John Buxton

John Buxton was born and raised in the small town of Oxford, North Carolina, where from childhood he excelled at drawing and painting. After two years of general college in his home state, he traveled to Los Angeles and earned a degree in illustration from the Art Center College of Design.

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He was a successful illustrator for 31 years, working in Detroit, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh. During this period, he illustrated two books for the National Geographic Society, thereby developing a fascination with documentation and truth in art. In 1994, he left illustration and began painting subjects of more personal interest to him.

Buxton soon began exhibiting his new oil paintings, placing two works in the Birds in Artshow at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum. The paintings were later reproduced in The Best of Wildlife Art 2 by Rachel Rubin Wolf. The Society of Animal Artists elected him to membership and invited him to their national exhibitions, and he exhibited with the American Academy of Equine Artists before settling into his true niche: historical art.

Feature articles on Buxton and his art have appeared in American’s First Freedom, Art of the West, U.S. Art, and Westsylvania magazines, and The Artists awarded his painting How Many Beaver? first place in its art competition’s 2005 Portrait/Figure Division. He has participated in the Autry National Center of the American West’s Masters of the American West Fine Art Exhibition and Sale;the miniature shows at the Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Settlers West Galleries Inc., Tucson, Arizona; and the Quest for the West Show and Sale at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was recently accepted as a member of the Oil Painters of America, and he received the 2009 Patrons’ Choice Award at the Eiteljorg Museum’s Quest for the West Art Show and Sale.

Buxton and his wife, Noralee, have two children, Bryan and Megan, and they are blessed with four grandchildren

John Buxton is represented by Settlers West Galleries Inc., Tucson, Arizona. Giclée reproductions of his work are available through Greenwich Workshop dealers.