Study of Maxwell Simpson (1896 - 1984). American. Just One Drawing on Paper. Measure 10"in H x 7 1/2"in W. Maxwell Stewart Simpson was born September 11, 1896, in Elizabeth, New Jersey. In 1914, Simpson began his formal art studies in New York at the National Academy of Design School under Douglas Volk. He also attended summer classes at the Art Students League in 1916. In 1923, Simpson traveled to Paris and Italy, and in the spring of 1924 to Oxford England, where he stayed with a university professor while studying, painting portraits of the family's three children in exchange for board. Upon his return to the United States, Simpson floundered for several years not satisfied with the realist style he had been painting and not fully accepting the avante-garde art of Europe that had flourished in America since the groundbreaking Armory Show in 1913. After viewing a New York gallery exhibition in 1927, Simpson developed painting methods that would take on a new direction with the influences of George C. Ault, Ernest Fiene, Charles Demuth, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. Simpson had become one of New Jersey's foremost modernist painters and in 1959 was honored as "New Jersey Artist of the Year." Maxwell Stewart Simpson's work is in the collections of the Montclair Art Museum, the National Art Gallery in Washington, D.C.; the Newark Museum; the Shelburne Art Museum; and the Museum of the Briarcliff School in New York City.

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