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1873 - 1939 • American • Painter • Impressionist
"I would like to communicate the artist's point of view which is at its best, the power to see beautifully, which is almost all that is worth bothering about." - Ernest Lawson
Lawson made an unusual, if not incongruous, combination: IMPRESSIONIST in style and technique, unlike their hedonistic subjects, his paintings related to the working classes, the same people whose lives were so vigorously explored by the so-called Apostles of Ugliness, artists of the ASHCAN SCHOOL. Lawson LE CORBUSIER (CHARLES-EDO UARD JEANN ERET) 383 studied with the AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISTS WEIR and TWACHTMAN even before he went to Paris in 1893. In Paris, Lawson worked alongside Somerset Maugham, who named and modeled the artist in his novel Of Human Bondage (1915) after his studio mate. In Lawson's oeuvre, sometimes what seems to be a rural landscape is actually a city scene in which industrial buildings hover benignly at a distance. Lawson especially liked to paint New York's rivers and bridges (e.g., Winter Landscape: Washington Bridge, 1905-15), and while often his PALETTE was soft and light, sometimes his brushstroke was thick and his colors bright: a pink factory with a blue roof, a tugboat in green, red, orange, and blue. Lawson exhibited as one of The EIGHT. He seldom spoke about his work, but in his later years he wrote down what he called "The Credo," which is quoted from above.
