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| William McGregor Paxton American, 1886 - 1978 "Elsa in the Pink Dress" Oil on Canvas measures 45" x 35" - Signed lower right Housed in the original Wilfred Thulin hand Carved partial gilt frame, signed and dated 1932 Exhibited Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and the Museum of Fine Art, Boston |
A very desirable example by William McGregor Paxton, housed in an equally important Wilfred Thulin dated (1932) hand carved Arts
& Crafts frame. The work was exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and the Museum of Fine Art, Boston (Exhibition
Stamps and Labels on Verso).
Elsa (Tashko) was one of Paxton's favored sitters, a muse with a seductive and wonderfully enigmatic expression that Paxton
captured in a number of his finest paintings. "Elsa in the Pink Dress" exudes wonderful presence on the wall and this life-size
depiction of the sitter, is truly exemplary of Paxton's utmost talents.
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 veranda 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 full member of the National Academy of Design.
Paxton studied in Boston with Dennis Miller Bunker at the Cowles School, and then in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts with Jean
Leon Gerome, the teacher of Bunker, and a life-long influence on Paxton's skill with figures. In 1893, Paxton returned to Boston
from Paris and studied at the Cowles School with Joseph De Camp, a new faculty member who had much influence on Paxton in the
execution of what became his signature interiors: Vermeer-like scenes of well-to-do persons in elegant, quiet settings.
In 1904, a fire in the Harcourt Building in Boston that housed Paxton's studio destroyed about 100 of his paintings as well as many
canvases of Joseph De Camp.
William Paxton died in Boston in 1941.
Sources include: William Gerdts, American Impressionism and Michael David Zellman's, 300 Years of American Art
Provenance: Directly from the Estate of the Artist. The work is also known as "Elsa with the Green Jewel."
& Crafts frame. The work was exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and the Museum of Fine Art, Boston (Exhibition
Stamps and Labels on Verso).
Elsa (Tashko) was one of Paxton's favored sitters, a muse with a seductive and wonderfully enigmatic expression that Paxton
captured in a number of his finest paintings. "Elsa in the Pink Dress" exudes wonderful presence on the wall and this life-size
depiction of the sitter, is truly exemplary of Paxton's utmost talents.
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 veranda 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 full member of the National Academy of Design.
Paxton studied in Boston with Dennis Miller Bunker at the Cowles School, and then in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts with Jean
Leon Gerome, the teacher of Bunker, and a life-long influence on Paxton's skill with figures. In 1893, Paxton returned to Boston
from Paris and studied at the Cowles School with Joseph De Camp, a new faculty member who had much influence on Paxton in the
execution of what became his signature interiors: Vermeer-like scenes of well-to-do persons in elegant, quiet settings.
In 1904, a fire in the Harcourt Building in Boston that housed Paxton's studio destroyed about 100 of his paintings as well as many
canvases of Joseph De Camp.
William Paxton died in Boston in 1941.
Sources include: William Gerdts, American Impressionism and Michael David Zellman's, 300 Years of American Art
Provenance: Directly from the Estate of the Artist. The work is also known as "Elsa with the Green Jewel."
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