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1877 Providence, Rhode Island - 1971 Boston, Massachusetts. Known for: Kitchen still-life, interiors and landscape painting.
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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Keywords (34)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art Media
- •Oil Paint
Art Style
- •Boston School of Painting
- •Classical Realist
- •Impressionism Before 1940
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
- •Interior Scenes
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Cape Cod, Massachusetts
- •Provincetown, Massachusetts
- •Rockport, Massachusetts
Art Association
- •North Shore Art Association, Gloucester-
- •Rockport Art Association-
Art Teacher
- •Edmund Tarbell
- •Joseph DeCamp
- •Philip Lesley Hale
- •William Paxton
Art School
- •Cowles Art School, Boston, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Still Life Specialty
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Vose Galleries, Boston
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •AskART Panama Pacific Expo
- •Panama Pacific Exhibition of 1915
Exhibition of Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, New York
- •North Shore Art Association, Gloucester
- •Rockport Art Association
Exhibition of Museum
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts