Ernest Lawson (American/Canadian, 1873–1939) Rocky Coast, Nova Scotia Signed 'E. Lawson' bottom right, oil on canvas laid down to panel 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8cm) Executed in 1919. provenance: Hirschl & Adler Galleries Inc., New York, New York. Chapellier Galleries Inc., New York, New York. ACA Galleries, New York, New York. John H. Surovek, Palm Beach, Florida. Private Collection, Pennsylvania. Hammer Galleries, New York, New York. Private Collection, Washington, D.C., since 1993. NOTE: Although he spent most of his career in the United States, Ernest Lawson was born in Canada and regularly returned to his home in Nova Scotia. The present work was executed in June 1919, while the artist was visiting Halifax, where the Nova Scotia Museum of Fine Arts offered to curate an exhibition of his work. It is typical of Lawson's landscape vision, and shares many characteristics with his other Canadian subjects. Here, the artist renders Nova Scotia's rocky terrain through vigorous brushstrokes and a generous impasto, while he delineates the region's famous boulders in solid blacks, where other Impressionists may have chosen a lighter palette. His forms are solidly outlined, confirming Frank Goodyear's statement: "Lawson never lost sight of form and structure." Lawson's Canadian subjects denote a more personal feeling, which appealed to collectors and museums alike, such as the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, which chose Peggy Cove, Nova Scotia as the first of Lawson's works to enter their collection.
Ernest Lawson (American/Canadian, 1873–1939) Rocky Coast, Nova Scotia Signed 'E. Lawson' bottom right, oil on canvas laid down to panel 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8cm) Executed in 1919. provenance: Hirschl & Adler Galleries Inc., New York, New York. Chapellier Galleries Inc., New York, New York. ACA Galleries, New York, New York. John H. Surovek, Palm Beach, Florida. Private Collection, Pennsylvania. Hammer Galleries, New York, New York. Private Collection, Washington, D.C., since 1993. NOTE: Although he spent most of his career in the United States, Ernest Lawson was born in Canada and regularly returned to his home in Nova Scotia. The present work was executed in June 1919, while the artist was visiting Halifax, where the Nova Scotia Museum of Fine Arts offered to curate an exhibition of his work. It is typical of Lawson's landscape vision, and shares many characteristics with his other Canadian subjects. Here, the artist renders Nova Scotia's rocky terrain through vigorous brushstrokes and a generous impasto, while he delineates the region's famous boulders in solid blacks, where other Impressionists may have chosen a lighter palette. His forms are solidly outlined, confirming Frank Goodyear's statement: "Lawson never lost sight of form and structure." Lawson's Canadian subjects denote a more personal feeling, which appealed to collectors and museums alike, such as the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, which chose Peggy Cove, Nova Scotia as the first of Lawson's works to enter their collection.
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