
Thomas H. Redfield, Jr. works, Main Gallery
Redfield & Redfield
September 16 – November 11, 2023
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Redfield & Redfield explores the legacy of landscape painting across two generations by showcasing the work of Palos Verdes plein air painter Thomas H. Redfield, Jr., alongside a sampling of historical artwork by his great-grandfather, acclaimed Pennsylvania Impressionist Edward Willis Redfield.
Thomas H. Redfield, Jr. is a landscape painter who continues an American and family tradition of plein air painting in an Impressionist style. His dedication to traditional landscape painting has earned him membership in the Portuguese Bend Artist Colony. Formed in 1998, the Colony has included artists Stephen Mirich, Daniel Pinkham, Vicki Pinkham, Amy Sidrane, Kevin Prince, Richard Humphrey, and Redfield.
Redfield has exhibited at the Pasadena Museum of Art, the Autry Museum of the American West, the Muckenthaler Cultural Center, and Malaga Cove Library. His painting are in private and corporate collections throughout California and the West.
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Edward Willis Redfield works, Main Gallery
Edward Willis Redfield (1869 –1965), was an American Impressionist painter and seminal member of the art colony in New Hope, Pennsylvania. He is best known for his rural winter scenes of the New Hope countryside, and depictions of Monhegan Island, Maine. Redfield is acknowledged as a historically significant member of the Pennsylvania School of Landscape Painters, who strove to create an authentic American style of painting.
Redfield’s paintings are in many public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, among others. He is regarded as one of the most decorated American artists of the twentieth century.
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Edward Willis Redfield Gallery
Thomas H. Redfield, Jr. Gallery
Thomas H. Redfield, Jr. is a landscape painter who continues an American and family tradition of plein air painting in an Impressionist style. His dedication to traditional landscape painting has earned him membership in the Portuguese Bend Artist Colony. Formed in 1998,the Colony has included artists Stephen Mirich, Daniel Pinkham, Vicki Pinkham, Amy Sidrane, Kevin Prince, Richard Humphrey, and Redfield.
Born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania in 1959, Redfield later moved with his family to Maine,Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Delaware before relocating to California near his twelfthbirthday. Inspired by the paintings of his great-grandfather, Edward Willis Redfield, he began painting at a young age when his mother bought him a small paint set.
A lover of nature, Tom Redfield has lived his life in the outdoors, working as a commercial fisherman, professional diver, longshoreman, and plein air painter. Informally trained, he entered the professional art world when Dan and Vicki Pinkham invited him into the Portuguese Bend Artist Colony. As Redfield relates, “I was once a longshoreman who painted. Now I am a painter who used to longshore.”
The paintings on view span the latter part of his career, and include landscapes, seascapes,and figure studies. A quick look at the exhibition reveals works executed predominately in Impressionist style. On closer examination, a range of technique is seen. The centerpiece of the show is a forest scene of a snow-surrounded brook, reminiscent of his great-grandfather’s famous winter scenes of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. In other paintings, the palette is reduced to blues and oranges, the illusion of depth intrinsic to realism flattened to abstraction. But, in the tradition of landscape painters before him, Redfield is always true to the nature he loves.
Redfield has exhibited at the Pasadena Museum of Art, the Autry Museum of the American West, the Muckenthaler Cultural Center, and Malaga Cove Library. His painting are in private and corporate collections throughout California and the West.
Edward Willis Redfield (1869 –1965), was an American Impressionist painter and seminal member of the art colony in New Hope, Pennsylvania. He is best known for his rural winter scenes of the New Hope countryside, and depictions of Monhegan Island, Maine. Redfield is acknowledged as a historically significant member of the Pennsylvania School of Landscape Painters, who strove to create an authentic American style of painting.
Though in later years he adopted a Tonalist style to render urban scenes in New York, his lasting impact is as an American Impressionist working in quickly applied impasto, using a bold palette to intimately capture the Pennsylvania landscape.
Born in Bridgeville, Delaware, he attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he studied under Thomas Anshutz whose teaching focused on the human figure. While at the Academy, he met painter Robert Henri, who later joined Redfield in travels to France, where they studied at the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts. In Europe, Redfield was exposed to the works of painters Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro,Impressionists he greatly admired.
On his return to America, Redfield settled near New Hope, Pennsylvania, where he was a co-founder and leader of a group of painters, known as the New Hope School, which included William Langson Lathrop and Daniel Garber. Inspired by European Impressionist techniques, they created a unique idiom to depict the Bucks County countryside.
Redfield exhibited at the National Academy of Design and received honors at the Paris
Exhibition (Exhibition Universelle), the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the St. Louis World’s Fair, the Corcoran Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Panama-Pacific Exposition. He was elected an academician of the National Academy of Design in 1906.
Redfield’s paintings are in many public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, among others. He is regarded as one of the most decorated American artists of the twentieth century.
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