Ethel Paxson does not have an image.
Ethel Paxson
Painter
(March 23, 1885–July 5, 1982)
Ethel Paxson (1885-1982) was born in Meriden, Connecticut on March 23, 1885. She was an accomplished painter, writer and art teacher.
She was the daughter of Walter R. and Elma Kinney Easton. Her family helped found the Unitarian Universalist Church of Meriden. At the age of fifteen Paxson studied with artist Lilla Yale, who had studied under William Merritt Chase. In 1905 Ethel married Clement Paxson and moved to Washington, D.C. Paxson studied at the Corcoran Art School in Washington, D.C. with Edmund Messer and Mathild Mueden and then in 1909 at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia where she studied under William Merritt Chase, Cecelia Beaux, Thomas Anschutz, Hugh Breckenridge, and Henry Rankin Poore. In 1916 her husband was sent to Brazil where he was the chief engineer for telephone companies installing lines there. Ethel went to Brazil with him and painted the countryside and seashore. She was one of the first American impressionist artists to paint there.
Upon returning to the United States Paxson taught art in Meriden and at the Art Institute of Nassau County. She taught summer classes in Weston, Vermont from 1936-1941. She held art classes in Central Park in 1944-45. In 1971 she married Chester H. Du Clos.
She was a member of the American Watercolor Society, the Allied Artists of America, the National Association of Women Artists, the Art League of Nassau County, the Meriden Arts and Crafts Association, the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, the New Haven Paint and Clay Club, and the American Artists Professional League.
She has exhibited at the National Academy of Design, the American Watercolor Society, the National Association of Women Artists, the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, the Meriden Arts and Crafts Association, the American Artists Professional League, the New Haven Paint and Clay Club, the Allied Artists of America, and Long Island University. Her work is represented in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Embassy, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, Connecticut, the Florence Griswold Museum, and the Arts and Crafts Association, Inc., Meriden, Connecticut.
In 1971 she married Chester H. Du Clos. Paxton produced more than 2,000 paintings and was the author of five books. She died in Essex, Connecticut on July 5, 1882.
Painter
(March 23, 1885–July 5, 1982)
Ethel Paxson (1885-1982) was born in Meriden, Connecticut on March 23, 1885. She was an accomplished painter, writer and art teacher.
She was the daughter of Walter R. and Elma Kinney Easton. Her family helped found the Unitarian Universalist Church of Meriden. At the age of fifteen Paxson studied with artist Lilla Yale, who had studied under William Merritt Chase. In 1905 Ethel married Clement Paxson and moved to Washington, D.C. Paxson studied at the Corcoran Art School in Washington, D.C. with Edmund Messer and Mathild Mueden and then in 1909 at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia where she studied under William Merritt Chase, Cecelia Beaux, Thomas Anschutz, Hugh Breckenridge, and Henry Rankin Poore. In 1916 her husband was sent to Brazil where he was the chief engineer for telephone companies installing lines there. Ethel went to Brazil with him and painted the countryside and seashore. She was one of the first American impressionist artists to paint there.
Upon returning to the United States Paxson taught art in Meriden and at the Art Institute of Nassau County. She taught summer classes in Weston, Vermont from 1936-1941. She held art classes in Central Park in 1944-45. In 1971 she married Chester H. Du Clos.
She was a member of the American Watercolor Society, the Allied Artists of America, the National Association of Women Artists, the Art League of Nassau County, the Meriden Arts and Crafts Association, the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, the New Haven Paint and Clay Club, and the American Artists Professional League.
She has exhibited at the National Academy of Design, the American Watercolor Society, the National Association of Women Artists, the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, the Meriden Arts and Crafts Association, the American Artists Professional League, the New Haven Paint and Clay Club, the Allied Artists of America, and Long Island University. Her work is represented in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Embassy, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, Connecticut, the Florence Griswold Museum, and the Arts and Crafts Association, Inc., Meriden, Connecticut.
In 1971 she married Chester H. Du Clos. Paxton produced more than 2,000 paintings and was the author of five books. She died in Essex, Connecticut on July 5, 1882.
Artist Objects
Autumn Landscape, 1908 1985.24
