William McGregor Paxton papers
name: label: Creator
content: Paxton, William McGregor, 1869-1941
label: Names
content: Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936
label: Names
content: Burdick, Horace Robbins, 1844-1942
label: Names
content: Cox, Kenyon, 1856-1919
label: Names
content: Dewing, M. O. (Maria Oakey), 1855-1927
label: Names
content: Eakins, Susan Macdowell
label: Names
content: Hale, Philip Leslie, 1865-1931
label: Names
content: Paxton, Elizabeth Okie
label: Names
content: Wales, George Canning, 1868-1940
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art teachers -- Massachusetts -- Boston
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Massachusetts -- Boston
label: Topic
content: Painting, American
label: Topic
content: Art -- Study and teaching -- Massachusetts
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Papers on reels 3714-3715 were donated by Robert Douglas Hunter, executor of Elizabeth Oakie Paxton's estate. He also lent for microfilming the sketchbooks on reel 640 and the scrapbook on reel 862 in l973 & 1974, respectively. The scrapbook was subsequently donated by Hunter in 1997, and the sketchbooks were subsequently donated in 1998 by his wife, Elizabeth Ives Hunter along with additional papers of Paxton and those of Elizabeth Okie Paxton. Additions are expected.
creator: label: Creator
content: Paxton, William McGregor, 1869-1941
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter, teacher; Boston, Massachusetts.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, an uncle of Robert Hales Ives Gammell, painter, writer, and friend of the Paxtons. She met Paxton while studying with with him. After marriage they resided Newton Centre, Mass. Following Paxton's death, she lived in a studio/residence in the Fenway Studios, Boston.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4.1 Linear Feet ((partially microfilmed on 4 reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1886-1971
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.paxtwill
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sketchbooks
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 640, 862 & 3714-3715 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sketchbooks
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Reel 640: Originals returned to Robert Hunter after microfilming; most subsequently returned with additional material, 1998.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence; sketchbooks, 1 scrapbook; photographs; drawings; glass negatives; and printing plates.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 640: Sketchbooks, 7 v., 1886, 1888-1920, 1896 & undated, France, Boston, and elsewhere. Most of the sketches are in pencil. [Previously filmed on reel 593.]
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 862: Scrapbook, 1 v., 1893-1953, including: clippings,announcements and reviews of Paxton's exhibitions covering most of his career and several years after his death, reproductions of his work, and letters and telegrams with galleries and others. Also included is a letter from Robert Hale Ives Gammell to Elizabeth Paxton, 1953.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REELS 3714-3715: Correspondence of William McGregor Paxton and of his wife, Elizabeth, including letters from Philip Leslie Hale, Kenyon Cox, Maria Oakey Dewing, Edwin Blashfield, Horace Burdick, Susan Eakins, George Wales, from sitters thanking Paxton for their portraits, and from others. Elizabeth Paxton correspondence relates to her own paintings and exhibitions, donations, and sales of her husband's paintings after his death; poems, 2 notebooks and other writings; card files listing portrait information; clippings; exhibition catalogs and announcements; and lists of paintings.
label: Scope and Contents
content: UNMICROFILMED: Undated drawings and a sketchbook; 9 etchings by Paxton, ca. 1918-1938?; photographs, undated and 1896-1941, of works of art, Paxton, and of miscellaneous subjects; and glass negatives, half-tone printing plates, copper and zinc printing plates.
label: Scope and Contents
content: ADDITION: Biographical documentation; family genealogy; sketchbooks, some containing loose sketches done at a later date [most previously filmed on reel 640 as a loan]; photographs of Paxton and his work; reproductions of work by him and of art used as reference by Paxton; clippings; and posthumous exhibition material. ca. 1870s-1979. Also, Elizabeth Okie Paxton (ca. 1878-ca. 1968): biographical information; correspondence; exhibition and sales records; illustrations of her studio/residence, Boston; printed material; photographs of her, her family, and her work; and correspondence regarding William Paxton exhibitions. ca. 1880s-ca. 1968.