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AEDEdgar S. Paxson (1852-1919) Gouache Painting c1913
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This is an original Edgar Samuel Paxson (1852-1919) gouache and watercolor painting titled "on Rattlesnake”, a beautiful Montana landscape signed lower right, “E.S. Paxson 1913. The painting is signed lower right E.S. Paxson dated 1913 and on the back, “Sold Miss Carrington ‘on Rattlesnake’ 15.00 #238”. The image shows a towering Montana mountain with canyon walls leading to a winding river with rolling foreground of Montana and a glorious Montana sky. Edgar Samuel Paxson (April 25, 1852 – November 9, 1919) was a notable Montana artist of the American frontier, scout, soldier who was based in Montana. Paxson was on the frontier before Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell. He arrived in Montana in 1877 when Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce Indians were warring their way through Cananda. He is best known for his portraits of Native Americans in the Old West and for his depiction of the Battle of the Little Bighorn in his painting, “Custer’s Last Stand”. Paxson became a close friend of Russell, who arrived in Montana in 1880, and the two men became the state's most famous early or pioneer resident artists. Among the things they shared was a mutual pride at being self-taught and a love of expressing aspects of Montana's frontier history. Some of his most sought-after works are his small watercolors. In 1881, he settled in Butte, where he found more lucrative business, and in 1905, he settled in Missoula. He deployed with Company G Butte 1st Montana Volunteer Infantry in 1895 in the Spanish American War with his sons. His work is highly desirable with many of his most notable pieces on permanent display at the Montana Capitol Building in Helena, Montana. Original works by E.S. Paxson are increasingly scarce with similar gouache and watercolor paintings being highly desired such as: The Last of the Herd a landscape with single buffalo watercolor in similar size which sold for $12,000 in The Russell sale March 2015; gouache landscape Marcus Daly Ranch which sold in March in Montana’s Mach 2020 sale for $36,000; and the watercolor of Chief Joseph which sold at Jackson Hole Art Auction’s September 2023 sale for $36,000; also see the E.S. Paxson Crow Indian small watercolor sold in March 2026 at The Russell Western Art in Great Falls for $15,860, the most recent and comparable sale. The visible art measures 10-inches by 7-inches.
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