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Carl Lawless(1894-1964)Springtime in the Valley
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Jewel Bernier
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Carl Lawless (1894-1964)
signed 'CARL LAWLESS' (lower right)
oil on canvas
15 x 15 in. (38.1 x 38.1 cm)
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Carl Lawless was born in Adams, Illinois, and studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He worked abroad for a brief time but spent much of his career along the coast near Mystic, Connecticut, where he purchased a home in 1925.
The present work displays the compositional and tonal harmony for which Lawless's landscapes are so well known. The forms are both structured and organic, and the colors are vibrant, rich, and evocative. The clear delineation between the foregrounded trees, which stretch almost the whole height of the canvas, and the background landscape beyond the fence, which is painted in hazier pastel hues, creates an almost stage-like effect.
























