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1868 Fairfield, Michigan - 1954 Pasadena, California. Known for: Figure-nude, portrait and landscape painting, teaching.
Lawton Silas Parker. Most artists go a lifetime without the body of their work being lost or destroyed. To this prodigious and highly celebrated talent it happened twice. Lawton Silas Parker was born... Read full biography
Lawton Silas Parker. Most artists go a lifetime without the body of their work being lost or destroyed. To this prodigious and highly celebrated talent it happened twice. Lawton Silas Parker was born in Fairfield, Michigan in 1868. His art training began at the Art Institute of Chicago, but by the... Read full biography
Lawton Silas Parker. Most artists go a lifetime without the body of their work being lost or destroyed. To this prodigious and highly celebrated talent it happened twice. Lawton Silas Parker was born in Fairfield, Michigan in 1868. His art training began at the Art Institute of Chicago, but by the age of twenty he had moved on to Paris and the Academie Julian in October of 1888. Returning to the States in December of 1891, he accepted a position at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts, now part of... Read full biography
Lawton Silas Parker. Most artists go a lifetime without the body of their work being lost or destroyed. To this prodigious and highly celebrated talent it happened twice. Lawton Silas Parker was born in Fairfield, Michigan in 1868. His art training began at the Art Institute of Chicago, but by the age of twenty he had moved on to Paris and the Academie Julian in October of 1888. Returning to the States in December of 1891, he accepted a position at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts, now part of Washington University. 1893 would find him in New York at the Metropolitan Museum art school, and later, entering the Art Students League. Parker’s winning of 1896’s John Armstrong Chandler multi-year European scholarship landed him back in Paris... Read full biography
Lawton Silas Parker. Most artists go a lifetime without the body of their work being lost or destroyed. To this prodigious and highly celebrated talent it happened twice. Lawton Silas Parker was born in Fairfield, Michigan in 1868. His art training began at the Art Institute of Chicago, but by the age of twenty he had moved on to Paris and the Academie Julian in October of 1888. Returning to the States in December of 1891, he accepted a position at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts, now part of Washington University. 1893 would find him in New York at the Metropolitan Museum art school, and later, entering the Art Students League. Parker’s winning of 1896’s John Armstrong Chandler multi-year European scholarship landed him back in Paris and further study in mural painting with Besnard and finally in 1897, to the Ecole des Beaux Arts where he studied under Jean Le... Read full biography