biography of Ethel Easton PAXSON (1885-1982)

Birth place: Meriden, CT

Addresses: Essex, CT; NYC

Profession: Landscape painter, teacher, writer, lecturer

Studied: Lilla Yale in Meriden, CT; Corcoran Art Sch. with E. Messer, M. Mueden; PAFA with W. M. Chase, C. Beaux, T. Anschutz, H. Breckeridge, H. R. Poore; R. Johonnot in NYC.

Exhibited: S. Indp. A., 1921, 1923, 1925; NAD; NAWA; Allied Artists Am.; AWCS, 1945-46; CAFA; Meriden Arts & Crafts Assn. (prize); Art Lg. Nassau County; AAPL; Wolfe Art Club; New Haven PCC, annually; Long Island Univ. Newhouse Gal.; Argent Gal.; Marquis Gal.; Grand Central AG, NYC; Marbella Gal., NYC, 1973 (and USA tour)

Member: AWCS; Allied Artists Am.; NAWA; Art Lg. Nassau County; Meriden Arts & Crafts Assn.; Wolfe Art Club; New Haven PCC; AAPL

Work: MMA; New Britain Mus. Am. Art; Heckscher Mus., Huntington, NY; Parrish Art Mus., Southampton, NY; Mattatuck Mus., Waterbury, CT; Meriden Hist. Soc.; Robert Hull Fleming Mus., Burlington, VT; Colby Art Mus.; Park Strathmore Gal., Rockford, IL; Marbella Gal.; Grand Central Art Gal.; Art Center, Florence Griswold Mus., both in Old Lyme, CT; Am. Embassy, Rio De Janeiro; Landmann Collection, S„o Paulo; Thomas Jefferson House, Brasilia; Florence Griswold Mus., Old Lyme, CT

Comments: One of the first American Impressionists to paint in South America, living in Brazil with her husband Clement Esmond Paxson, from 1916-21. When she returned to the United States she taught painting in Vermont and Connecticut. She traveled thoughout her life and produced more than 2,000 paintings and continued to paint until the last year of her life. In 1971 she married Chester H. Du Clos. Positions: lecturer/instructor, NAD; NAWA; Frick Mus.; Nassau Inst. Art; "Highfields," Weston, VT (summers, 1936-41); Am. School, Rio de Janeiro; Bell Art Lg. (1948-49); Creative Arts School, New York; Art Classes, Central Park (1944-45); artist's studio, Kew Gardens, NY. Writer/Illustr.: Brazilian American (Rio de Janeiro). Contrib.: articles, Woman's Home Companion, American Magazine. She was also the author of five books, including My Love Affair with Brazil (1968); Sonnets and Other Poems (c.1969).

Sources: WW59; WW47; Pisano, One Hundred Years...the National Association of Women Artists, 76.