High Bridge, Harlem River
Artist:
Ernest Lawson
(American, 1873 - 1939)
Place made:United States
Date: 1912
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
40 x 50 in. (101.6 x 127 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Elizabeth and George Coates Fund
Object number: 73.129
Signed: Signed, lower right: E. Lawson
Inscribed: Signed, lower right: E. Lawson
Provenance: Presented 1912, New York Engineers Club, New York
Daniel Gallery, New York; to
Ferargil Gallery, New York; to
Willoughby-Toschi Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco; to
Milton Holland; to private collection, until 1981
Label Text
The 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)
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)
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