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December 28, 2023

Уильям Хёрд Лоуренс (William Hurd Lawrence) | 1903-1907 | Харперз нью мансли магэзин (Harper’s New Monthly Magazine)

The Fair Lavinia by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. Volume 114, January 1907 to June 1907


Уильям Хёрд (Херд) Лоуренс (анг. William Hurd Lawrence; 1866-1938) – американский художник: акварелист, пейзажный и жанровый живописец, журнальный иллюстратор; ученик Уильяма Тэйлора (William Ladd Taylor; 1854-1926) и Фредерика Портера Винтона (Frederic Porter Vinton; 1846-1911).


A Filial Pretence by Will N. Harben. Volume 107, June to November 1903

The Perfidy of Mr. Ebless Frazee by Alice MacGowan. Volume 107, June to November 1903

The Immediate Jewel by Margaret Deland. Volume 108, December 1903 to May 1904

The Sea-Child by Ethel Watts Mumford. Volume 108, December 1903 to May 1904

The Obsession of Ann Gibbs by Margaret Potter. Volume 113, July to December 1906



William Hurd Lawrence (1866-1938) – was an American artist: watercolorist, landscape and genre painter, magazine illustrator; he was a student of William Ladd Taylor (1854-1926) and Frederic Porter Vinton (1846-1911). At the beginning of the last century, William Hurd Lawrence was one of the significant artists who illustrated Harpers. In 1917, during a tour of South America, the sun beat him into partial paralysis. His right hand hung disabled. Despite the terrible shock, the artist had learned to paint over again with his left hand. Six months after his misfortune, William Hurd Lawrence had attained sufficient skill to have occasional works again accepted by Harper's. William Hurd Lawrence, it seems to me, was able to extremely expressively convey the psychological state of the characters, using flexible and varied plastic forms to coordinate their internal characteristics. However, this is just one of the features, albeit an important one, of the style of the great artist, who for a long time illustrated Harper’s New Monthly Magazine.
Иллюстрации даны по изданиям, находящимся в оцифрованном виде на сайте "Архив Интернета" (archive.org)