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Ernest Lawson

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.