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Lawton S. Gray Parker
Artist
1868-1954
A budding talent discovered by Purcell's grandfather through a competition in The Interior, Lawton S. Parker proved himself an extraordinarily sensitive painter in the Impressionist idiom. Most widely known as a portraitist, Parker was redeemed from the life of a farm hand and sent first to the Art Institute school in Chicago and then New York, and later in 1890-1891 to Paris. His return to Chicago in time for the World's Columbian Exposition resulted in a full body portrait of his benefactor, painting while at Island Lake Camp, that was exhibited in the "Chicago Hall of Fame." This same painting was later installed permanently in the entryway at Lake Place, Purcell's home in Minneapolis. Parker felt this picture was inadequate, and painted a second portrait in 1894.
Images
Circa 1891
Newspaper clipping [Chicago Tribune?] about the growing success of Lawton Parker as a tribute to the insight of W. C. Gray, 1892
Island Lake
Oil on canvas
Lawton S. G. Parker 1892
W. C. Gray at his desk in The Interior offices
Photograph by Lawton S. G. Parker, 1894
Portrait of W. C. Gray
Oil on canvas
Lawton S. G. Parker 1894
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research courtesy mark hammons