During World War II, he enlisted in the U.S. Army, and landed at Omaha Beach in Normandy, France on D-Day with his battalion of combat engineers.

Wright returned from Europe in the 1920s, bringing with him some of the fire of battle from the avant-garde wars of Paris, and although later he was to reject it and retire into a cloister of orientalism, for a time he was an important force for artists in the area.

Classes at his school met on Tuesday and Thursday evenings; he taught a form of synchromy, as well as sketching from the model, and he gave analyses and lectures on the art of the past.

[5]By 1928 or 1929, Redmond was doing scenery painting for the Santa Monica Theater Guild alongside Macdonald-Wright and Art Students League members Carl Winter and Albert King.

[7] After Macdonald-Wright resigned as president of the Art Students' League of Los Angeles, Redmond took over, maintaining the group's studio on Spring Street above the Lyceum Theater between Second and Third,[8] and adeptly administering the organization.

[3] Beginning in June 1932,[9] Redmond scheduled classes and models, and collected fees, and even lived in the studio for a time, no doubt to keep his personal expenses down during the financial doldrums of the Great Depression.

In addition to exhibiting widely in California,[12][13][14][15] Redmond had pieces shown at the Carl Fischer Art Gallery in New York,[16] when he was featured in the Ten Pacific Coast Painters exhibit along with Macdonald-Wright, Nick Brigante, Conrad Buff, Thomas Craig, Charles H. David, Barse Miller, Phyllis Shields, and Vivian Stringfield.

[17]Redmond painted a wide array of subjects, including landscapes, portraits and figures, still lifes, and botanicals, but he particularly drew compliment from Los Angeles Times art critic Arthur Millier (and others)[18] for his pictures of cats.

[3] Millier later called Siamese Cat the "finest canvas" at Redmond's memorial show, with "sheerly beautiful composition" and "strong color harmony".

"[27] California travel writer Brad Nixon comments that Redmond's conscientious approach is evident in the final product: "Those people have 'weight.'

[32] When the United States entered World War II, Redmond enlisted in the U.S. Army in November 1942,[4] even though "he was nearing the age limit of 41".

An interview with Staff Sergeant Redmond is one of the primary sources for the description of the assault on Fox Green sector in the U.S. Army's history of the combat engineers in the European Theater:[35] Team 15 touched down at 0640, just as the tide began rising rapidly, and lost several men to machine gun fire before they left the LCM.

With no choice but to make for shore, they ran, only four of their original 40 uninjured, to the low shingle bank on Fox Green, where they collapsed, "soaking wet, unable to move, and suffering from cramps.

][35]After successfully overwhelming the German defenders at Normandy, Redmond and the rest of the 299th continued moving through Fortress Europe for the next six months, clearing junk, salvaging vehicles, and building bridges over assorted rivers on the road to Hitler's headquarters in Germany.

[36] Redmond fought with his unit for six months after D-Day before he was killed in the vicinity of Witry [fr; nl], outside Martelange, Belgium,[37] in the early morning hours of December 21, 1944.

Amidst the German counteroffensive along the Belgium–Luxembourg border near the Sauer River, Redmond's group had been tasked with recapturing the town of Martelange.

[38] According to the regimental history of the 299th in World War II, "Captain Manion planned to attack Martelange at dawn, and a patrol had been sent out to contact Lieutenant Jenkins' force.