Edward Willis Redfield

Between Daylight and Darkness

Auction Closed

May 17, 10:38 PM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Estate of Angela Gross Folk

Edward Willis Redfield

1869 - 1965

Between Daylight and Darkness

signed E W Redfield (lower right)

oil on canvas

50 by 56 in.

127 by 142 cm.

Executed in 1909.

This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonne on Redfield being compiled by Thomas Folk.

Private Collection (acquired from the artist by descent)
Acquired from the above in 1980 by the present owner

James William Pattinson, “Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture Art Institute, Chicago,” Fine Arts Journal 27, no. 6, 1912, p. 793

L.S., “The Winter Academy,” The Nation 97, no. 2530, 1913, p. 627

Matthew Baigell, A Concise History of American Painting and Sculpture, New York 1984, no. 207, pp. 207 and 209, illustrated

William H. Gerdts, Impressionist New York, New York 1994, pl. 14, pp. 22-23 and 91, illustrated

“Currents,” Pennsylvania Heritage 20, no. 2, 1994, p. 40

J.M.W. Fletcher, Edward Willis Redfield, 1869-1965: An American Impressionist, His Paintings and the Man Behind the Palette, Lahaska, Pennsylvania 1996, no. 65, p. 155

Patricia Tanis Sydney, “The Visual Arts,” in The Genius Belt: The Story of the Arts In Bucks County Pennsylvania, Doylestown, Pennsylvania 1996, pp. 124 and 127

Thomas C. Folk, The Pennsylvania Impressionists, Cranbury, New Jersey 1997, n.p., illustrated

Brigitta H. Bond, “Pennsylvania Impressionists at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915,” in Pennsylvania Impressionists, Philadelphia 2002, p. 328

Exh. Cat., Doylestown, Pennsylvania, James A. Michener Art Museum and Dover, Sewell C. Biggs Museum of American Art, Edward W. Redfield: Just Values and Fine Seeing, 2004, p. 134

William Sharpe, New York Nocturne: The City After Dark in Literature, Painting, and Photography, 1850-1950, Princeton 2008, p. 366

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Sixteenth Annual Exhibition, 1912, no. 254
Art Institute of Chicago, Twenty-Fifth Annual Exhibition of American Sculpture and Oil Paintings, 1912, no. 205
New York, National Academy of Design, Winter Exhibition, 1913, no. 257
London, The Great White City, Anglo-American Exposition, 1914, no. 204, p. 34
San Francisco, Panama-Pacific International Exhibition, 1915, no. 3918, p. 73
San Francisco, Palace of Fine Arts, Post-Exposition Exhibition in the Department of Fine Arts, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1916, no. 5648, p. 55
Grand Rapids, Michigan, Grand Rapids Art Association, Forty-Second Exhibition of Paintings by Edward W. Redfield, 1916
Muskegon, Michigan, Hackely Art Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings by Edward W. Redfield, 1916
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Edward W. Redfield, 1916-17, no. 128
Buffalo, New York, Albright Art Gallery, The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1917, no. 2
Worcester Art Museum, Exhibition of Paintings by Edward W. Redfield, 1917, no. 2
New York, Grand Central Art Galleries, A Retrospective Exhibition of the Work of Edward W. Redfield, 1968, no. 46
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, William Penn Memorial Museum, A Retrospective Exhibition of the Great American Impressionist, Edward Willis Redfield, 1973, no. 55
Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Bucks County Conservancy, 1975, no. 66
New Brunswick, Rutgers University Art Gallery, Edward Redfield, 1981, no. 3, p. 3, illustrated
Phoenix Art Museum and New York, Grand Central Art Galleries, Tonalism: An American Experience, 1982, no. 71, p. 12, illustrated
Allentown, Pennsylvania, Allentown Art Museum; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Westmoreland Museum of Art (and travelling), The Pennsylvania School of Landscape Painting: An Original American Impressionism, 1984-85, pl. 4, fig. 2:12, pp. xvi and 38-39, illustrated
Allentown, Pennsylvania, Allentown Art Museum and Youngstown, Ohio, The Butler Institute of American Art, Edward Redfield: First Master of the Twentieth Century Landscape, 1987-88, no. 6, pp. 43 and 61, illustrated
Doylestown, Pennsylvania, James A. Michener Art Museum, Masterworks of American Impressionism: Edward Redfield and the New Hope Group, 1994