Road and River

This sleigh scene, painted out-of-doors, depicts an area along the Delaware River near Redfield's home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He maintained an almost fanatical insistence on painting directly from nature in one sitting, often spending hours in the snow and cold with his canvas fastened to a tree. Redfield became a dominant force in American landscape painting during the early twentieth century and his work influenced many other artists including other members of the Pennsylvania Impressionists.