The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Parker, Lawton S.

PARKER, Lawton S., American portrait painter: b. Fairfield, Mich., 7 April 1868. He studied at the École des Beaux Arts, Paris, and in 1892 was appointed professor of the Saint Louis School of Fine Arts. He became director of art at Beloit College in 1893, president of the New York School of Art in 1898-99, and of the Chicago School of Fine Arts in 1903. Among his sitters are Martin A. Ryerson, J. Ogden Armour, N. W. Harris, Harry P. Judson and Peter S. Grosscup, his portraits being marked by excellent characterization. He received dhe silver medal at the Saint Louis Exposition in 1904; gold medals at the International Exposition, Munich, in 1905, and at the Paris Salon in 1913; and was awarded the medal of honor at the Panama Exposition in 1915.