![]() Due to his alcoholism and other reasons unknown, his family and supporters deserted him. He moved to Spain in 1916 with his wife and two children where he took up drinking and through some unfortunate events became destitute. Over the years, Lawson collected numerous medals and awards, including gold medals at the Pennsylvania Academy (1907) and the Panama Pacific Exposition (1915). In 1905, he joined The Eight, a group of painters who opposed of the National Academy of Design’s strict rules on painting, after having a painting rejected for exhibition. He textured his paintings using thick impasto, creating peaks of paint and defined his subjects with strong outlines and bold colors. Lawson began creating his natural, urban landscapes, focusing on the importance of light during varying seasons and the effects it had at different times of the day. He returned to New York in 1898, settling in Upper Manhattan. In 1894, the Salon accepted his paintings for exhibition expanding his popularity and fortune. ![]() ![]() In 1893, he relocated to Paris where he attended the Académie Julian for the next three years. ![]() He remained there for two years, taking summer courses at Cos Cob, Connecticut where he studied under J. Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1873, Lawson began his art education by attending the Art Students League in New York in 1891. Ernest Lawson was a Canadian-American Impressionist landscape artist specializing in urban scenes using natural lighting. ![]()
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