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Once he started painting spring scenes, Redfield's most desirable were energetic works, brightly sunlit, with abundant budding trees and flowers such as Spring at Point Pleasant. The scene is rendered with short, thick brushwork and captures the freshness and vitality of a gorgeous spring day.
During the late 1910s Redfield began to focus on impressionistic spring scenes, which are among his most beautiful works and reflect the same painterly methods and rapid, spontaneous handling of paint seen in his snow scenes.
Although Redfield is best known for his snow scenes, he painted several spring and summer landscapes, often set in Maine, where he spent his summers. Specifically, Redfield spent several summers on Monhegan Island, situated ten miles off the coast of Maine.
Once he started painting spring scenes, Redfield's most desirable were energetic works, brightly sunlit, with abundant budding trees and flowers. Spring at Mount Pleasant on the Delaware River is one such work.
This bright, Impressionist palette and spontaneity of paint surface that Redfield developed abroad is clearly evident in Spring at Point Pleasant on the Delaware River. Thick strokes of paint have been quickly yet adeptly applied to the canvas.
Redfield started to set numerous spring scenes there in the 1910s, thus showing an early attachment to the locale, further confirmed in a 1929 interview during which the artist confessed: "there is a real 'church': go there at sundown and watch the changing colors in earth and sky and water. it is a place to worship."
Despite the fact that amid his lifetime, Redfield was acclaimed principally for his winter scenes, the spring scenes are among his most prized artistic creations today. In later years, Edward Willis Redfield became dissatisfied his early works and in 1947 he burned a large number of paintings that he considered sub-standard.
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