Ernest Lawson

1873–1939 · Expressionism & Early Modernism

Ernest Lawson 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.

6 paintings

• Ice-Bound Falls (1919)
• New York Street Scene (1905)
• Boathouse, Winter, Harlem River (c. 1916)
• High Bridge at Night, New York City (c. 1910/1920)
• Landscape near the Harlem River (1913)
• River (1913)