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Radford Farm, Virginia
Ernest Lawson, c 1936
A member of the famous early modernist group named "the Eight," Ernest Lawson painted colorful landscapes with thick impastos and broken brush strokes. He won acclaim for his views of the bridges of the Hudson, Harlem, and East rivers of New York City. "Color affects me like music affects some persons," he said, "emotionally." He developed what critics called a palette of "crushed jewels." Impressionist Theodore Robinson praised the "primitive rudeness" of views like this rare Virginia scene. |