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Little Church Around the Corner
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March 16, 04:22 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Ernest Lawson
1873 - 1939
Little Church Around the Corner
signed E. Lawson (lower left)
oil on canvas
40 by 50 in.
102 by 127 cm.
Ferargil Galleries, New York (by 1934)
I.B.M. Corporation, Amonk, New York (by 1968)
Hirschl & Adler, New York
ACA Galleries, New York
"Art in America," The London Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art, vol. 7, New York, 1934, no. 338
Henry & Sidney Berry-Hill, Ernest Lawson: American Impressionist, 1873-1939, Leigh-on-Sea, England, 1968, no. 104, n.p., illustrated
William H. Gerdts, Impressionist New York, New York, 1994, p. 110
Exh. Cat., New York, Gerald Peters Gallery, Ernest Lawson, 2000, p. 113
Little Church Around the Corner depicts the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration on East 29th Street in New York City. In 1934, this painting won Ernest Lawson the Obrig Prize at the National Academy of Design's 109th annual exhibition.