Landscape with Gnarled Trees

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FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG

Here the Canadian-born Lawson presents a rural scene of Upstate New York, his adopted home. The white clapboard cottage is nestled among rocky hills and writhing, curvilinear trees, bare of leaves, suggesting winter or perhaps early spring. A pale green field stretches into the distance; purple haze suffuses the distant mountains. Lawson's rugged application of pigment, rhythmic forms, and vivid colors were inspired partly by the works of the French painters Alfred Sisley and Paul Cézanne.

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