Walter Elmer Schofield (1867-1944)
Early May Morning, n.d.
Walter Elmer Schofield was born in Philadelphia in 1867. He attended Swarthmore College and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts before leaving for Paris to study at the Academie Julian. Schofield moved to England and settled in the St. Ives art colony at Cornwall. Here he practiced the tradition of plein air landscape painting and developed his impressionistic style.
Schofield is remembered for his impressionistic winter scenes of the Deleware River in Pennsylvania and various landscapes in England. His paintings are rich and infused with a brilliant cobalt blue. Most of his work is not signed and must be authenticated by an expert art historian.
His Early May Morning (c. 1919), a painting of his middle years, was inspired by structures in a rural Cornwall village, but its landscape theme, bright colors, and the fact it was painted outdoors all are hallmarks of the Pennsylvania Impressionists.
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