Artwork
High Bridge, Harlem River
Artist
Ernest Lawson
(American, 1873 - 1939)
DepartmentAmerican Art
Date1912
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions40 x 50 in. (101.6 x 127 cm)
Credit LineSan Antonio Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by the Elizabeth and George Coates Fund
Object number73.129
GeographyPlace madeUnited States
Label TextThe light colors and delicate brushwork in this painting, as well as its heavily tactile surface, soften and beautify a modern industrial scene. Lawson’s large landscape, both industrial and residential, represents a view across the Harlem River at 175th Street and Tenth Avenue between the boroughs of the Bronx and Manhattan.
Unlike the rest of his colleagues in The Eight—the group of artists also dubbed The Ashcan School by critics—Ernest Lawson focused on landscape rather than on people. In addition, his interests embraced both the urban, modern city, such as this painting, as well as more rural areas.
(William Keyse Rudolph, 2014)ProvenancePresented 1912, New York Engineers Club, New YorkDaniel Gallery, New York; to
Ferargil Gallery, New York; to
Willoughby-Toschi Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco; to
Milton Holland; to private collection, until 1981
Exhibition HistoryACA Galleries, New York, 1976
American Painters in the Age of Impressionism, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 4 December 1994 - 26 March 1995InscriptionsSigned, lower right: E. LawsonSignedSigned, lower right: E. Lawson
On view
Collections
Jean Louis Theodore Gentilz
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