A significant amount of Granville Redmond’s paintings were of dark nighttime scenes with the moon shining bright. Oftentimes they were created using different tones of just one color and were described as being tonalist. Tonalism was an artistic style that emerged in the 1880s when American artists began to paint landscape forms with an overall tone of colored atmosphere. Between 1880 and 1915, dark, neutral hues such as gray, brown, or blue often dominated compositions by artists associated with the style. Some describe these paintings as emphasizing mood and shadow.