  About the Artwork
  
  
  Here Lawson chose to paint a landscape, probably an area around Cornish, New Hampshire, where his family spent the summers of 1919 and 1920. But this work as not always a winter scene. In 1920 it was exhibited at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh as “Trees in Blossom.” Sometime between that show and the time Detroit acquired it in 1923, Lawson painted a heavy blanket of snow over the blossoms and spring foliage.
  
  
  Title
  Winter
  
  
  Artwork Date
  ca. 1920
  
  Artist
  Ernest Lawson
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  1873-1939
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
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  Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation.
  
  
  
  American
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Oil on canvas
  
  
  Dimensions
  Unframed: 40 × 50 1/4 inches (101.6 × 127.6 cm)
  Framed: 49 5/8 × 59 3/4 × 3 inches (126 × 151.8 × 7.6 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Paintings
  
  
  Department
  American Art before 1950
  
  
  Credit
  Gift of Richard H. Webber
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  23.19
  
  
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