A student at the Cowles Art School, Elizabeth Paxton was known for her kitchen still lifes, precisely crafted and with great harmony of color. She also did a number of interiors, usually women's... Read full biography
A student at the Cowles Art School, Elizabeth Paxton was known for her kitchen still lifes, precisely crafted and with great harmony of color. She also did a number of interiors, usually women's bedrooms without the figure, and landscapes and portraits. As a student she studied with Joseph De Camp,... Read full biography
A student at the Cowles Art School, Elizabeth Paxton was known for her kitchen still lifes, precisely crafted and with great harmony of color. She also did a number of interiors, usually women's bedrooms without the figure, and landscapes and portraits. As a student she studied with Joseph De Camp, Edmund Tarbell, and Phillip Hale as well as her husband. She married William McGregor Paxton, a highly successful painter, and is thought by critics to be as good a painter as he, but her career... Read full biography
A student at the Cowles Art School, Elizabeth Paxton was known for her kitchen still lifes, precisely crafted and with great harmony of color. She also did a number of interiors, usually women's bedrooms without the figure, and landscapes and portraits. As a student she studied with Joseph De Camp, Edmund Tarbell, and Phillip Hale as well as her husband. She married William McGregor Paxton, a highly successful painter, and is thought by critics to be as good a painter as he, but her career became secondary to his. She worked in her home studio in Newton, Massachusetts, and also traveled with her husband to spend several summers in Provincetown. In 1915, she won the silver medal at the Pan-Pacific Exposition. After her husband's death in... Read full biography
A student at the Cowles Art School, Elizabeth Paxton was known for her kitchen still lifes, precisely crafted and with great harmony of color. She also did a number of interiors, usually women's bedrooms without the figure, and landscapes and portraits. As a student she studied with Joseph De Camp, Edmund Tarbell, and Phillip Hale as well as her husband. She married William McGregor Paxton, a highly successful painter, and is thought by critics to be as good a painter as he, but her career became secondary to his. She worked in her home studio in Newton, Massachusetts, and also traveled with her husband to spend several summers in Provincetown. In 1915, she won the silver medal at the Pan-Pacific Exposition. After her husband's death in 1942, she moved back to Boston and had a studio in the Fenway Building. Most of her paintings were purchased immediately and are in private... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (18)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston, 1870-1940
2001
Hirshler, Erica E
227 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Vose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors Art and Collecting in America, Part Two
1997
Vose Galleries
35 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
The Boston Painters 1900-1930
1986
Gammell, R H Ives
204 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
Artists of the Rockport Art Association, 1980: Sixtieth Anniversary Edition
1980
Lippincott, Miriam, editor
0 pages
Edmund C Tarbell and the Boston School of Painting (1889-1980)
1980
Pierce, Patricia Jobe
285 pages (color)
Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present
1973
Collins, Jim L.
426 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
Panama-Pacific Exposition: Catalogue of the Post-Exposition Exhibit