22 Facts About Adelaide Lawson

Adelaide Lawson was an American artist known for her modernist oil paintings of landscapes and figures.

Adelaide Lawson was said to possess an ability to build surface harmony through the use of flat, shadowless forms of generalized color and to use distortion and silhouetted patterning so as to give observers a sense of animation and often amusement.

In 1922 Adelaide Lawson contributed a painting to a group exhibition held at a high school art studio in Washington, DC Because the show had been organized by African Americans, was located in a segregated school, and consisted largely of African American participants, Adelaide Lawson's name has appeared in lists of African American artists.

Adelaide Lawson was not African American but supported the rights of African Americans and participated in the New Negro movement of her time.

Dos Passos, who was a close friend of Adelaide Lawson's, had taken classes with her at the Art Students' League and Field's Thurnscoe School of Modern Art in Ogunquit, Maine.

In 1924 and 1925 Adelaide Lawson showed twice more with Dos Passos at the Whitney Studio Club.

In 1925 Adelaide Lawson was given her first solo as the inaugural exhibition of Gallery 134 on West 4th Street.

Adelaide Lawson's work appeared frequently in group shows held by the Whitney Studio Club, Society of Independent Artists, Salons of America, and New York Society of Women Artists.

Adelaide Lawson was shown by the Touchstone Gallery, Powell Art Gallery, the Twelfth Street Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, J Wanamaker Gallery of Modern Decorative Art, and the Downtown and Midtown Galleries in New York.

Adelaide Lawson was given solo exhibitions in 1925 at Gallery 134 in New York and the Lakewood Gallery, Glen Cove, Long Island.

Adelaide Lawson belonged to the Society of Independent Artists, Salons of America, New York Society of Women Artists, Art Alliance of America, Hempstead Harbor Artists Association, and The Dialis.

Adelaide Lawson was born in New York on June 9,1889.

Adelaide Lawson died of the disease in November 1901 when Lawson was twelve years old.

Wendell Adelaide Lawson, who became a chemist and chemical importer, committed suicide at the age of 33 in 1922.

John Howard Adelaide Lawson was a playwright, screenwriter, and theatrical producer who joined the Communist Party during the 1930s and in 1950 was jailed for contempt of Congress after refusing to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

Adelaide Lawson's parents were affluent, her father through his success as a newspaperman and her mother as daughter of a prosperous German industrialist and, while both parents believed in social reform, her mother was particularly devoted to progressive causes, including women's rights and liberalized early childhood education.

Adelaide Lawson received part of her early education in at an experimental school, the Children's Playhouse, during a period in which her family was living in the New York suburb of New Rochelle.

Adelaide Lawson's father bought and sold real estate as an investment and the family moved frequently among properties that he owned.

Adelaide Lawson traveled in Germany, France, England, and Switzerland during 1908, in 1920 she visited France and Spain, and in 1921 she traveled in France, the British Isles, Switzerland, and Italy.

Adelaide Lawson married fellow artist Wood Gaylor on August 7,1926.

Adelaide Lawson and Gaylor had two sons, Wynn Adelaide Lawson Gaylor, born circa 1927, and Randall, born circa 1930.

Adelaide Lawson sometimes used her middle initial, but not her middle name.