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Born MI; Lived NYC, France; Died in Paris, France

Landscape painter, Writer

Member: NY Watercolor Club, Salmagundi Club, American Federation of Arts

Horton was a wealthy man, and a friend of famous artists such as Monet, Degas, Derain, and other Impressionists. After his early Paris exhibitions he rarely allowed his works to be sold. When he died, his estate contained more than 1,000 oils, pastels, and watercolors

Collection Brooklyn Museum

Collection National Museum of American Art in Washington, DC

Exhibitions

Literature

Gibson, Artists of Early Michigan, 138

A. Bury, article, Connoisseur Year Book (1959)

Louis Vauxelles, “ An Appreciation of Wm. S. Horton” (Gal. Charpentier, Paris, 1939)

Biography by Carlotta Horton, Documents series, Les Chaiers d’Art (P. Callier, Geneva, No. 195, 1963)

Exh. cat. Knoedler Gal. (NYC, 1974)

Exh. cat., Robt. Rice Gal. (Houston, 1979)

Exh. cat., Hammer Gal. (NYC, 1981)

Exh. cat. Vose Gal. (Boston, n.d., 1980s)

Fink Am. Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 357

Falk, Exh. Record Series