Background
Redfield, Edward Willis was born in 1869 in Bridgeville, Delaware, United States. Son of Bradley and Frances (Gale) Redfield.
Redfield, Edward Willis was born in 1869 in Bridgeville, Delaware, United States. Son of Bradley and Frances (Gale) Redfield.
Pupil Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts and under Bouguereau and Fleury, Paris, France.
Gold medal Art Club of Philadelphia, 1896. Bronze medal Paris Exposition, 1900, Buffalo Exposition, 1901. Temple gold medal Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1903.
2d Hallgarten prize National Academy, 1904.
Shaw Fund prize Society American Artists, 1904. Silver medal Saint Louis Exposition, 1904.
Jenny Sesnan gold medal Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts, 1905. Webb prize Society American Artists, 1905.
Silver medal Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1905.
Fisher prize and Corcoran bronze medal Corcoran Gallery Art, Washington, 1907. Gold medal of honor Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts, 1907. 1st Clark prize and Corcoran gold medal Corcoran Gallery, 1908.
Honorable mention Paris Salon, 1908, 3d medal, 1909.
Gold medal Buenos Aires (South America) Exposition, 1910. Walter Lippincott prize Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts, 1911.
Gold medal Society Washington Artists, 1913. Potter Palmer gold medal and 1st prize The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, 1913.
Gold medal and 1st prize Carnegie Institute, 1914.
1st prize Wilmington Society of Artists, 1915. Carnegie prize, 1917, Altman prize, 1919, National Academy of Design. Stotesbury prize Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts, 1921.
Carnegie prize National Academy of Design, 1922.
Brown and Bigelow competition, prize $1,500, 1925. Saltus medal National Academy of Design, 1927.
Heinz prize $1000, Grand Central Art Galleries, 1928. 1st prize Springfield Society of Artists, Newport (Rhode Island) Art Association Represented in permanent collections The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, Carnegie Institute Pittsburgh, Academy Fine Arts, Art Club Philadelphia, Boston Art Club, New Orleans Art Association, Telfair Academy Fine Arts, Savannah, Corcoran Gallery, Brooklyn Institute Arts and Sciences, John Herron The Art Institute of Chicago, Indianapolis, Luxembourg, Detroit Museum Art, National Gallery, Buenos Aires, Cooke Collection, Honolulu, Peabody Museum, Baltimore, Metropolitan Museum, New York, Lincoln (Nebraska) Art Association, Des Moines Art Association, Los Angeles Art Museum, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, Butler Museum, Youngstown, O., Memorial Art Gallery, Philadelphia, Rochester Memorial Gallery, Gary (Indiana) Public School Collection, Memphis Art Museum, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Montclair (New Jersey) Art Museum, Boston Art Museum, Parkway Museum, Philadelphia Conojoharie (New York) Museum, Rhode Island Museum, Providence School Design, Whitney Museum, New York, Smithsonian Gallery of Art, Springville (Utah) Art Gallery.
Member International Jury of Award, Panama Philippine Islands Exposition, 1915. Member National Academy of Design, National Institute Arts and Letters.
Married Elise Deligant, May 11, 1893 (deceased). Children: Elizabeth (deceased), Laurent, Horace (deceased), Louise, George Edward (deceased), Frances.