ERNEST LAWSON | OLD MILL AT DALLAS, MO.

ERNEST LAWSON
1873 - 1939
OLD MILL AT DALLAS, MO.

signed E. LAWSON (lower right)
oil on board
25 ¼ by 30 inches
(64.1 by 76.2 cm)
Painted circa 1925-26.

Condition Report:
The board has likely been mounted to a piece of Masonite and the work is affixed within a strip frame. There appears to be frame abrasion at edges and there is surface cracking throughout. Under UV: some pigments fluoresce but they appear to be the artist's original work.

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Provenance:
The artist

Mr. Murat Boyle, Sr., 1926 (acquired from the above)

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York

Private collection, 1977 (acquired from the above)

By descent to the present owner