Ms. Paxton was born in 1879 in Providence R .I. and died in Boston in 1971. She studied with Joseph DeCamp at the Cowles Art School in Boston. Elizabeth was also a pupil of her husband William M. Paxton. She also received private lessons with Tarbell and Hale from 1900 to 1905. Her typical subject was still life with Japanese porcelain; landscapes of impressionistic manner and portraits. The most major influence on her work was Paxton and Tarbell. She worked mainly in oil.
Elizabeth Paxton had memberships in GBA; North Shore Art Association; Boston Art Association. She exhibited at the GBA, April. 1915 awarded a silver medal, at the Pan Pacific in San Francisco in 1915, awarded the Alice Worthington Ball prize, North Shore Art Association,1927 "Still life"; Richard Milton Award, Jordan Marsh, Boston 1932, 1933; National Gold medal, Council American Society; Huntington award, c. 1929, Still life "At Auction".
Listed:
The Ten, P.J. Pierce, 1976 Rumford Press. pp127-22
Distinguished American Paintings cat. National Academy of Design, N.Y.
Boston Painters Past & Present , exh. cat., Concourse Gallery, Boston, 5/5/-7/11/75
Selected American Paintings, vol.2, Pierce Ga
Biography courtesy of Roughton Galleries, www.antiquesandfineart.com/roughton
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