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Show Famous Artists Work To Be On Exhibition at National Art Show Here .ti The latest good news received by I tue Springville high school art committee com-mittee is that E. W. Itedfield, Pennsylvania artist, will be one of the exhibitors at the annual national nation-al art show here in April. Mr. Kedfield is one of the foremast fore-mast artists in America, today. His work is found in many of the leading art galleries of America and Is reproduced in a number of the leading magazines. The January 22 cover of The Literary Digest carries one of Mr. Iiedfield's paintings paint-ings It is entitled "Other Days" UUA is a realistic winter scene of truer days. Mr. Itedfield was Iwrn in Bridge-ville, Bridge-ville, Delaware, December 19, 1X69, and now lives in Pennsylvania. In touching on Mr. Redfield's life and work the Literary Digest, says: "Like Walter L. Palmer, whose picture we reproduced on January 28 Mr. Kedfield hns frequently cbosen the winter landscape as a home for his work, and, indeed, he may be said to lead the American landscape school in this particular genre. He studied abroad under Bouguerenn and Toni Robert-Fleury in Paris, and hns the distinction of belDg the first American lnndscap-K lnndscap-K from whom the French Government Govern-ment bought a picture to hang in the Luxembourg Gallery. Honors have been frequently bestowed on him. and so prolific is he that, practically, prac-tically, every prominent gallery in America holds specimens of his work. Quoting from Lorijida M. Bryant's 'American Pictures and Their Painters,' we present ,this estimate of his quality : . 'It would be impossible for Mr. I:edfield to paint a hopeless winter, yet he never fails to make us feel the true spirit of the frost king. There is no sentimental masking of the desolation that follows in tht-wnke tht-wnke of snow nnd ice. At one time we feel the light, fluffy snpw that, soft and warm, is like a wool comforter com-forter ;ahen again the heavy, wet snow that weighs down, like a cheap dotton comforter, with no semblance of warmth and comfort In it. '- . ' '- " ' ' 'He often changes his' polut of view, in deajing with the cranky, uncertain king of winter, but he does it to help lis to a better appreciation appre-ciation -of. the whimsical vagarus of a monarch subject to powers be-vond be-vond him. A certnln desolateness hangs over the bare hillside and heavy flowing river in "The Crest, John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, Indian-apolis, but the tiny settlement snuggled snug-gled against the rough, sliding road and' the glistening snow caught in the hollows suggest that hope still lingers. . His keen appreciation or the latent. power buried under the snow and ice and hidden in the gaunt, leafless trees infuses a sense of life ; The barrenness of the aspect as-pect gives no bint of a dead world -nature is simply accumulating forces as she sleeps '"Possibly because December was Mr. Hedfieid's birth month be was given a deeper knowledge of the old winter king.' Certain it is be never fnilR to give the thrills that the bit- lug air brings,' whether it is to shiver as the dampness clutches us or to laugh as we glide over the soft snow ' .- " 'Kdward W. Kedfield is decidedly decid-edly individual, yet his individuality individual-ity is not of the eccentric kind. He ' works' almost exclusively out-of-doors, nnd very rapidly, so that, many canvases are the result of a season's work. To have one of his 'winter scenes on the wall of a living-room brings joy the season through. In winter the home is the cozier because of the presence of his literal portrnynl of winter, and In summer there comes from it a fcmtli of crisp cold air deliriously refreshing. Many of his paintings are .scenes, from near bis home in the Delaware Valley country, but their Import can not be confined to any special section ; wherever are found ;snov and ice, there is the essence of his art.' " |