Concurrently, he had begun to use more expressive, calligraphic bruslistrokes creating the style for which he would become famous and attracting a whole group of landscape painters to this region. Laurel Run, a stream in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, is a particularly fine example of Redfield's snow scenes. The sun-dappled winter landscape with a stream flowing rapidly through it is one of a handful of motifs in which he specialized. In this work, the artist was especially fluent in his mastery of texture. Rich, heavily-impastoed pigments spontaneously, yet eloquently, capture the delicate tracery of the wintry screen of leafless branches, trunks, and bushes, the icy wet flow of the rushing stream, and the varied bulk of the wet, fallen snow as outlined in the crisp light and further defined by the dancing blue shadows.
Further interest is created through careful design.
Redfield painted all of his works on site and energetically, at one go, to impart a direct spontaneity and truth to their interpretation of the surroundings. In Laurel Run, there is an intimacy which results from the artisfs familiarity with his subject and spontaneous depiction of it. Redfield continued to paint landscapes in the Delaware River Valley until 1953 . During these five decades of activity, he exhibited extensively in group and solo exhibitions and earned more medals than any other American artist except John Singer Sargent. The height of Redfield's career was certainly the period of Laurel Run.