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Birth
1852 (Orchard Park, New York)
Death
1919 (Missoula, Montana)
Lived/Active
Montana
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Indian-frontier-animal, portrait paintings
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Western Painters
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| An artist of the vanishing West, Edgar Paxson was on the frontier just before Frederic Remington and Charles Russell, and his 1877 arrival in Montana occurred when Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce Indians were warring their way through Canada. Paxson became a close friend of Russell, who arrived in Montana in 1880, and the two men became the state's most famous early or pioneer resident artists. Among the things they shared was a mutual pride at being self taught and a love of expressi (showing 500 of 9538 characters). |
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