Early Spring
1918 · oil paint
Unframed: 52 x 60.5 cm (20 1/2 x 23 13/16 in.)
Cleveland Museum of Art
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Ernest Lawson
1873–1939
WA-00048443
PaintingAshcan School
Representation
None documented
4
Institutional Exhibitions
7
Works in Collection
44
Assets Indexed
7
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
90%
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Authority Records (1)
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Three Centuries of American Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1938
No image
Paintings for Paris
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1937
No image
American Painting and Sculpture, 1862�1932
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1932–1933
No image
Paintings by 19 Living Americans
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1929–1930
Field Verification (6 fields)
5 cross-verified · 1 single-source
- Birth yearArtsy + Duplicate Merge· 85%✓
- Is PublishedManual· 100%✓
- BiographyDuplicate Merge· 85%✓
- Primary mediumDuplicate Merge· 85%✓
- Death yearDuplicate Merge· 85%✓
- NationalityArtsy· 85%
Source Registry (1)
- SmithsonianTier 1 · Institutional95%
About
Why this artist matters now
Ernest Lawson 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.
Source: Smithsonian Institution · Trust score: 95% · Updated 13d ago
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Ashcan School
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Artworks (7)
Artwork sources (6)
7 published of 34 catalogued · 34 with image
- The Met4 published4 img
- Nga2 published2 img
- Cleveland Museum of Art1 published1 img
- + 3 more sources · 27 catalogued, not yet published
Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 7)
36 entries · 2 sources
- 1918 · Cleveland · 6 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_numberWikidata·titleWikidata·mediumWikidata·year_createdWikidata·primary_image_urlWikidata·artwork_type
- 1914 · Met · 5 provWikidata·titleWikidata·mediumWikidata·year_createdWikidata·primary_image_urlWikidata·artwork_type
- 1910 · Met · 5 provWikidata·titleWikidata·mediumWikidata·year_createdWikidata·primary_image_urlWikidata·artwork_type
- 1916 · Nga · 5 provWikidata·titleWikidata·mediumWikidata·year_createdWikidata·primary_image_urlWikidata·artwork_type
- 1913 · Met · 5 provWikidata·titleWikidata·mediumWikidata·year_createdWikidata·primary_image_urlWikidata·artwork_type
- 1910 · Met · 5 provWikidata·titleWikidata·mediumWikidata·year_createdWikidata·primary_image_urlWikidata·artwork_type
- 1915 · Nga · 5 provWikidata·titleWikidata·mediumWikidata·year_createdWikidata·primary_image_urlWikidata·artwork_type
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4Institutional
Representation & Collections
In collection
Smithsonian American Art Museum
In collection
Art Institute of Chicago
In collection
National Gallery of Art
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