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Ernest Lawson
1873–1939

Introduction

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.

Wikidata identifier

Q1185478

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Introduction

Canadian/American landscape and cityscape painter, New York City. Comment on works: Landscapes

Roles

Artist, cityscape artist, genre artist, landscape painter, painter

ULAN identifier

500026852

Names

Ernest Lawson, Ernst Lawson, Lawson, Ernest R. A. Lawson, e. lawson

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