Arthur Parton
American painter (1842–1914)
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Arthur Parton (1842–1914) was an American landscape painter. He was a member of the Hudson River School.[1]
Arthur Parton | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1842 Hudson, New York, U.S. |
| Died | 1914 (aged 71–72) Yonkers, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Landscape painter |
Biography
Parton was born in 1842 in Hudson, New York.[2] He was trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under the tutelage of William Trost Richards.[2] Parton began exhibiting his work in Philadelphia when he was 22.[3] He spent a year in Europe in 1869, after which his paintings began to take on aspects of the Barbizon School.[2]
Parton had a studio at the Tenth Street Studio Building in New York City from 1874 to 1893. His Shenandoah River painting was published in William Cullen Bryant's Picturesque America.[2]
Parton became an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1871. He was named a National Academician in 1884.[4] Parton's 1889 Winter on the Hudson won the Temple Silver Medal.[5]
In 1893, Parton sold 119 of his paintings at the Fifth Avenue Art Galleries in New York City.[6] He died in 1914 in Yonkers, New York.[2] His brother, Ernest Parton, was also a painter.[3]
