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.
Bringing the Cattle Home
24 x 40 inches
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left