ARTHUR B. PARTON

Birth place: Hudson, NY

Addresses: Yonkers, NY

Profession: Landscape painter

Studied: W.T. Richards in Philadelphia; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

Exhibited: National Academy of Design, 1862-1914, 1896 (prize); Corcoran Gallery, 1907-08, 1910;

Brooklyn Art Academy, 1866-85; Philadelphia Centennial Expo, 1876; Boston Arts Club, 1882-1909; NYC, 1886 (gold);

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Annual, 1889 (Temple gold medal), 1891, 1896-97, 1905; Paris Expo, 1889; St. Louis Expo,

 1904 (medal); Art Institute of Chicago

Member: Associate National Academy, 1871; National Academy, 1884; American Water Color Society; Artists Fund Soc.

Work: Brooklyn Institute Museum; Indianapolis Art Academy; Metropolitan Museum of Art

Comments: Best known for his landscapes of the Adirondack and Catskill mountains, Parton was a well-known figure

in the New York art world who exhibited annually at the National Academy for more than half a century. From 1874-93, he kept

 his studio at the Tenth Street Studio (51 West 10th St.). He had visited Europe in 1869, and was influenced by the Barbizon style,

 but his work still retained a closer affinity to the second generation of Hudson River School painters. In 1872, his view on the Shenandoah

River, VA, was published in Bryant's Picturesque America. He was one of the Parton brothers, with Ernest and Henry.

Sources: Who’s Who 1913; Wright, Artists in Virginia Before 1900; exhibition catalog Columbia County Historical Soc.

(Kinderhook, NY, 1998); Falk, Exhibition Record Series.

This biography is drawn from the "Who Was Who in American Art" , the reference book on the cultural life in the United States.

Known as a Hudson River painter, Arthur Parton was born in Hudson, New York to a religious

family supported by a cabinetmaker father. He enrolled in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts as a student of

William Trost Richards who remained a strong influence.

In 1864, he moved to New York City and exhibited regularly with the National Academy of Design until 1865

when he went to Europe. 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 in England and Scotland.

He explored several styles including Tonalism and Impressionism.

Source: Michael David Zellman, "300 Years of American Art"

 Museums (14):

Periodicals:  American Art Review, October, 1998, Landscapes the Parton Brothers

Books (42):

Bailey, James, History of Town of Keene, N Y

Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Ed), The Artists Bluebook

Spanierman Gallery, Fine American Art from 1845 to 1960

Davenport, Ray, Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition

Falk, Peter Hastings, Who Was Who in American Art1564-1975

Calo, Mary Ann, Critical Issues in American Art

Driscoll, John Paul, All That Is Glorious Around Us

Barnhill, Georgia B, Wild Impressions, The Adirondacks on Paper

Carr, Carolyn K, Revisiting the White City, American Art at the 1893 World's Fair

Baekland, Frederick, Images of America, The Painter's Eye, 1833-1925

Falk, Peter Hastings, Annual Exhibition Record, 1901-1950, National Academy of Design

Gerdts, William H, Art Across America (East) ( Vol 1)

Blaugrund, Annette, Paris 1889, American Artists at the Universal Exposition

Falk, Peter Hastings, Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Falk, Peter Hastings, Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-18, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Falk, Peter Hastings, Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram

Howat, John K, American Paradise, World of the Hudson River School 

Opitz, Glenn B, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary American Painters, Sculptors, Engravers

Zellman, Michael David, 300 Years of American Art

Falk, Peter Hastings, Who Was Who in American Art Artists Active 1898-1947

Brooklyn Museum, American Watercolors, Pastels, Collages/The Brooklyn Museum

Wright, R Lewis Artists in Virginia before 1900

Newark Museum, American Art in the Newark Museum

Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III, The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874

Brooklyn Museum, American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum

Springfield Library & Museum, Museum of Fine Arts The American and European Collections

Flower, Dean/Francis Murphy, American Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings

Heckscher Museum, American Painting

Naylor, Maria, Exhibition Record 1861-1900 National Academy of Design

Tomasini, Wallace, Paintings/Midwestern U Collections

Earle, Helen L, Biographical Sketches of American Artists

North Carolina Museum of Art, North Carolina Collects (loan exhibition N Carolina owned)

Clark, Eliot, History of the National Academy of Design 1825-1953

Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge, Index of Artists, International Biographical

Hartmann, Sadekichi, A History of American Painting

Neuhaus, Eugen, The History and Ideals of American Art

National Academy of Design Commemorative Exhibition 1825-1925

Universal Exposition Editor, Saint Louis, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904