ERNEST LAWSON
American, 1873–1939
Moonlight
Signed E. LAWSON
Oil on canvas
18 x 24 inches (45.7 x 61 cm)
Framed: 27 x 33 inches (68.5 x 84 cm)
This work likely depicts Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia.
Provenance
Sale, Samuel T. Freeman & Co., Philadelphia, May 13, 1953, lot 57
George K. Schubert, Philadelphia (acquired at the above sale)
By descent to his daughter, Portland, Maine (the current owner)
Exhibited
Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 1903, no. 234
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1904, no. 656
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1905, no. 452
$28,000