Around 1908 William Glackens began to change his style from the darker palette associated with The Eight to a more Impressionist style. Richard J. Wattenmaker has written about New England Landscape, which he dates to this period, "After the publicity surrounding the exhibition of the Eight at the Macbeth Gallery in February 1908, and while that exhibition toured the country, Glackens took the decisive step of relinquishing the monochromatic palette of his previous work and became a full-fledged "impressionist." Notably reminiscent of Ernest Lawson in its emphasis on textures and with surprisingly bright strokes of green and yellow, this Landscape [New England Landscape] expresses a pervasive gentleness that can be associated with Lawson's French sources, Sisley and Pissarro. The canvas also demonstrates that Glackens was familiar with the American adherents of impressionism, specifically the legacy of such men as Theodore Robinson, Frank Benson, and Willard Metcalf." (J. Wattenmaker, William Glackens: The Formative Years, Kraushaar Galleries, New York, 1991, n.p.)