The Road to Center Bridge

c. 1922

Edward Willis Redfield

Associated Names
Edward Willis Redfield

Painter, American, 1869 - 1965

The painting depicts a rural dirt road winding through a snowy landscape. The road leads from the bottom left corner into the center of the painting, past a stone house with a red brick chimney that faces the right, on top of a low hill. More buildings can be seen in the distance, behind the trees and the slope of the hill. The horizon is low, obscured by bare trees that blur together into a haze of pale peach under the icy blue sky.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of Lady Inchyra)

  • Dimensions

    overall: 97.16 × 127 cm (38 1/4 × 50 in.)
    framed: 109.22 × 138.43 × 20.32 cm (43 × 54 1/2 × 8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.92

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Charles C. Glover [1846-1936], Washington;[1] his granddaughter, Anna Hoyer Millar, Baroness Inchyra [1906-1999, née Anna Judith Elisabeth de Marees van Swinderen], London; gift 16 April 1962 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] According to Helen W. Henderson, The Art Treasures of Washington, Boston, 1912: 144.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1909

  • Exhibition of Paintings by Edward W. Redfield, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 17 April - 16 May 1909, no. 44.

  • An Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Edward W. Redfield, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 10 October - 8 November 1909, no. 36.

  • A Collection of Oil Paintings by Mr. Edward W. Redfield, N.A., City Art Museum of St. Louis, Missouri, November 1909, no. 36.

  • Summer Exhibition of Paintings by Edward W. Redfield, Detroit Museum of Art, July-August 1909, no. 40.

1910

  • Exhibition of Paintings by Edward W. Redfield, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 3-23 January 1910, no. 31.

1914

  • Exhibition of Paintings by Edward W. Redfield, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, 1914, no. 32.

1975

  • Long-term loan, United States Embassy, London, 1975.

1984

  • The Pennsylvania School of Landscape Painting: An Original American Impressionism, Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania; Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, 1984-1985, (not shown in Chadds Ford).

1987

  • Long-term loan, Geico, Washington, 29 January 1987 - 11 April 1989.

1994

  • Long-term loan, United States Embassy, Stockholm, 28 June 1994 - 20 January 1998.

2003

  • The Impressionist Tradition in America, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 19 July 2003 - 18 October 2004, unpublished checklist.

Bibliography

1910

  • Laurvik, J. Nilsen. "Edward W. Redfield - Landscape Painter." International Studio 41, no. 162 (August 1910): 31-32, repro.

1973

  • Phillips, Dorothy W. A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Vol. 2: Painters born from 1850 to 1910. Washington, 1973: 80-81, repro.

1996

  • Fletcher, J. M. W. Edward Willis Redfield 1869-1965: An American Impressionist, his Paintigns and the Man behind the Palette. Lahaska, Pennsylvania, 1996: 30, fig. 2.

1999

  • Winter's Promise: Willard Metcalf in Cornish, New Hampshire 1909-1920. MacAdam, Barbara J. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 1999: 26, fig. 19.

2011

  • Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 314, repro.

Inscriptions

lower right: E.W.Redfield

Wikidata ID

Q46634128

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