Overlooking the Valley

Edward Willis Redfield

1911 · Oil on canvas · The American Wing

Edward Willis Redfield was a leading member of the so-called Pennsylvania Impressionists, or New Hope school, a group of artists who lived and worked in the Bucks County region outside Philadelphia. Trained in the realist traditions of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Redfield won more lifetime awards for his work than any American artist except John Singer Sargent. He is best known for his vigorous snow scenes, such as this one, painted en plein air (or outdoors) in one sitting. Such painting was viewed by the modernist critic and artist Guy Pene du Bois as “democratic . . . an unbiased . . . record of nature.”

Artist

Edward Willis Redfield

Date

1911

Medium

Oil on canvas

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Credit line

Gift of Mrs. E. H. Harriman, 1916