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Ernest Lawson (American, 1873-1939)
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Ernest Lawson
On the Hudson River, Palisade 1900
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Biography |
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1873 |
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Born in Halifax |
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1888 |
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Began studying art at the Kansas City Art Institute |
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1890 |
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Began at the Art Students League in New York |
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1893 |
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Enrolled in the Académie Julian and shared a studio in Paris with Somerset Maugham |
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1894 |
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Returned to the States and married Ella Holman, one of his art teachers in Kansas City |
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1916 |
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The Lawson family lived near a castle in Segovia |
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1917 |
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The family moved back to NY and Lawson was elected full member of the National Academy |
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1921 |
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Lawson and his wife separated |
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1924 |
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Revisited his birthplace, Halifax, as well as Newfoundland |
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1926 |
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Moved to Kansas City for a teaching position at the Art Institute |
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1926 |
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Youngest daughter died on a trip to Egypt |
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1930 |
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Traveled to France to visit his daughter and two grandchildren |
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1930 |
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First Lawson retrospective, including fifty-two works |
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1936 |
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Moved to Coral Gables, Florida |
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1939 |
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Died, his body was found on a Miami beach |
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The member of the Ash Can School most closely associated with impressionism |
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