Lawton S. Parker

Lawton Silas Parker ( born August 7, 1868 in Fairfield, Michigan, † September 25, 1954 in Pasadena, California ) was an American Impressionist painter.

With five years Parker and his family moved from Fairfield to Kearney in Nebraska. After completing his schooling, he studied from 1886 at the Chicago Art Institute Art. Supported and encouraged by his teacher, Parker moved two years later to Paris at the Académie Julian. There he was, together with Cecilia Beaux and Louis Paul Dessar student of Adolphe William Bouguereau and Tony Robert -Fleury. Later he returned to New York and joined there as a student at the Art Students League; his teachers were there William Merritt Chase and James McNeill Whistler. A little later, he returned to Paris and was at the École des Beaux -Arts pupil of Jean -Léon Gérôme and Jean Paul Laurens.

1902 Parker settled in Giverny down where his fellow artists Alson Clarke, Frederick Carl Frieseke and Guy Rose already to paint "en pleine air" were staying.

Lawton S. Parker died in 1945 at the age of 77 years.

Works (selection)

• English girl
• Spring, Santa Barbara
• Early Spring
• Lady in forrest
• Reclining nude
• Summer garden
• Rhododendron

• American painter
• Born in 1868
• Died in 1954
• Man