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WILLIAM S. HORTON Piazza Navona, Rome.
Color pastels on paper, 1922. 470x558 mm; 18 1/2x22 inches. Signed and dated in pastel, lower right recto.
William Horton began his artistic studies during his teenage years to study at the Art Institute of Chicago. He then traveled to Paris to study at the prestigius Ecoledes Beaux-Arts and later returned to the United States, continuing his studies at the Art Students League in New York. In 1895 Horton would return to Paris, where he would remain for the majority of his adult life, also preferring the environs of London. In Europe, he became close colleagues with Monet, Pissarro, Whistler and Derain, and was among the first generation of Americans who educated themselves under the French Impressionists. By 1914 his work was exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon.
