The Road to Center Bridge
c. 1922
Painter, American, 1869 - 1965
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 97.16 × 127 cm (38 1/4 × 50 in.)
framed: 109.22 × 138.43 × 20.32 cm (43 × 54 1/2 × 8 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.92
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Charles C. Glover [1846-1936], Washington;[1] his granddaughter, Anna Hoyer Millar, Baroness Inchyra [1906-1999, née Anna Judith Elisabeth de Marees van Swinderen], London; gift 16 April 1962 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] According to Helen W. Henderson, The Art Treasures of Washington, Boston, 1912: 144.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1909
Exhibition of Paintings by Edward W. Redfield, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 17 April - 16 May 1909, no. 44.
An Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Edward W. Redfield, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 10 October - 8 November 1909, no. 36.
A Collection of Oil Paintings by Mr. Edward W. Redfield, N.A., City Art Museum of St. Louis, Missouri, November 1909, no. 36.
Summer Exhibition of Paintings by Edward W. Redfield, Detroit Museum of Art, July-August 1909, no. 40.
1910
Exhibition of Paintings by Edward W. Redfield, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 3-23 January 1910, no. 31.
1914
Exhibition of Paintings by Edward W. Redfield, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, 1914, no. 32.
1975
Long-term loan, United States Embassy, London, 1975.
1984
The Pennsylvania School of Landscape Painting: An Original American Impressionism, Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania; Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, 1984-1985, (not shown in Chadds Ford).
1987
Long-term loan, Geico, Washington, 29 January 1987 - 11 April 1989.
1994
Long-term loan, United States Embassy, Stockholm, 28 June 1994 - 20 January 1998.
2003
The Impressionist Tradition in America, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 19 July 2003 - 18 October 2004, unpublished checklist.
Bibliography
1910
Laurvik, J. Nilsen. "Edward W. Redfield - Landscape Painter." International Studio 41, no. 162 (August 1910): 31-32, repro.
1973
Phillips, Dorothy W. A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Vol. 2: Painters born from 1850 to 1910. Washington, 1973: 80-81, repro.
1996
Fletcher, J. M. W. Edward Willis Redfield 1869-1965: An American Impressionist, his Paintigns and the Man behind the Palette. Lahaska, Pennsylvania, 1996: 30, fig. 2.
1999
Winter's Promise: Willard Metcalf in Cornish, New Hampshire 1909-1920. MacAdam, Barbara J. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 1999: 26, fig. 19.
2011
Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 314, repro.
Inscriptions
lower right: E.W.Redfield
Wikidata ID
Q46634128