Edward Redfield (1869-1965)
Fleecydale Road, n.d.
The most influential member of the New Hope school was Edward Redfield (1869-1965, who moved to Center Bridge in 1898, the first of the group to settle in the area. He had studied at the Academy during the late 1880s before going abroad. His early friendship with Robert Henri, with whom he would travel, serves as a reminder that many of these artistic circles were permeable, with considerable stylistic overlap. His several trips to France during the 1890s introduced him to plein air painting, and thereafter he painted out of doors year round. He completed his canvases in a single day, and remains best known for his large snow scenes. Fleecydale Road captures the small scale of village life in the region, and his muted palette conveys a typical overcast winter day. One of the most successful landscape painters of his day, after his first one-man show at the Academy in 1896, his work was exhibited widely.
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