Elizabeth Okie Paxton

Elizabeth was born in 1879 in Providence, RI and died in Boston in 1971. She studied with Joseph R. DeCamp at the Cowles Art School (Boston); was a pupil of her husband William McGregor Paxton at the Fenway Studios (Boston); and took private lessons in painting from Edmund C. Tarbell and Philip Leslie Hale (Boston, 1900-1903). From Tarbell she learned to soften edges and learn how to paint the bed-bug line in contour shadows and from Hale she learned to paint outdoors in a more impressionistic manner. She was known for having painted sumptuous still life subjects and landscapes and portraits. 

Memberships include the Guild of Boston Artists, North Shore AA and the Rockport AA (MA). She was given a solo exhibition at the Guild of Boston Artists in 1915. Awards: silver medal, Pan-Pacific Exposition, 1915, San Francisco; Alice Worthington Ball Prize, North Shore AA (1927); Richard Mitton Award, Jordan Marsh, Boston (1932, 1933); National Godl Medal, Council Amer. Society and the Huntington Award (ca. 1929).

Reference, Patricia Jobe Pierce, Edmund C. Tarbell and the Boston School (1980), Dictionary of Boston Painters, p. 167.