OIL PAINTING: Cherry, 1906
Paxton had perfected his version of the subject that remains the hallmark of the Boston School: elegant women in well-appointed parlors. Like Tarbell, Paxton took inspiration from the luminous effects and intimate settings of the seventeenth- century Dutch master Jan Vermeer. In 1913, Paxton assisted artist/critic Philip Hale in editing the first American book on Vermeer.