Shadows, Spuyten Duyvil Hill
ca. 1910 · Oil on canvas
Dimensions : 30 x 40in. (76.2 x 101.6cm)Framed: 37 1/8 x 47 x 2 1/2 in. (94.3 x 119.4 x 6.4 cm)
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Credit Gift of Diana and Arthur Altschul, 1992
Even after he moved downtown from Washington Heights, Lawson continued to portray Manhattan’s upper reaches. In this canvas, he depicted the vicinity of Spuyten Duyvil Creek, a tidal strait that linked the Harlem and Hudson Rivers. (The creek was supplanted by a deeper ship canal in 1895 and filled in.) The area still conjured visions of New York’s colonial past, especially the pioneering explorations of Henry Hudson. Lawson revealed modern encroachments on a relatively rural part of the city by including a puffing steamboat, factory buildings, and clusters of small houses.
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About this artwork
Shadows, Spuyten Duyvil Hill (ca. 1910) by Ernest Lawson, oil on canvas, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.
About Ernest Lawson
Ernest Lawson (March 22, 1873 – December 18, 1939) was a Canadian-American painter and a member of The Eight, a group of artists who formed a loose association in 1908 to protest the narrowness of taste and restrictive exhibition policies of the conservative, powerful National Academy of Design.
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