In December 1916, Lawson won an art prize of $1500 that helped him pay for a stay in Segovia, Spain, with his family. They lived in a house with a view of the Alcázar and the town's cathedral, visible in this painting. Lawson ground his own pigments for paints due to wartime shortages, producing powerful and bright colors.
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