Edward Willis Redfield

American, 1869 - 1965

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Edward Willis Redfield, The Road to Center Bridge, c. 1922, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Gift of Lady Inchyra), 2015.19.92

The Road to Center Bridge

Edward Willis Redfield · c. 1922 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2015.19.92

From a snowy bank, we look across a river that curves from the lower left corner of the painting in a backward C shape toward a cluster of butter-yellow and peanut-brown buildings in the distance in this almost square landscape. The scene is loosely painted with visible brushstrokes throughout. Bare trees, painted with slashes of slate gray and lavender purple, line the bank ahead of us and cluster around and behind the buildings. Along the right edge of the canvas, the trees closest to us reach high into a milky, dove-gray sky that fills the top third of the composition. Bare patches of earth painted in mustard and caramel brown dot the ground directly in front of us and follow the edge of stream as it recedes. On the left, clumps of wheat-colored strokes suggest dried vegetation scattered across the snowy field between us and the buildings. Trees on both sides are sparsely dotted with golden yellow to suggest leaves. Small hills rising beyond the cluster of buildings are covered in more bare trees, dotted with a few evergreens and silhouetted against the gray sky. The tangled branches of a fallen tree in the middle distance jut into the glassy, pewter-gray water, which reflects the gray sky and trees. The artist has signed the painting in the lower right corner, “E W Redfield.”
Edward Willis Redfield, The Mill in Winter, 1921, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund), 2014.136.16

The Mill in Winter

Edward Willis Redfield · 1921 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2014.136.16

Edward Willis Redfield, Overlooking the Valley, c. 1919, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Bequest of George M. Oyster, Jr.), 2015.19.16

Overlooking the Valley

Edward Willis Redfield · c. 1919 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2015.19.16