EDWARD WILLIS REDFIELD

Vintage Autograph

Autograph letter, 2 pages with integral leaf, Center Bridge, PA

October 12, 1919 

to reporter [Mary Ethel] McAuley

In part: "...I find that your question addressed to me has been

lost in the fall shuttle ... / I feel much as a dog with a can attached

to his tail - hustling -- yes! to what end - to shake the can -

You ask should art be moral - answer - it is -- the other isn't! ..."

Signed: "E. W. Redfield"

Condition: very good, light handling

Edward Willis Redfield was an American Impressionist painter. 

Noted for his landscapes of his native Pennsylvania. Best known today 

for his impressionist scenes of the New Hope area, often depicting the

snow-covered countryside. 

Leader of group of Pennsylvanian landscape artists, including Daniel Garber,

Walter Schofeld and Robert Spencer. 

Born: 1869, Bridgeville, Delaware; died: 1965, Center Bridge, Pennsylvania.