Breezy Day - Early Autumn

Philadelphia-born Schofield studied at the Pennsylvania Academy with Thomas Anshutz and met weekly with fellow students Robert Henri, John Sloan, William Glackens and Edward Redfield at Henri’s studio.

Artist and critic, Guy Pène du Bois described the American qualities of Schofield’s impressionism, “Its realism, which began as being French, is now essentially American. It is a painting of great breadth, almost brutal in the extent to which it carries the gospel of the insignificant detail. The show of economy thus made it brave—or brazen.”