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An example of work by Robert Pearson Lawrence
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Robert Pearson Lawrence was born April 26, 1883 in Setauket, New York on the north shore of Long Island, son of Frederic Jefferson Lawrence and Esther Ann Pearson. He attended private schools and served in the Army Infantry for 15 months. His art education was at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, at the Art Students League in New York City, and in the Woodstock colony in the Catskills. Among his instructors were artists Birge Harrison, John F. Carlson, Herman Dudley Murphy, Howard Pyle, and Henry Reuterdahl.
Lawrence was an illustrator for magazines, including the old "Life Magazine" and "Women's Home Companion". In 1914 he executed the frontispiece illustration for S.R. Crockett's novel "Sandy", which is signed "R. Pearson Lawrence."
Exhibiting fine art as Robert Lawrence, his oil paintings were included in shows of the Hudson Valley Art Association, Westchester Arts & Crafts, and the Salmagundi Club. He joined the Salmagundi in New York City as an artist member in 1934. During World War II he volunteered as a USO artist and executed portraits of wounded American soldiers at the hospital set up in the Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia.
In the 1950s Lawrence settled in Tryon, North Carolina, a mountain colony known for attracting many writers and visual artists. There he pursued landscape painting for more than two decades, and became well-known for his oils of the area's scenery. A one-man show was held in Tryon in 1961. Several of his paintings are today in Tryon institutions. He was also one of the early members of the artists' guild in nearby Spartanburg, South Carolina.
A date of death, and what happened to this artist, have not yet been discovered.
Written and submitted February 2004 by Michael J. McCue, Asheville NC, author of "Tryon Artists 1892-1942"
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