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(American 1867-1944) "MONTMARTRE" oil on canvas 37 x 47 in. (94 x 119.4 cm). Painted circa 1896. Provenance: Collection of Margaret E. Phillips, Langhorne, Pennsylvania. Exhibited: Brandywine River Museum, Chadd's Ford, Pennsylvania "Walter Elmer Schofield," Sept. 10 - Nov. 20, 1983, Cat. No. 28. Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania "Pennsylvania School of Landscape Painting - An Original American Impressionism - Touring Exhibition" Sept. 16 - Nov. 25, 1984. The Corcoran Gallery at Art, Washington, D. C. "December 14 - February 10, 1985. Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania March 2 - May 5, 1985. Brandywine River Museum, Chadd's Ford, Pennsylvania. June 1 - September 2, 1985. Literature: "Schofield made his second trip to Europe about 1896. He may have painted "Montmartre (ca. 1896, Collection of Margaret E. Phillips) at this time. This corner cafe scene, with its proudly displayed flags and colorful awnings and signs, seems to recall the Cafe Momus from productions of Puccini's "La Boheme." This work indicates that Schofield had knowledge of the art of the Nabi, a group of French painters whose work emphasized bright colors, flattened forms and decorative patterning. Paintings by the Nabi were gaining prominence in the 1890s and even Henri, who was in Paris at the time, produced a number of works influenced by the Nabi artists, Pierre Bonnard and Jean Edouard Vuillard." from "The Pennsylvania School of Landscape Painting - An Original American Impressionism" by Dr. Thomas Folk, pub. Allentown Art Museum, 1984, pg. 47, illus. pg. 47 (fig 2:24). "Walter Elmer Schofield - Bold Impressionist" by Dr. Thomas Folk, pub. Brandywine Conservancy, 1983 pg. 12, illus. pg. 13.