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William Samuel Horton Biographie
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Born MI; Lived NYC, France; Died in Paris, France
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Landscape painter, Writer
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Member: NY Watercolor Club, Salmagundi Club, American Federation of Arts
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Horton was a wealthy man, and a friend of famous artists such as Monet, Degas, Derain, and other Impressionists. After his early Paris exhibitions he rarely allowed his works to be sold. When he died, his estate contained more than 1,000 oils, pastels, and watercolors
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Collection Brooklyn Museum
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Collection National Museum of American Art in Washington, DC
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National Academy of Design, 1888-96; Boston Art Club, 1890; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1890-1912; Paris Salon, 1895, 1897-99; Art Institute of Chicago
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Gibson, Artists of Early Michigan, 138
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A. Bury, article, Connoisseur Year Book (1959)
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Louis Vauxelles, “ An Appreciation of Wm. S. Horton” (Gal. Charpentier, Paris, 1939)
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Biography by Carlotta Horton, Documents series, Les Chaiers d’Art (P. Callier, Geneva, No. 195, 1963)
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Exh. cat. Knoedler Gal. (NYC, 1974)
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Exh. cat., Robt. Rice Gal. (Houston, 1979)
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Exh. cat., Hammer Gal. (NYC, 1981)
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Exh. cat. Vose Gal. (Boston, n.d., 1980s)
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Fink Am. Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 357
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