User:Lbde/Edgar Samuel Paxson

Edgar Samuel Paxson (April 25, 1852, Bucks County, Pennsylvania – November 9, 1919, Missoula, Montana), also known as E.S. Paxson, Ed Paxson, or Edgar Paxson. Paxson was a frontiersman, hunter, Indian scout, stage coach guard, telegraph rider, and in particular a frontier artist in oil and watercolor. Paxson painted his experiences primarily in the Montana Territory of the second half of the 1800’s. He expressed in his works the sentiments of one who experienced the western frontier expansion and the corresponding Indian population’s demise.

Paxson's approximately 2000 works of art embody one of the noblest and most courageous aspects (??? too partial ???) of that era, and include landscapes, panoramas of life in the western wilderness, portraits of the Native Americans whom he so admired and befriended (among them for example Sitting Bull), and various book illustrations, to name a few.

Paxson’s murals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition hang in the Missoula County Courthouse, Missoula, Montana. His works are found in museums and collections worldwide (??? true ???). His masterpiece “Custer’s Last Stand”, as well as “The Last Gleam”, hang in the Whitney Gallery of Western Art in Cody, Wyoming.