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"The Canal Stockton" by Edward Redfield
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"Edward Redfield won many awards in rapid succession, including a Gold Medal from the Art Club of Philadelphia in 1896, a bronze medal from the Paris Exposition in 1900, a prize from the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo in 1901, and the Temple Medal from the Pennsylvania Academy in 1903; and by 1904 he won the Second Hallgarten Prize from the National Academy of Design, the Shaw Fund Prize from the Society of American Artists, and a silver medal from the St. Louis Exposition. Such honors continued to be awarded to Redfield in profusion until the 1930s. He was considered the head of the leading school of landscape painting by such critics as Du Bois and Laurvik, and because he often served on juries of award and selection committees, he was in part responsible for which landscape paintings would receive approval and win awards.
Therefore he had a key position in American landscape painting during the early twentieth century, which perhaps provoked such a criticism as this one: 'He has been the recipient of a considerable amount of praise, at the same time that whispered suspicions and no end of scandal, art scandal be it understood, have hovered about him as persistently as atmosphere.'"
To be continued
(Excerpts from "The Pennsylvania Impressionists" by Thomas Folk.)
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