Adelaide Lawson Gaylor - Artist Info

About Adelaide Lawson Gaylor

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Adelaide Jaffrey Lawson
  • Biography

    From Wikipedia (March 2026)

    Adelaide Lawson
    Born: June 9, 1889, New York City
    Died: October 28, 1986 (aged 97), Huntington, Long Island, New York

    Adelaide Lawson (June 9, 1889 – October 28, 1986) was an American artist known for her modernist oil paintings of landscapes and figures. She 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.Art training:

    During the second decade of the twentieth century, Lawson studied at the Art Students League of New York under Kenneth Hayes Miller.? Along with other stud...

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