The Collection
Edward
Willis Redfield (1869-1965)
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| Late Afternoon (Delaware River) Oil on canvas; 38 1/8 x 49 7/8”
Purchase, 1959 |
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Edward Willis Redfield is one of the most important
artists in all of American art history, and is the foremost representative
of the Pennsylvania School of Impressionism. Woodmere Art Museum is
blessed with a remarkable example of Redfield’s painting with Late
Afternoon (Delaware River). The painting was purchased directly
from the artist in 1959 and was part of a one-man retrospective held at
the museum during the same year. It is one of Redfield’s classic panoramic winter scenes, showing a vista from Mike Mullins Hill across the
Delaware River to New Jersey, at Center Bridge, Pennsylvania, where
Redfield had settled in 1898. Late Afternoon remains one of the
most popular works in Woodmere’s permanent collection.
Woodmere
Art Museum -
9201 Germantown Avenue - Philadelphia, PA 19118
Corner of Germantown Avenue and Bells Mill Road in Chestnut Hill
Telephone 215-247-0476
Fax 215-247-2387
Accredited by the American Associations of Museums
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