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THBErnest Lawson
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Asheville, NC 28802
United States
Based in Asheville, North Carolina, Brunk Auctions has been conducting sales of fine and decorative arts for over 30 years. Auctions are held in our North Carolina sale room but attracts a global audience. Founded by Robert Brunk in 1983, the auctions became well known for their integrity and profes...Read more
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LiveOct 16, 2024
Including fine art, furniture, silver, maritime art, Native American art, & decorative arts including early ceramics and folk art; a rare Angel Gabriel weathervane; important Kentucky and North Carolina silver; Southern fine art by Hutty, Verner, and a Tennessee scene by James Hope; Charleston and other Southern furniture; American art including works by Sanford Gifford, George de Forest Brush, Theodore Butler, Ernest Lawson, two works by Andrew Wyeth, and others from the collection of Barbara Novak; and important Native American art featuring a Blackfoot war shirt and a Santo Domingo shield. Brunk Auctions support@brunkauctions.com
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(American, 1873-1939)
Melting Snow,-Early Spring, New York,, signed lower middle "E. Lawson", oil on Masonite,
20 x 24 in.; fine ornate carved gilt wood and composition frame, 30 x 33-1/2 in.Provenance: Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts, April 20, 1972 (label verso); to Private Collection, 1972 until the present
Note: For an in-depth discussion of Lawson's work during this period, this scene in particular, see Boyle, Richard J. 1974. American Impressionism. Boston: New York Graphic Society. p. 224, illus. Boyle places this work among the artist's best: "...but when he returned to America to "see what I can do," he found subject matter which suited him. He painted in and around New York City, in Washington Heights for example, and along the Hudson and Harlem rivers. Like Twatchtman, Lawson painted a great many winter scenes, again tackling the problem of white as a color, but unlike Twatchman's, Lawson's style is fairly "rugged." Harlem River and Melting Snow, Early Spring are painted in the style for which he is best known: the paint is applied as a thick impasto of jewel-like color, referred to by critic F.K. Price as a "palette of crushed jewels." Lawson's work is both sensitive and strong, and he was the only member of the Eight to paint pure landscape; but it is, like the painting of Glackens, an extension of impressionist principles. He always did think of himself as a traditionalist, yet his textual and chromatic variations were more personal and post-impressionalist."
Exhibited: American Paintings from Los Angeles Collections, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, 1972; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, May 7-June 30, 1974, label verso; Ernest Lawson, A Retrospective, 1974; University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, 1979, catalog page 47. illustrated no. 15.
Literature: Boyle, Richard J. 1974. American Impressionism. Boston: New York Graphic Society. p. 224, illus.
- Provenance
Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts, April 20, 1972 (label verso); to
Private Collection, 1972 until the present - Shipping Info
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- Condition
scattered small areas of crackle, possible slight surface dirt; frame in good condition overall, small areas of wear
