Boys and Canal Boat–Spuyten Duyvil

Artist Ernest Lawson (American, b. Canada 1873–1939)

Date1911–1914

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsOverall: 25 1/8 x 30 1/8 in. (63.8 x 76.5 cm)
Frame: 35 x 39 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. (88.9 x 101 x 11.4 cm)

Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer

Object number2019.78

Collections

ClassificationsPainting

Object NamePainting

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

On view

Century

Twentieth

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Signedbottom left: E. LAWSON.

Inscribedverso frame left: 579.58 / 14; verso frame top right: 17386; verso top right stretcher: 17386

Exhibition HistoryInaugural Installation: 20th Century American Galleries (103), Palmer Museum of Art, June 1, 2024 – present; An American Place: Selections from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 29 – May 1, 2022; “Varied and Untried”: Early Twentieth-Century American Paintings from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 13 – May 5, 2013; An Intimate Eye: Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, Palmer Museum of Art, January 18 – May 15, 2005; Painters of a New Century: The Eight, Milwaukee Art Museum and traveling, September 6 – November 3, 1991.ProvenanceThe artist John Quinn John Quinn Estate, 1924–27 The John Quinn Collection [auction], American Art Association, Inc., New York, February 9–11, 1927, lot 242 Samuel Lustgarten, Chicago and Sherman Oaks, Calif. William H. Bender Jr., Bronxville, N.Y. Mrs. William H. Bender Estate, 1977 American 19th and 20th Century Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors and Sculpture, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, April 21, 1977, sale 3978, lot 113 Various private collections Acquired in 1988 from Babcock Galleries, New YorkPublished ReferencesAmerican 19th and 20th Century Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors and Sculpture, April 21, 1977 (New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., 1977) (ill., no. 113). Berry-Hill, Henry and Sidney, Ernest Lawson: American Impressionist, 1873–1939 (Leigh-on-Sea, England: F. Lewis, 1968), n.p. (ill., no. 43). “Chavannes Picture is Sold for $8,000,” New York Times, February 11, 1927. An Intimate Eye (2005), 11 (ill., color). John Quinn, 1870–1925 [sic]: Collection of Paintings, Water Colors, Drawings and Sculpture (Huntington, N.Y.: Pidgeon Hill Press, 1926), 24, 172 (ill.). McGrady, Patrick, “Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer,” American Art Review 17 (March–April 2005): 119 (ill., color). Milroy, Elizabeth, Painters of a New Century: The Eight and American Art (Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Museum, 1991), 179, 187 (ill., color, no. 78). Monro, Isabel Stevenson, and Kate M. Monro, Index to Reproductions of American Paintings: A guide to pictures occurring in more than eight hundred books (New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1948), 380. Paintings and Sculptures: The Renowned Collection of Modern and Ultra-Modern Art Formed by the Late John Quinn (New York: American Art Association, Inc., 1927), 98 (no. 242). Robinson, Joyce Henri et al. A Gift From the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013), 37, 38, 39, 191, 192 (ill. 38, 191). Robinson, Joyce Henri, "University Park, Pennsylvania | An American Place: Selections from the James & Barbara Palmer Collection," American Art Review, Vol. XXXIII no. 4 (2021): 113, 115 (ill.). Zilczer, Judith, “The Noble Buyer”: John Quinn, Patron of the Avant-Garde (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978), 169