Walter Elmer Schofield was an American Impressionist landscape and marine painter. Although he never lived in New Hope or Bucks County, Schofield is regarded as one of the Pennsylvania Impressionists.
Schofield in his studio at St. Ives, Cornwall, 1907
Bust of W. Elmer Schofield (1905), by Charles Grafly, National Academy of Design
"Godolphin House." Schofield and his family owned the property from 1937 to 2007.
The Hill Country (c.1913), Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia. Winner of PAFA's 1914 Temple Gold Medal
New Hope is a borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,612 at the 2020 census. New Hope is located approximately 30 mi (48 km) north of Philadelphia, and lies on the west bank of the Delaware River at its confluence with Aquetong Creek. New Hope and neighboring Solebury and Upper Makefield townships are part of the Philadelphia metropolitan area. The two-lane New Hope–Lambertville Bridge carries automobile and foot traffic across the Delaware to Lambertville, New Jersey, on the east bank. New Hope's primary industry is tourism.
New Hope station in October 2010
Lehigh Canal, Sunset, New Hope, PA, a 1918 portrait by Joseph Pickett
New Hope station in 1945
Main Street in New Hope
