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Property from a New York Estate

Edward Willis Redfield

Overlooking the Valley

Lot closes

October 9, 02:07 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 USD

Starting Bid

120,000 USD

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Lot Details

Description

Property from a New York Estate

Edward Willis Redfield

1869 - 1965


Overlooking the Valley

signed EW Redfield (lower left)

oil on canvas

32 by 40 in.

81.3 by 102 cm.

Executed circa 1918.


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

George M. Oyster, Jr., Washington, D.C. (acquired directly from the artist in 1920)

The artist (acquired by exchange from the above circa 1921)

Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York

(probably) Acquired from the above circa 1975 by the present owner

Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Seventh Exhibition Oil Paintings by Contemporary American Artists, 1919-20, no. 96, illustrated

“A Notable Exhibition of American Paintings at the National Capital,” The American Magazine of Art, vol. XI, no. 4, February 1920, p. 123, illustrated

The Kennedy Quarterly, vol. XIV, no. 1, May 1975, pl. 33, p. 36, illustrated (titled Overlooking the Valley, Stockton, New York)

Dorothy W. Phillips, A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in The Corcoran Gallery of Art, vol. 2, Washington, D.C., 1973, p. 80

J.M.W. Fletcher, Edward Willis Redfield, 1869-1965: An American Impressionist, His Paintings and the Man Behind the Palette, Lahaska, Pennsylvania, 1996, p. 25