Ernest Lawson

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.

Exhibitions

4 exhibitions

Dec 12, 1929 – Jan 12, 1930

Paintings by 19 Living Americans

19 artists

Oct 31, 1932 – Feb 11, 1933

American Painting and Sculpture, 1862–1932

77 artists · 1 curator

Nov 08, 1937 – Dec 13, 1937

Paintings for Paris

36 artists

May 24, 1938 – Jul 31, 1938

Three Centuries of American Art

247 artists · 7 curators