WILLIAM MCGREGOR PAXTON (1869-1941)
Lot 236 Property from the Saint Louis Art Museum, Sold to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund

WILLIAM MCGREGOR PAXTON (1869-1941)

The Front Parlor

Closed18 May 2021

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WILLIAM MCGREGOR PAXTON (1869-1941)
The Front Parlor
signed and dated 'Paxton-1913.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
27 x 22 in. (68.6 x 55.9 cm.)
Painted in 1913.

The artist.
Estate of the above.
Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts.
Cora E. Ludwig and Edward Mallinckrodt Sr., acquired from the above.
Bequest to the present owner from the above, 1974.

Specialist note


The artist's wife Elizabeth modeled for the present work, which was painted during the summer of 1913 in a Victorian house in Hyannis, Massachusetts. According to Charles Buckley, "The Front Parlor, which was painted in 1913, is one of the artist's best known works and it is fully characteristic of his mature style." ("The Front Parlor by William McGregor Paxton," Saint Louis Art Museum Bulletin, vol. 11, no. 6, p. 107)