Historical Vignettes | John Buxton

• Stepping Up for Hospital Care, Fort Ligonier 1758

  Oil, Canvas, 28 x 30. A commissioned portrait painting of three family members . The family is that of our family doctor, his wife and son. They wanted the painting to be of the 18th century with George Washington. Ther…

• Longeval... The First Americans

  Oil, Canvas, 16 x 24

• A Moment in Time of Family, Clan Mothers and Corncobs 2

  Oil, Canvas, 24 x 36

• ROCK SHELTER

  Oil, Canvas, 32 x 34

• At The Gardens, The Melon Gang

  Oil, 28 x 26. 1st place in Oil division in the 33rd Bosque Art Classic September 2018

• Ox Wagon

  Oil, Canvas, 14 x 18

• Whiteman's Canoe

  Oil, 8 x 10

• Wildflower

  Oil, 13 x 8. Native American men tended to dress and adorn themselves more profusely than did their women. Captured uniforms were utilized as ceremonial or trophy wear. Black full body paint was used for intimidation in…

• Ready to Go

  Oil, 8 x 10

• Partisans at the Trail Des Agniers

  Oil, 30 x 40

• Making Smoke - Building Trade and Trust

  Oil, 30 x 40. Painting Information: This French trader’s acceptance of an offer to “pass the pipe” with these eastern Indians indicates that their negotiations have gone well. They have accepted him as dealing with them…

• Going to Treaty

  Oil, 9 x 12

• Onondaga Speech Maker

  Oil, 12 x 9

• Water Song

  Oil, 24 x 14. Painting Information: A woman, accompanied by her young son, is performing a common task, getting water. But this time she has taken a moment to stop and enjoy the soothing song of the falling water.

• Counsel at the Spring

  Oil, 28 x 24

• The Arrows are Cherokee

  Oil, 12 x 9. Painting Information: Two Northern Natives have stumbled across a quiver of arrows made from cane. The arrows were made by a southern tribe, possibly their enemy, the Cherokee. Has this enemy come up from t…

• Eye of the Hawk

  Oil, 12 x 9

• Coming to Trade

  Oil, 30 x 50. Painting Information: This painting could be the theme image for 16th, 17th and 18th century French and native co-existence in North America. The fur trade helped finance French expansion in the new world…

• A Better Life

  Oil, 24 x 18. Painting Information: Europeans introduced North American native people to wool and linen cloth to replace their clothing fashioned from animal hides. Trade axes and knives of metal supplanted those of sto…

• Discovered

  Oil, 12 x 9

• Distant Echo

  Oil, 12 x 10

• The Chauffer

  Oil, 9 x 12

• Land of the Iroquois

  Oil, 18 x 24. Reproductions of this painting were produced.

• The Legacy

  Oil, 15 x 18

• The Trackers

  Oil, 12 x 16

• Grandfathers

  Oil, 32 x 34

• Better Than One

  Oil, 12 x 10

• Captured Coat

  Oil, 12 x 9

• Secluded Pool

  Oil, 16 x 12. Reproductions of this painting were produced.

• The Helping Hand

  Oil, 13 x 22. It’s pretty common to see things written about the conflicts between the Native Americans and the settlers but friendships must have developed as well. Living on the frontier, they had to get along and tru…

• Priming the Pan

  Oil, 8 x 6

• Sounds of Silence

  Oil, 11 x 15

• Kinsman of the Shawnee

  Oil, 26 x 16. We do know that 18th century French Canadian traders often married native women and adopted the ways of their people to enable closer ties for better trade and protection. These Canadians adopted native dr…

• No Sign of Hostiles

  Oil, 24 x 34. Peaceful existence with it's native population was tenuous at best. Although loyalties and friendships did exist between the encroaching Europeans and some of the original inhabitants. However, there were…

• Speaks of Powerful Deeds

  Oil, 30 x 36

• Breaking Camp at Turtle Creek

  Oil, 30 x 24. The first ray of morning tries to breech a tangle of virgin forest. It skips and dances its illumination across the moving shadow - shapes of a frontier family. Horses appear ready and are being packed for…

• Bear Trap

  Oil, 12 x 9. Early settlers to North America faced many hardships, not the least of which were large predators like the mountain lion, wolf and black bear. As more and more demand for pelts fueled a growing world trade,…

• Stolen Bay

  Oil, 28 x 19

• Dispatch

  Oil, 11 x 9. This Revolutionary War piece depicts a foot soldier delivering a message or "Dispatch" to a Dragoon (an officer on horseback). During the early part of the war American troops were not supplied with uniform…

• Extinct

  Oil, 20 x 12. Native people of eastern North America no longer enjoy the lifestyle existing before contact with Europeans. It might be said their original way is extinct. So it is also with our only indigenous parrot sp…

• High Place

  Oil, 12 x 22. The Native American faced a reevaluation of his very existence. The white man was crowding his homeland and changing the old ways of his people. Sporadic coexistence was proving tentative and often did not…

• Morning Glory

  Oil, 12 x 9. Morning Glory, a Revolutionary War soldier and young girl, each holding a morning glory blossom, enjoying a peaceful moment conversing while on the grounds of a period fort, or is he dreaming of someone he…

• Muted by the Vista

  Oil, 13 x 10. Two frontiersmen, probably militia scouts since they carry the English Brown Bess Musket, pause atop Chestnut Ridge to look westward. Many miles of undulation landscape have abruptly ended, revealing the v…

• Linsey-Wool and a New Dog for Hettie

  Oil, 16 x 25

• Once Upon a Time

  Oil, 20 x 34. The wilds of this new world frontier first saw the traders who dealt with the natives and required, like the natives, only temporary shelter - tents, lean-tos of wigwams.The next wave of Europeans brought…

• Passing the Time of Day

  Oil, 12 x 9. Time passes in different ways. In our modern times, life is governed by the clock. Our goal is to become more efficient. In the 18th century, the quality of one's life was measured with regard to the manner…

• Portage Standoff

  Oil, 14 x 30. Water courses offered the fastest means of travel throughout the frontier, though obstacles often presented barriers. Natural impediments such as rapids, shallow water, no water, or falls necessitated deto…

• Portico Stroll

  Oil, 9 x 19. Under the wisteria portico, 18th century eastern colonial life was quite different than life on the frontier further west. Soldiers here were soon to face a different reality in the deep woods of the Ohio V…

• Negotiations

  Oil, 36 x 46

• Shared Magnetism

  Oil, 9 x 12 3/4. Walking through the woods, haven't you come upon a certain place that seems somehow special - almost spiritual? Humans have left their mark since time began; hence the cave paintings. George Washington…

• Shootn' for Supper

  Oil, 9 x 12. Bark canoes, of Birch or Elm, were indigenous to the native peoples of the Great Lakes and upper eastern areas. Dugout canoes were also prevalent, but the lightweight bark type was more versatile, especiall…

• Sky Watching

  Oil, 23 x 16. A serene scene of respite. Two Native Americans enjoy a glorious last light provided by the great spirit of a setting sun.

• The Susquehanna Waterway

  Oil, 12 x 18. This is the "First of State" