William McGregor Paxton

The artist
Metropolitan Theater, Boston, Massachusetts (acquired from the above)
Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts
Mr. Arrowsmith, New York
M.R. Schweitzer Gallery, New York, by 1966
Private collection, Michigan (sold: Sotheby's, Los Angeles, California, February 9, 1982, lot 232)
American Art Search, Inc., Seekonk, Massachusetts (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1992

Letter, Director of the City Art Museum of St. Louis, to Paxton, June 21, 1912, Archives, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri
Ellen Wardwell Lee, et al., William McGregor Paxton 1869-1941, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1979, p. 113

St. Louis, Missouri, City Art Museum of St. Louis, Seventh Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists, September-October 1912, no. 81
Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago, Twenty-Fifth Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings and Sculpture, November-December 1912
Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Fourth Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Contemporary American Artists, December 1912-June 1913, no. 12
Boston, Massachusetts, St. Botolph Club, Paintings by William McGregor Paxton, February 1913, no. 17
New York, Macbeth Gallery, Selected Group of American Artists, March-April 1913
Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati Art Museum, Twenty-First Annual Exhibition of American Art, May-July 1914, no. 32, illustrated
San Francisco, California, Palace of Fine Arts, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, February-December 1915, no. 3784
New York, M.R. Schweitzer Gallery, Americans Home and Abroad, December 1966, no. 20, illustrated (as Japanese Doll)