Ernest Lawson was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in Canada in 1873. In 1888, he enrolled in classes at the Kansas City Art Institute. There, he studied with Ella Holman, whom he would later marry. Lawson realized that there were not many opportunities for artists in Kansas City, and 1890, he moved with his father to Mexico City. He worked as a draughtsman for an English engineering company and studied in the evenings at the San Carlos Art School. By 1890, he had saved enough money to move to New York, and he began studies at the Art Students League under John Henry Twachtman. Lawson developed his Impressionist style while studying under Twachtman and J. Alden Weir at their school in Cos Cob, Connecticut. He became devoted to landscape painting, and this interest remained unchanged throughout his professional life. In 1893, he traveled to France, where he studied in Paris at the Académie Julian under Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant. During his stay in France, Lawson painted at Moret-sur-Loing, near the Fontainebleau forest, where he met Alfred Sisley, who along with Twachtman was the main influence on his work. In 1898, Lawson and his family moved to Washington Heights in Manhattan, and by the turn of the century, his work centered almost exclusively on views of this neighborhood. He and his family moved to Greenwich Village in 1906, and once there Lawson met William Glackens. Through this important and outgoing artist, Lawson became associated with a group of American artists in New York City, including Arthur B. Davies, Maurice Prendergast, William Glackens, Everett Shinn, Robert Henri, John Sloan, and George Luks. This group, who called themselves The Eight, held a well-publicized exhibition at the Macbeth Gallery in New York in February 1908. They were men of widely different tendencies and five of the eight artists were known best for their gritty urban scenes. However, common opposition to academicism, as well as an interest in the daily lives of the middle and lower classes bound all eight artists and the environment in which they lived. A committed landscapist, Lawson always began a work out of doors in the en plein air method. He did not create preliminary drawings but instead painted directly on the canvas. Lawson's work includes pure landscapes, foreign scenes, urban views and rural village scenes. His extremely rich and varied palette has been described as having a crushed jewel effect. Like the Impressionists, Lawson used intensely contrasting colors and rough impasto textures in his work and he had a particular interest in the effect of light on the surface of the landscape. After Lawson became associated with the artists of The Eight, his work became progressively less picturesque. Lawson created many winter landscapes during the first two decades of the 20th century and in them, the impasto and brushstrokes take on their structural significance.
Original Ernest Lawson Plein Air New York Painting of Wooded Landscape
By Ernest Lawson
Located in Tustin, CA
Beautiful original plein air impressionistic and realistic style, oil on canvas painting, features a wooded landscape, with magnificent trees which dwarf a woman and child, who are w...
Canvas
"Cheyenne Mountain (Summer in Colorado)" Ernest Lawson, Modernist Western Scene
By Ernest Lawson
Located in New York, NY
Ernest Lawson Cheyenne Mountain (Summer in Colorado), circa 1927-30 Signed lower center Oil on canvas 12 x 16 inches Provenance Mrs. Bertram H. Catzen Manor Circle Gallery, Pelham, ...
Canvas, Oil
Sketch for Post Office Mural in Short Hills, New Jersey
By Ernest Lawson
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Ernest Lawson is an artist who defies easy categorization. His work exhibits characteristics of both Impressionism and realism. In fact, he studied with the American Impressionists, ...
Oil, Board
Ernest Lawson Oil on Board Painting Titled "Zoo in Central Park"
By Ernest Lawson
Located in New York, NY
In many ways Ernest Lawson bridges the work of the American Impressionists and the Realists of Robert Henri’s circle. Although he is often thought of as a painter of pure landscapes, who’s primary interests were light and atmospheric effects, after settling in Washington Heights...
Oil
$12,500
H 60 in W 50 in
Scottish Highland landscape with pony, setter dogs, Red Grouse, day shooting
By Robert Cleminson
Located in Woodbury, CT
Scottish Highland landscape scene with English Setter gun dogs, the day's bag, and Red Grouse, after a day shooting. M. Fawcett was a pseudo name for Robe...
Oil
$1,200
H 17 in W 13 in D 1.25 in
"View of the Empire State NYC in Snow" Impressionistic Ashcan School Style
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
An impressionistic depiction of a figure in the snow with cars and buildings in the busy City Streets. The Empire State Building is portrayed in the background as the snow filled str...
Canvas, Oil, Board
$5,000
H 24 in W 27 in D 2 in
"Summer Day at Nice" French Beach Scene Impressionistic Oil Painting on Canvas
By Suzanne Demarest
Located in New York, NY
A stunning oil painting scene depicting figures by the beach in a sunny day at Nice, France done in the 20th Century. The vibrant colors and impressionistic brushwork is done with bo...
Canvas, Oil
Impressionist Plein Air Signed Philips
Located in Redding, CT
Impressionist Plein Air Impressionist Painting by Philips. Hand Carved solid wood frame. Very reminiscent of Monet.
Canvas, Wood, Paint
$67,378
H 21.46 in W 29.53 in D 3.94 in
Original circa 1880-90 Robert Gemmell Hutchison Oil on Canvas Painting a New Toy
By Robert Hutchinson
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning original circa 1880-1890 Robert Gemmell Hutchinson R.S.A oil on canvas titled “A New Toy” I fell in love with this Gemmell the secon...
Canvas
$16,876
H 24.5 in W 30 in
A Walk in the Forest - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil by Gustave Cariot
By Gustave Camille Gaston Cariot
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated oil on board figures in landscape by French post impressionist painter Gustave Cariot. The piece is set in Wiesbaden, Germany depicts a breathtaking view of the Rive...
Oil, Board
$25,429
H 20 in W 25 in
Repos dans un champs de coquelicots - Pointillist Landscape Oil by Yvonne Canu
By Yvonne Canu
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed pointillist oil on panel figures in landscape by French neo-impressionist painter Yvonne Canu. This stunning piece depicts a couple resting under a parasol in a field of wildf...
