Tag: Manhattan Schist

  • Harlem Flats (Back Lot Laundry)

    Harlem Flats (Back Lot Laundry)

    In 2011 The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens (outside LA) acquired the “Harlem Flats (Back Lot Laundry),” an important early painting made in 1907 by Ernest Lawson, one of a group of Ashcan school artists called The Eight. “Harlem Flats” was purchased for The Huntington by Kelvin Davis. Notice that the boys are…