Born in Baltimore and raised in Newton, Massachusetts, William Paxton became a prominent late 19th, early 20th-century figure painter, especially noted for female subjects, and a key artist in the... Read full biography
Born in Baltimore and raised in Newton, Massachusetts, William Paxton became a prominent late 19th, early 20th-century figure painter, especially noted for female subjects, and a key artist in the establishment of American Impressionism. Paxton also painted outdoor views of upper class life such as... Read full biography
Born in Baltimore and raised in Newton, Massachusetts, William Paxton became a prominent late 19th, early 20th-century figure painter, especially noted for female subjects, and a key artist in the establishment of American Impressionism. Paxton also painted outdoor views of upper class life such as croquet games and hotel verandah scenes. In Philadelphia where he lived briefly, he received so many commissions for portrait paintings that he was referred to as the "court painter of Philadelphia."... Read full biography
Born in Baltimore and raised in Newton, Massachusetts, William Paxton became a prominent late 19th, early 20th-century figure painter, especially noted for female subjects, and a key artist in the establishment of American Impressionism. Paxton also painted outdoor views of upper class life such as croquet games and hotel verandah scenes. In Philadelphia where he lived briefly, he received so many commissions for portrait paintings that he was referred to as the "court painter of Philadelphia." Portrait subjects included Presidents Calvin Coolidge and Grover Cleveland. In addition to his canvas painting, Paxton was a muralist whose work was at the Army and Navy Club of New York City and St. Botolph's Club of Boston. He was also a... Read full biography
Born in Baltimore and raised in Newton, Massachusetts, William Paxton became a prominent late 19th, early 20th-century figure painter, especially noted for female subjects, and a key artist in the establishment of American Impressionism. Paxton also painted outdoor views of upper class life such as croquet games and hotel verandah scenes. In Philadelphia where he lived briefly, he received so many commissions for portrait paintings that he was referred to as the "court painter of Philadelphia." Portrait subjects included Presidents Calvin Coolidge and Grover Cleveland. In addition to his canvas painting, Paxton was a muralist whose work was at the Army and Navy Club of New York City and St. Botolph's Club of Boston. He was also a lithographer, and etcher, and his studios were in Boston, East Gloucester, and Provincetown. In 1928, he became a... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (83)
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An Impressionist Sensibility: The Halff Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2006
Harvey, Eleanor Jones
136 pages (color)
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
Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925
2004
Dearinger, David B.
672 pages (color)
Vose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors Circles of Influence, A Timeline
2004
Vose, Marcia (editor)
38 pages (color)
American Beauty: Paintings from Detroit Institute of Arts, 1770-1920 (Exhibition catalog)
2002
Beal, Graham
128 pages (color)
American Paintings from the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery: An Institutional History in Pictures (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Siedell, Daniel A.
9 pages (color)
American Paintings: 1860-1940
2000
Greer, Gina; Andrea Smith
0 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Mary Bradish Titcomb and Her Contemporaries at the Fenway Studios (Exhibition catalog)
1998
Vose Galleries
54 pages (color)
Vose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors Art and Collecting in America, Part Two
1997
Vose Galleries
35 pages (color)
At Beck and Call: Domestic Servants In 19th Century Painting
1996
O'Leary, Elizabeth L
305 pages (color)
Gracious Plenty American Still-Life Art from Southern Collections
1996
Pennington, Estill Curtis
127 pages
American Art Colonies 1850-1930 A Guide to Original Art Colonies and Their Artists
1996
Shipp, Steve
159 pages
A Noble Tradition American Painting from the National Arts Club
1995
Lowrey, Carol
1,995 pages
Redefining Genre French and American Painting 1850-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1995
Weisberg, Gabriel P
111 pages (color)
Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art
1994
Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts
372 pages (color)
Women of Fashion French and American Images of Leisure 1880-1920 (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Weisberg, Gabriel P
188 pages (color)
Revisiting the White City American Art at the 1893 World's Fair (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Carr, Carolyn K
408 pages (color)
Images of America The Painter's Eye, 1833-1925 (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Baekland, Frederick
160 pages (color)
The Lure of Paris: Nineteenth-Century American Painters and Their French Teachers
1991
Weinberg, H Barbara
295 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 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 American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1989
National Gallery of Art
203 pages (color)
Sounding the Depths 150 Years of American Seascape
1989
Nelson, Harold B
111 pages (color)
Drawn from Tradition: American Drawings and Watercolors: From the Collection of Susan and Herbert Adler, Neuberger Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Weber, Bruce
185 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
1988
Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy
376 pages (color)
American Art Posters of the 1890s in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1987
Kiehl, David W
199 pages (color)
An American Gallery (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Richard York Gallery
88 pages (color)
The Boston Painters 1900-1930
1986
Gammell, R H Ives
204 pages (color)
Masterpiece Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1986
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
148 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Masterpieces of American Painting The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1986
Salinger, Margaretta
200 pages (color)
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
The Fine Line Drawing with Silver in America (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Weber, Bruce
103 pages
25th Anniversary Exhibition Selected American Paintings (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Adams, Henry
120 pages
American Impressionism (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Gerdts, William H
336 pages (color)
The American Pupils of Jean-Leon Gerome
1984
Weinberg, H Barbara
113 pages
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
Directions in American Painting 1875-1925 (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Rodriguez Roque, Oswaldo
112 pages (color)
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
Solitude Inner Visions in American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Terra Museum of American Art
41 pages (color)
Of Time and Place American Figurative Art from the Corcoran Gallery (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Nygren, Edward/Julie R Myers
196 pages (color)
American Impressionism: The Henry Art Gallery (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Gerdts, William H
179 pages (color)
100 Masterpieces of Painting Indianapolis Museum of Art
1980
Janson, Anthony/A Ian Fraser
295 pages (color)
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)
The Boston Tradition: American Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1980
Troyen, Carol
204 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works
1979
Brooklyn Museum
133 pages (color)
William McGregor Paxton 1869-1941 (Exhibition catalog)