Boys Bathing
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
The broken brushwork and blond tonalities that describe this idyllic sunlit scene are reminders of Ernest Lawson's early training with two American Impressionists, John H. Twachtman and J. Alden Weir, and his later contact with the French Impressionist Alfred Sisley. The theme of boys swimming was popular during the decades surrounding the turn of the century
Caption
Ernest Lawson (American, 1873–1939). Boys Bathing, ca. 1908–1910. Oil on canvas, frame: 33 × 37 3/4 × 2 in. (83.8 × 95.9 × 5.1 cm) 25 3/8 x 30 5/16 in. (64.5 x 77 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Hopkinson, 62.80. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Collection
Collection
Artist
Title
Boys Bathing
Date
ca. 1908–1910
Medium
Oil on canvas
Classification
Dimensions
frame: 33 × 37 3/4 × 2 in. (83.8 × 95.9 × 5.1 cm) 25 3/8 x 30 5/16 in. (64.5 x 77 cm)
Signatures
Signed lower left: "E. Lawson."
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Hopkinson
Accession Number
62.80
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