Board, Oil
$3,365
H 19.69 in W 23.23 in
Nordic Mountain Landscape with Winding River, Oil Painting 1936
Located in Stockholm, SE
Axel Haggren (1898–1968) Sweden Mountain Landscape, 1936 signed and dated lower left A. Haggren -36 oil on panel unframed 39 × 49 cm (15.4 × 19.3 in) framed 50 × 59 cm (19.7 × 23.2...
Oil, Board
$14,000
H 38 in W 55 in D 1 in
"Mothers and Children on the Beach" - Colorful Bright Impressionist in Oil Paint
By Don Hatfield
Located in Carmel, CA
Don Hatfield (American, born 1947) "Mothers and Children on the Beach" Unknown Oil paint, canvas, stretcher bars Signed on the bottom right of the painting. Don Hatfield’s 'Mothers ...
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
$1,950
H 24.13 in W 20.13 in
Contemporary landscape oil painting cows pastoral mountain field grassland sky
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Sheridan Herd" is an original oil painting on masonite by Heather Foster. The artist initialed the work in the lower right. This painting depicts a herd of cows in a yellow hilly me...
Masonite, Oil
$3,000
H 27.75 in W 33.75 in D 1.5 in
"Autumn Landscape" Colorful Pastoral Landscape Oil Painting on Canvas Framed
By Robert Waltsak
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful impressionist pastoral landscape in the Autumn season with beautiful color tones throughout. Waltsak has portrayed this piece in a most intimate, yet energetic way, and h...
Canvas, Oil
$12,600
H 16 in W 20 in D 3 in
‘Cottage By a River’ post impressionist original oil on board, framed
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Post Impressionist painting by J. Samuel LaMorna Birch (1869-1955) of French style stucco cottage, with blocks of color reflected in the still river waters. Masterful artist of water...
Oil, Board
Little Ranch, Colorado by Ernest Lawson
By Ernest Lawson
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ernest Lawson 1873-1939 Canadian-American Little Ranch, Colorado Signed "E. Lawson" (lower right) Signed, titled and inscribed "119 East 19th St / N.Y. City" (en verso) Oil on can...
Canvas, Oil
New York Farm in Winter, 1913
By Ernest Lawson
Located in New York, NY
Ernest Lawson brings his unique style to the representation of a snowy farm scene in his artwork entitled, “New York Farm in Winter.”
Canvas, Oil
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H 20 in W 24 in D 1.75 in
1920s Colorado Mountain Landscape Oil Painting Farm, Jewel Tones Green Purple
By Ernest Lawson
Located in Denver, CO
Oil on board painting titled 'Little Ranch, Colorado' by Earnest Lawson (1873-1939) circa 1925-1930. Colorado mountain landscape scene with three structu...
Oil, Board
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H 16 in W 20 in
Summer Reflections, Hudson River, Ernest Lawson New York Impressionist Landscape
By Ernest Lawson
Located in New York, NY
Ernest Lawson (1873 - 1939) Summer Reflections, Inwood on the Hudson River, New York, circa 1905 Oil on canvasboard 12 x 16 inches Signed lower left Provenance: Macbeth Gallery, Ne...
Oil, Board
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H 13.5 in W 16 in
"Trees and Rocks, " Ernest Lawson, Ashcan American Impressionism Modern Landscape
By Ernest Lawson
Located in New York, NY
Ernest Lawson (1873 - 1939) Trees and Rocks Oil on board 7 15/16 x 10 1/4 inches Signed lower left: E. LAWSON; inscribed on verso: Trees + Rock / Ernest Lawson / Trees + Rock Provenance: Gift of the artist By descent in the artist’s family Private collection Christie’s New York, New York, March 4, 2003, Lot 62 Avery Galleries, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania Private collection, 2005 Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York, acquired from above, 2006 Private collection, Connecticut, acquired from above, 2007 Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York, acquired from above, 2014 Private collection, Georgia, acquired from above, 2015 Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina, March 23, 2018, Lot 495 Exhibited: Halifax, Canada, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Ernest Lawson; From Nova Scotia Collections, August 12 - October 30, 1983, no. 10. Literature: Questroyal Fine Art, WHY, New York, May 2014, p. 22, illustrated. A small, densely painted composition Trees and Rocks displays Ernest Lawson’s signature encrusted surface. His energetic paint application is composed of layer upon layer of color. While the pigments blend together in many areas, others are defined by a patch or dab of unmixed color. These impastoed brushstrokes or slashes of the palette knife are often the brightest colors, heightening the overall tonality of the work. Additionally, Lawson scratched at the paint layer – dragging the back of the brush through the wet pigments, to further invigorate the overall facture. Trees and Rocks, looks incredibly fresh, as if Lawson just stumbled upon this landscape motif of a few rocks, some trees, and a lake in the background. Boldly, Lawson painted the sky as a series of white dabs placed atop the blue water and the encircling trees. Since his days at John Twachtman’s and J. Alden Weir’s summer school in Cos Cob, Connecticut in 1892, Lawson was in the habit of wandering around in search of a motif. While his technique varied over time, he devotedly focused on creating a sense of the atmosphere of each place, recording his impressions of the light and season. Scholars have noted that after his trip to Spain in 1916-17, Lawson painted a set of diminutive landscape...
Oil, Board
On The Rialto, Mexico City
By Ernest Lawson
Located in Denver, CO
Housed in a period (likely original) frame, outer dimensions measure 23 x 27 ¼ x 1 inches; image dimensions measure 16 x 20 inches. About the Artist: Ernest Lawson (1873 San Franci...
Canvas, Oil