The Road to Center Bridge

Provenance

Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Mr. and Mrs. Goffman, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, acquired from above, 1979

Judy Goffman Fine Art, Pennsylvania, acquired in 1982

Richard Stuart Gallery, Pipersville, Pennsylvania, acquired from above, 1982

Privat collection, acquired from above

Estate of above

Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, New York, May 16, 2024, lot 242, from above

Exhibited

Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Eleventh Annual Exhibition, April 11–June 13, 1907

Literature

Catalogue of the Eleventh Annual Exhibition at the Carnegie Institute, April Eleventh to June Thirteenth, Nineteen Hundred and Seven (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute, 1907), n.p. , no. 387. (as Centre Bridge)

Related Works

Centre Bridge, 1904, oil on canvas, 36 x 50 inches, signed lower right; The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois

Center Bridge in Winter, ca. 1920, oil on canvas, 33¾ x 50 inches, signed lower left; Telfair Museums, Savannah, Georgia

Note: This painting will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist’s work by Thomas Folk.

In 1898, Edward Willis Redfield moved with his wife to Center Bridge, Pennsylvania. Situated along the Delaware River, Center Bridge provided the artist with ample scenic views for his plein-air painting.