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All Paxton, William McGregor 's Paintings
The Painting Names Are Sorted From A to Z

ID Image  Painting (From A to Z)       Details 
19792  
Portrait of Enid Hallin, Paxton, William McGregor
  		 Portrait of Enid Hallin   Oil on board.
19795  
Reverie, Paxton, William McGregor
  		 Reverie   1917 Oil on canvas.
19793  
The Album, Paxton, William McGregor
  		 The Album   1913 Private collection.
19790  
The Croquet Players, Paxton, William McGregor
  		 The Croquet Players   1898 Oil on canvas Private collection, Boston.
19791  
The Front Parlor, Paxton, William McGregor
  		 The Front Parlor   1904 Oil on canvas.
19794  
The Other Room, Paxton, William McGregor
  		 The Other Room   1916 Oil on canvas El Paso Museum of Art.
Paxton, William McGregor
American Painter, 1869-1941 was an American Impressionist painter. Born in Baltimore, the Paxton family came to Newton Corner in the mid-1870s, where William's father James established himself as a caterer. At 18, William won a scholarship to attend the Cowles Art School, where he began his art studies with Dennis Miller Bunker. Later he studied with Jean-L??on G??rôme in Paris and, on his return to Boston, with Joseph DeCamp at Cowles. There he met his future wife Elizabeth Okie, who also was studying with DeCamp. After their marriage, William and Elizabeth lived with his parents at 43 Elmwood Street, and later bought a house at 19 Montvale Road in Newton Centre. Paxton, who is best known as a portrait painter, taught at the Museum School from 1906 to 1913. Along with other well known artists of the era, including Edmund Charles Tarbell and Frank Benson, he is identified with the Boston School. Like many of his Boston colleagues, Paxton found inspiration in the work of the seventeenth-century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. Paxton was fascinated not only with Vermeer's imagery, but also with the system of optics he employed. He studied Vermeer's works closely, and discovered that only one area in his compositions was entirely in focus, while the rest were somewhat blurred. Paxton ascribed this peculiarity to "binocular vision," crediting Vermeer with recording the slightly different point of view of each individual eye that combine in human sight. He began to employ this system in his own work, including The New Necklace, where only the gold beads are sharply defined while the rest of the objects in the composition have softer, blurrier edges.



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