Granville Redmond came to prominence as a landscape painter at a time when ideal, tonal landscapes were painted by a substantial percentage of artists both in Southern California and internationally. Foggy, nocturnal, and twilight scenes in which subdued light suppressed details, flattened space, and reduced the range of color to a dominant tonality were characteristic of his early work in Los Angeles. Although many of his paintings are undated, it seems that Redmond continued the tonal style throughout much of his career alongside the brightly colored impressionist scenes that he began to paint about 1912 and for which he is known today. In an interview in 1931 Redmond complained that he preferred to paint pictures of solitude and silence but could only sell poppy fields (in Millier, "Our Artists in Person"). The distinctness of the brushstrokes, uniform in length and direction, creating a tapestrylike quality similar to that in the museum’s California Poppy Field, c. 1926, suggests that Landscape was painted later in Redmond’s career, after the formation of his mature style. It is among the largest and most developed of his later tonal landscapes.