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Arthur Parton
1842 – 1914
Arthur Parton was born in 1842 in Hudson, New York, where his father
was a cabinet maker. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts as a student of William Trost Richards, and in 1862,
his first exhibition was in Philadelphia. In 1869, he spent a
year in Europe where he was influenced by the Barbizon style of
painting. In 1874, he and his wife moved into the Tenth Street
Building in New York City, and he kept his studio there until
1893. He spent summers painting in the Adirondacks and Catskill
Mountains and also made trips to England and Scotland. Parton
died in 1914.
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