Robert Pearson Lawrence (NC, 1883-1970), Rain Clouds

Oil on Newton canvas board, signed at lower left, inscribed to the verso, presented in a carved giltwood frame.

Board 12 x 16 in.; Frame dimensions 19 x 23 in.

From the Collection of Mr. Jonathan P. Alcott, Raleigh, North Carolina

Nowell Guffey, Foothills Fine Art, Tryon, North Carolina.

Robert Pearson Lawrence was born in Setauket, New York. He studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, the Art Students League in New York City, and the Woodstock colony in the Catskills. Lawrence became a magazine illustrator, though his oil paintings were exhibited at 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.

In the 1950s Lawrence settled in Tryon, North Carolina, and joined the artist colony there,where he pursued landscape painting for more than two decades. He became well-known for his oils of the area's scenery. A one-man exhibition of his work was held in Tryon in 1961. Several of his paintings can be found in Tryon institutions, and he was an early member of the artists' guild in nearby Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Very good condition.