Ernest Lawson
Ernest Lawson | |
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Portrait by William Glackens, 1910 | |
| Born | Ernest Lawson March 22, 1873 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Died | December 18, 1939 (aged 66) Miami, Florida, US |
| Nationality | Canadian, American |
| Education | Kansas City Art Institute (1888); Art Students League, New York (1891), where he was taught by John Twachtman and J. Alden Weir, whose summer school he attended at Cos Cob, Connecticut; Académie Julian, Paris (1893) with Jean-Paul Laurens |
| Known for | painter |
| Spouse | Ella Holman |
| Awards | Universal Exposition in St. Louis in 1904 (silver medal); Corcoran Art Prize, Washington, DC (1916) |
| Elected | Canadian Art Club (1912); National Academy of Design (full member, (1917); National Institute of Arts and Letters |
Ernest Lawson (March 22, 1873 – December 18, 1939) was a Canadian-American painter and exhibited his work at the Canadian Art Club and as a member of the American group The Eight, artists who formed a loose association in 1908 to protest the narrowness of taste and restrictive exhibition policies of the conservative, powerful National Academy of Design. Though Lawson was primarily a landscape painter, he also painted a small number of realistic urban scenes. His painting style is heavily influenced by the art of John Henry Twachtman, J. Alden Weir, and Alfred Sisley. Though considered a Canadian-American Impressionist, Lawson falls stylistically between Impressionism and realism.