Timeline

1873

Born in Halifax

1888

Began studying art at the Kansas City Art Institute

1890

Began at the Art Students League in New York

1893

Enrolled in the Académie Julian and shared a studio in Paris with Somerset Maugham

1894

Returned to the States and married Ella Holman, one of his art teachers in Kansas City

1916

The Lawson family lived near a castle in Segovia

1917

The family moved back to NY and Lawson was elected full member of the National Academy

1921

Lawson and his wife separated

1924

Revisited his birthplace, Halifax, as well as Newfoundland

1926

Moved to Kansas City for a teaching position at the Art Institute

1926

Youngest daughter died on a trip to Egypt

1930

Traveled to France to visit his daughter and two grandchildren

1930

First Lawson retrospective, including fifty-two works

1936

Moved to Coral Gables, Florida

1939

Died, his body was found on a Miami beach

The member of the Ash Can School most closely associated with impressionism