Ernest Lawson

Ernest Lawson
Portrait by William Glackens, 1910
Born	Ernest Lawson (1873-03-22)March 22, 1873 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Died	December 18, 1939(1939-12-18) (aged 66) Miami, Florida, US
Nationality	Canadian, American
Education	Kansas City Art Institute (1888); Art Students League, New York (1891), where he was taught by John Twachtman and J. Alden Weir, whose summer school he attended at Cos Cob, Connecticut; Académie Julian, Paris (1893) with Jean-Paul Laurens
Known for	painter
Spouse	Ella Holman
Awards	Universal Exposition in St. Louis in 1904 (silver medal); Corcoran Art Prize, Washington, DC (1916)
Elected	Canadian Art Club (1912); National Academy of Design (full member, (1917); National Institute of Arts and Letters

Ernest Lawson (March 22, 1873 – December 18, 1939)^[1] 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.