Lawman, Jasper Holman (American, Western PA, 1825-1906), Wash Day, 1851, oil on canvas, 14.25 x 22.25 inches, signed along a wooden bridge lower center Jasper H. Lawman, framed in a gilded wood frame with an oval opening measuring 22 x 30 inches. Provenance: Brunk Auctions, 11/4/2006, lot 26 (titled Cabin in The Woods), Gilliland Fine Art, Ligonier Pa.; The Estate of Charles H. Booth Jr. ; Exhibited Westmoreland Museum of American Art "Scenic Views: Painters of The Scalp Level School Revisited, Nov. 2008-Feb.2009. A fine and rare early Western Pa. genre scene of a rural couple doing their daily chores. Jasper Lawman was born April 2, 1825 in Xenia, Ohio (not Cleveland). Jasper won a Proctor & Gamble award to study art in Paris in the late 1800's and won the gold medal at the Paris Exposition. Upon returning to the US he settled and made his art studio in the current location of Triangle Park at the junction of Monongahela & Allegheny Rivers.