Boathouse, Winter, Harlem River

c. 1916

Ernest Lawson

Associated Names
Ernest Lawson

Painter, American, born Canada, 1873 - 1939

This painting shows a snowy landscape with boats on a pale green river. Closest to us, there are thin, leafless trees in a snow-covered field, and on the other bank beyond the river are more thin trees with pale, hazy buildings visible in the distance. In the center, a gray-and-white house appears to sit on the edge of the water, one of the boats resting on the land next to it. A curving fence separates the white field, extending from the house towards the lower right corner of the painting. There are some more indistinct objects on the land in shades of red and black. The sky above the scene is a pale blue-gray that is almost the same color as the snowy ground. The brushstrokes in the painting are small dots and dashes of different colors that all overlap, giving the scene a slightly blurred impression.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Charles Daniels, New York); purchased 1916 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1916

  • Sixth Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Contemporary American Artists, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 17 December 1916 - 21 January 1917, no. 88.

1934

  • Art League. Washington, 26 May - August 1934.

1967

  • Ernest Lawson, 1873-1939, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Confederation Art Gallery and Museum, Charlottetown, P.E.I.; Nova Scotia College of Art, Halifax; Saskatoon; Sarnia; Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston; Sir George William's College, Montreal; London Public Library, Ontario,1967, no. 36.

1976

  • Corcoran [The American Genius], Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1976, no checklist.

1980

  • Guy Pene du Bois: Artist About Town, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha; Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, 1980-1981, no. 100.

1985

  • Henri's Circle, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 20 April-16 June 1985, unnumbered checklist.

1998

  • The Forty-Fifth Biennial: The Corcoran Collects, 1907–1998, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 17 July - 29 September 1998, unnumbered catalogue.

2003

  • The Impressionist Tradition in America, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 2004, unpublished checklist.

2005

  • Encouraging American Genius: Master Paintings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte; John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, 2005-2007, checklist no. 74 (shown only in Washington).

2013

  • American Journeys: Visions of Place, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 September 2013-28 September 2014, unpublished checklist.

Bibliography

2011

  • Larkin, Susan G. "Ernest Lawson, Boathouse, Winter, Harlem River." In Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Edited by Sarah Cash. Washington, 2011: 214-215, 279, repro.

Inscriptions

lower right: E. Lawson

Wikidata ID

Q46633509

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