LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

37.99 in. (96.50 cm.) (height) by 50.00 in. (127.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'E.W. Redfield' (lower left, signed again, dated ‘Oct 13. 1928.’ and inscribed with title (on the stretcher)

Exhibited:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Art Club of Philadelphia, An Exhibition of Landscape Paintings by Edward Redfield , December 5-25, 1929, no. 16 (as Monhegan Rock Garden ). New York, Grand Central Art Galleries, Exhibition of Landscape Paintings by Edward W. Redfield , January 7-31, 1930. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute, Annual Exhibition , 1946, no. 223

Literature:

J. Curtis, W. Curtis, F. Lieberman, Monhegan: The Artist’s Island , Camden, Maine, 1995, p. 52, illustrated. J.M.W. Fletcher, Edward Willis Redfield (1869-1965), An American Impressionist: His Paintings and the Man Behind the Palette , Lahaska, Pennsylvania, 1996, pp. 3, 191, fig. 2, no. 927, cover illustration. J.M.W. Fletcher, Edward Willis Redfield (1869-1965), An American Impressionist: The Redfield Letters , vol. 2, Lahaska, Pennsylvania, 2002, pp. 401, 445, no. 263, illustrated. C. Kimmerle, Edward Redfield: Just Values and Fine Seeing , Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 2005, p. 36, illustrated

Provenance:

Grand Central Art Galleries, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Martino, Oakbrook, Illinois. Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 27 October 1978, lot 140. Private collection. Sotheby’s, New York, 29 May 1981, lot 56. David Findlay Jr. Gallery, New York. Acquired by the present owner from the above, circa 1981