Name: ERNEST LAWSON (1873-1939)
Brand: Winter, Spuyten Duyvil
Price: 9000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

ERNEST LAWSON (1873-1939)
Winter, Spuyten Duyvil
signed 'E. Lawson' (lower left)
oil on canvas
16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm.)
Painted circa 1908.

Chapellier Galleries, New York.
Elizabeth Hughes Gossett, Detroit, Michigan.
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, by bequest from the above, 1981.
Sotheby's, New York, 27 May 1993, lot 84, sold by the above.
Private collection, acquired from the above.
Sotheby's, New York, 24 May 2000, lot 63, sold by the above.
Private collection, New York.
Private collection, acquired from the above.
Joan Whalen Fine Art, New York.
Acquired by the late owner from the above, 2001.

We would like to thank Valerie Ann Leeds, PhD for her assistance with cataloging this lot.

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Located along the Hudson River in the Bronx, New York City, Spuyten Duyvil is most likely a loose derivation of a seventeenth century Dutch phrase "spuit den duyvil," which translates to "in spite of the Devil," a reference to the roughness of the nearby waters caused by double tides. This area, first explored in 1609 by Henry Hudson, developed into a small community by the second half of the nineteenth century with the completion of the Hudson River Railroad. In 1904, the first subway to connect Manhattan and the Bronx was completed, and the Third Avenue elevated line was expanded further northward, offering affordable transportation from Manhattan to the Bronx.

Ernest Lawson depicted Spuyten Duyvil on numerous occasions, with other examples held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut.