Carl Lawless (1894-1964)

Carl Lawless (1894-1964)

Carl E. Lawless was born in Illinois in 1894 and studied locally at the Art Institute of Chicago before enrolling at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he was awarded the Cresson Traveling Scholarship. He furthered his education abroad when the First World War came to a close and studied privately with Daniel Garber in Pennsylvania upon his return to America before discovering Mystic, Connecticut, while visiting a couple he had befriended in Europe. Lawless was immediately taken with the charming coastal town. He became an integral member of the artists’ colony and moved there permanently in 1925. In addition to the Mystic Art Association, he was a member of the New Haven Paint and Clay Club and the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, and exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy, the National Academy of Design, which awarded him prizes in 1923 and 1927, and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC.

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