Edward Willis Redfield (December 18, 1869 – October 19, 1965) was an American Impressionist landscape painter and member of the art colony at New Hope, Pennsylvania.

He showed artistic talent at an early age, and from 1887 to 1889 studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.

Anshutz maintained the teaching methods of Thomas Eakins, which focused on an intense study of the nude as well as on human anatomy.

In Europe, Redfield admired the work of impressionist painters Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Norwegian Fritz Thaulow.

He was one of the first painters to move to the area, and is sometimes considered a co-founder of the artist colony at New Hope along with William Langson Lathrop, who arrived in the same year.

[2] Redfield would be considered the leader of a group of landscape painters who settled near the Delaware River, north of the Pennsylvania town of New Hope.

Art critic and well-known artist, Guy Pene Du Bois wrote,"The Pennsylvania School of Landscape Painters, whose leader is Edward W. Redfield, is our first truly national expression...

He wrote," Among the men who have done most to infuse an authentic note of nationalism into contemporary American Art, Edward Redfield occupies a prominent position.

"[5] Unlike New York City or Boston, Philadelphia (with the exceptions of Hugh Breckenridge and Daniel Garber, both of whom taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts there), never really developed as a mecca for Impressionist painters.

Redfield's artistic associates from Philadelphia, including Henri, John Sloan, William Glackens and George Luks (the Ashcan School) had already moved to Manhattan.

He built a heavy impasto, "in one go" or in one session, usually outdoors, often under brutal winter weather conditions, roping the backs of his often huge canvases to trees, so that they would not blow away in the wind.

His works were exhibited nationwide, and twenty-seven of them were featured at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915) in San Francisco, an important venue for artists of the time.

[10] Beginning in 1903,the Redfield family (the artist and his wife had five children) spent their summers at Boothbay Harbor Maine, due to the generosity of Dr. Samuel Woodward, who financed these annual vacations.

[11] Actually, lobster was Redfield's favorite food and he designed a dining table at his Boothbay Harbor home that had 5 inch wooden walls which was covered in linoleum, so that the artist and his family could enjoy devouring these red crustaceans without fear of ruining the finish of a dining room table!