Arthur Parton

Arthur Parton (1842–1914) was an American landscape painter. He was a member of the Hudson River School.

Biography Parton was born in 1842 in Hudson, New York. He was trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under the tutelage of William Trost Richards. He spent a year in Europe in 1869, after which his paintings began to take on aspects of the Barbizon School. Parton's 1889 Winter on the Hudson won the Temple Silver Medal.

In 1893, Parton sold 119 of his paintings at the Fifth Avenue Art Galleries in New York City. He died in 1914 in Yonkers, New York. His brother, Ernest Parton, was also a painter.