William McGregor Paxton papers

Dewing, M. O. (Maria Oakey), 1855-1927

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Hale, Philip Leslie, 1865-1931

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American painter and critic. From the description of Letter, n.d. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79182370 Philip Leslie Hale (1865-1931) was a painter, teacher, critic, and writer from Boston, Mass. Hale received early training under his sister Ellen Day Hale, at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and Academy Julian in Paris, and he studied privately with William M. Chase, J.A. Weir, and Kenyon...

Burdick, Horace Robbins, 1844-1942

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Horace R. Burdick was a portrait painter, teacher, conservator, and writer. Born in East Killingly, Ct., he studied at the Lowell Institute and then the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School. He was a pupil of artists George Hollingsworth, William Rimmer, and E.O. Grundman. Burdick lived in Providence, R.I. for a period of time and worked at a photographic establishment where he first began to use crayon. He moved to Boston in 1864 and set up a studio. Soon after, he became a member of the Boston Ar...

Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936

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Born in New York City in 1848, Edwin Howland Blashfield became an artist who specialized in mural painting and advocated for public art. In 1867 Blashfield traveled to Paris where he studied with the figure painter Léon Bonnât. Blashfield's works were exhibited at the Paris Salon during 1875-1879, 1888-1889, and 1892-1893. On July 5, 1881, Blashfield married in Paris Evangeline Wilbour, and soon after took up permanent residence in New York City. He and his wife collaborated on many illustrate...

Wales, George Canning, 1868-1940

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George C. Wales (1868-1940) was an MIT graduate in naval architecture and a noted marine artist. He worked at the firm of Peabody & Stearns in Boston, from 1888 to 1891. He was in partnership from 1891 to 1906 at Wales & Holt, Boston, Massachusetts and then maintained a private design business until 1924. He began to study art by 1917 and had his first exhibition in 1921. He published "Etchings and Lithographs of American Ships" in 1927 and also produced vessel drawings used as illustrat...

Eakins, Susan Macdowell

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Painter; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Lived 1851-1938. Full name Susan Hannah Macdowell Eakins. Married to painter, photographer Thomas Eakins. From the description of Susan Eakins letter, 1929 July 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122545833 ...

Paxton, Elizabeth Okie.

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Cox, Kenyon, 1856-1919

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Mural painter, illustrator, teacher, and writer; New York, N.Y. From the description of Kenyon Cox letters, 1893-1919. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122456081 American artist, author. From the description of Kenyon Cox papers, circa 1860-1922. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 505719883 Kenyon Cox was an American artist, born in Ohio, who studied in Cincinnati, Philadelphia and Paris, 1877-1882. He moved to New York in 1...

Paxton, William McGregor, 1869-1941

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Painter, teacher; Boston, Massachusetts. Paxton was born in Baltimore in 1869. He was raised outside of Boston, Mass., trained in Paris and Boston, and taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He was an active participant in several artists' organizations in Boston, Provincetown, and New York City. Elizabeth Okie Paxton was born in Providence, R.I. to Howard Okie, a Baltimore physician who had been brought to Providence by a wealthy patron, Thomas Ives, a...