The Breakfast Tray
c. 1910
Artist, American, 1878 - 1972
Elizabeth Okie Paxton
West Building Main Floor, Gallery 70
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
Gift of Funds from Mary and Allan Kollar in honor of Nancy K. Anderson
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Dimensions
overall: 53.34 × 43.18 cm (21 × 17 in.)
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Accession Number
2023.138.1
More About this Artwork
Article: The Quiet Revolutions of Boston's Women Artists
The women who fought to become artists in the 19th century, only to have their contributions forgotten for nearly a century.
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The artist; acquired 1925 by Misses Norton, Louisville, Kentucky; private collection, New York; (Vose Galleries, Boston); acquired September 1986 by private collection, Denver, Colorado; purchased 2023 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1911
The Exhibition of Boston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1911, no. 40
1913
Eighty-Eight Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, 1913, no. 244.
1914
Paintings by a Group of Boston Women, Drawings of Game Birds by Frank W. Benson, Monoprints by H. W. Rubins, Detroit Museum of Art, April, 1914, n. 8.
1924
Eighteenth Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings and Small Bronzes by American Artists, The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Albright Art Gallery, 1924, no. 160, repro. 104.
1958
Elizabeth Paxton. Recent and Earlier Paintings. Still Life and Landscape, The Guild of Boston Artists, Boston, 1958, no.9.
2001
A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston, 1870-1940, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2001, unumbered catalogue, pl.56.
2013
Art and Appetite. American Painting, Culture and Cuisine, The Art Institue of Chicago; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, 2013-2014, no. 46, repro. fig. 5.
Bibliography
2014
Tobey, Rena. "Elizabeth Okie Paxton and the Breakfast Tray. The Modernity of a New Woman Artist." Art Times 31, no. 1 (Summer 2014): 1, 15, repro. 15.
2019
Ward Faquin, Jane. "William McGregor Paxton and Elizabeth Okie Paxton." The American Art Review 31, no. 3 (May-June 2019): 60-67.
Ward Faquin, Jane. William McGregor Paxton and Elizabteh Okie Paxton. An Artistic Partnership. Exh. cat. Dixon Galleries and Gardens; The Butler Institute for American Art. Memphis and Youngstown, 2019: 40, fig. 2.5.