Ernest Lawson

Ernest Lawson (1873-1939), Canadian-born American landscape painter who effected a highly personal adaptation of the technique known as Impressionism. Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Lawson attended the Art Students' League in New York before studying under Impressionist painters John Henry Twachtman and Julian Alden Weir in Cos Cob, Connecticut, and under French painters and instructors Benjamin Constant and Jean Paul Laurensin Paris. His landscapes chiefly depict New York and its environs. Lawson was a member of the progressive American group of painters called The Eight.