AVAILABLE PAINTINGS BY LAWTON PARKER 1868-1954

In 1902 Parker joined a group of American artists in Giverny, France, eager to bask in the glow of neighbor Claude Monet. They became known as the Luminists. He is said to have begun La Paresse when confined indoors by a Giverny rainstorm.

La Paresse would win him a gold medal from the Société des Artistes Français in 1913, the highest award available to a foreigner by the annual Paris Salon. Despite offers, he refused to sell La Paresse. "English Girl" had earlier won him a medal at the Munich International in 1905.
Through the years he proved to be not only one of America’s highest profile painters, but an able art school administrator and a skilled businessman. His stock market prowess bought him a fine home called Chateau d'Andecy on six acres in Plailly, 20 miles northeast of Paris. In 1927, just shy of 60, he married Beatrice Snow.

During World War II, Parker was held in Paris for two years by the Nazi regime until he, wearing peasant disguise, escaped into unoccupied territory. During this time, his home in Plailly was destroyed along with many of his paintings. He spent his final years in Pasadena, California.