Little Russian (1933). William McGregor Paxton (American, 1869-1941). Oil on canvas. Paxton is one of the key figures in the Boston School of painting and a co-founder of The Guild of Boston Artists...
Tea Leaves, 1909 William McGregor Paxton (American, 1869–1941) Oil on canvas 36 1/8 x 28 3/4 in. (91.6 x 71.9 cm) Gift of George A. Hearn, 1910 (10.64.8) In a windowless parlor permeated by soft light, a dreamy atmosphere, and the sounds of silence, two elegant women pass the time by doing very little or nothing at all. Paxton hints at a narrative, but he asks that the viewer invent it, recapitulating the ambiguity of Vermeer's paintings, which he admired. Paxton often depicted refined women—like his patrons' wives and daughters—at leisure in handsome Boston interiors of the sort that they, as keepers of culture, would have decorated and occupied. By equating women with the precious aesthetic objects that surround them, Paxton echoes the spirit of the novelist Henry James, who portrayed women as collectible objects in The American (1877) and Portrait of a Lady (1881). Paxton's works also accord with pronouncements by the sociologist Thorstein Veblen, who observed in his Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) that a woman's "conspicuous leisure" signaled the wealth of her father or husband.
William McGregor Paxton (American, 1869-1941) Girl Combing Her Hair
William McGregor Paxton The Waitress 1929
William McGregor Paxton "Portrait of Enid Hallin"
William McGregor Paxton The House Maid 1910
William McGregor Paxton
William McGregor Paxton, Tea leaves (detail), 1909
Rose and Blue, 1913 William McGregor Paxton HERE Detail
Автор - ovenca . Это цитата этого сообщения Ах, какие мгновения были! Художник William MacGregor Paxton / Уильям МакГрегор Пэкстон (США, 1869-1941) Girl combing her hair or Young girl with a mirror. 1909 Girl with the Sea Beyond. 1910 Portrait of Mrs Charles Frederic Toppan. 1935 Reddy and the…
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The Housemaid (1910). William McGregor Paxton (1869-1941). Oil on canvas. Paxton and other Boston School artists shared an interest in the 17th century painter Jan Vermeer. The maid's trance-like...
