
112 pages (color)
Plein Air Painters of California: The Southland
1982
Westphal, Ruth Lilly
220 pages (color)
Catalogue of American Painting
1981
San Diego Museum of Art
240 pages (color)
American Impressionism: The Henry Art Gallery (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Gerdts, William H
179 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
1977
Brown, Milton W
631 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum
1977
Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich
268 pages (color)
Turn-of-the-Century America Paintings, Graphics, Photographs 1890-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Hills, Patricia
194 pages (color)
American Painting from the Museum's Collection c1800-1930
1977
Rhode Island School of Design
241 pages
In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976 (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Boyle, Richard (Prefac); Frank Goodyear, Jr.; Louise Lippincott, et all
322 pages (color)
American Painters Of the Impressionist Period Rediscovered
1975
Weber, Nicholas Fox
104 pages (color)
American Impressionism
1974
Boyle, Richard
238 pages (color)
Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set) (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Naylor, Maria
1,075 pages
Biographical Sketches of American Artists
1972
Earle, Helen L
370 pages
Permanent Collection Catalog Springville Museum of Art
1972
Forster, Peggy; Julie Snow Birkhimer; Mae Huntington
75 pages (color)
The American Impressionists
1972
Hoopes, Donelson F
160 pages (color)
American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes)
1969
Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed)
600 pages (color)
Nebraska Art Today A Centenial Invitational Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1967
Nebraska Centennial Commission
84 pages
Impressionism in America An Exhibition...U of New Mexico Art Gallery (Exhibition catalog)
1965
University of New Mexico
72 pages (color)
The Immortal Eight American Painting from Eakins to the Armory Show
1962
Perlman, Bennard B
226 pages
Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago/A Catalogue of the Collection
1961
Art Institute of Chicago
490 pages (color)
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954
Clark, Eliot
296 pages
Survey of American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1940
Carnegie Institute
320 pages
The Story of American Painting The Evolution of Painting in America
1937
Caffin, Charles H
396 pages
First National Exhibition of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1936
Breckinridge, Mrs. (essay)
32 pages
Exhibition of American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1935
De Young Memorial Museum
120 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1933
Harshe, Robert (Introduction)
215 pages
A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One
1932
Hartmann, Sadekichi
363 pages
A Critical Introduction to American Painting
1931
Barker, Virgil
52 pages
The History and Ideals of American Art
1931
Neuhaus, Eugen
444 pages
Redfield
1925
Wheeler, Charles V
0 pages
American Pictures & their Painters
1921
Bryant, Lorinda Munson
307 pages
Impressions of the Art at the Panama Pacific Exposition (Exhibition catalog)
1916
Brinton, Christian
203 pages
San Francisco, Panama Pacific Exposition (official catalogue) (Exhibition catalog)
1915
Panama Pacific Expositon
72 pages
Panama-Pacific Exposition: Catalogue of the Post-Exposition Exhibit
1915
Walter, John; Pedro Lemos
112 pages
Official Catalogue of Exhibitors Department B, Art (Exhibition catalog)