Harlem River

Price realised USD 200,000

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Ernest Lawson (1873-1939)

Harlem River

Price realised USD 200,000

Ernest Lawson (1873-1939)
Harlem River
signed 'E. Lawson.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
39 ¾ in. x 49 ¾ in. (101 x 126.4 cm.)
Painted circa 1913-15.

M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York.
Private collection, Michigan, acquired from the above, 1978.
Sotheby's, New York, 18 May 2016, lot 36, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Ingo F. Walther, ed., Impressionism 1860-1920, London, 2006, p. 638, illustrated.

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; San Francisco, California, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts, American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection, June 4, 1989-May 27, 1990, pp. 184-85, no. 69, illustrated.
Lugano Castagnola, Switzerland, Thyssen-Bornemisza Foundation, Masterworks of American Impressionism, July-October 1990, pp. 140-41, no. 59, illustrated.
Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, Musée de Quebec; New York, America's Society Art Gallery; Memphis, Tennessee, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, The Frick Art Museum; Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Visions of Light and Air: Canadian Impressionism, 1885-1920, June 14, 1995-December 8, 1996, n.p., no. 12, illustrated.
Hokkaido, Japan, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art; Shiga, Japan, The Museum of Modern Art; Akita, Japan, The Akita Museum of Modern Art; Tokuyama, Japan, Tokuyama City Museum of Art History; Sogo, Japan, Sogo Museum of Art, From the Hudson River School to Impressionism: American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection, July 5, 1997-February 1, 1998, no. 58, illustrated.
Memphis, Tennessee, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Celebrate America: 19th Century Paintings from the Manoogian Collection, February 7-April 18, 1999, pp. 74-75, no. 28, illustrated.
Vero Beach, Florida, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Masters of Light: Selections of American Impressionism from the Manoogian Collection, January 30-April 23, 2006, pp. 94-97, 128, no. 25, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

According to Glen Umberger of the New York Landmarks Conservancy, the present work depicts the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum at left and Webb's Academy and Home for Shipbuilders at right. Both buildings would have been visible from the artist's vantage point looking across the Harlem River to the Bronx from Upper Manhattan.

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