Woman Sewing

ca. 1913

William McGregor Paxton American, 1869-1941

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American, Level 2, West Wing

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About the Artwork

Woman Sewing is typical of the work that Paxton was doing after 1910 when he turned his attention to the middle and servant classes. The model for this was a favorite of Paxton’s who appears in many other canvases. As with Dutch painting of the seventeenth century, which he greatly admired, there are often paintings within the painting that have a common relationship with the subject. Here, the painting on the wall is an earlier work employing the same model.

Title Woman Sewing

Artwork Date ca. 1913

Artist William McGregor Paxton

Life Dates 1869-1941

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 30 × 25 inches (76.2 × 63.5 cm) Framed: 42 9/16 × 37 9/16 × 3 inches (108.1 × 95.4 × 7.6 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department American Art before 1950

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Merrill Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 21.70

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Signed Signed, upper right: PAXTON

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William McGregor Paxton

1921-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Seventh Annual Exhibition of Paintings by American Artists. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1921, no. 100.

A Visitor’s Guide, Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1995, p. 83 (ill.).

American Beauty: Painting and Sculpture from the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1770-1920. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 2002, pp. 13-14, no. 6 (ill.).

Crane, Michael. Detroit's Annual Exhibition of American Art: The Foundation of a Collection. www.dia.org/research/online_publications/annual_american_art, 2005.

Faquin, Jane Ward. William McGregor Paxton and Elizabeth Okie Paxton: An Artistic Partnership. Exh. cat., Dixon Gallery and Gardens. Memphis, 2019, pp. 50-51, cat. 16 (ill.).

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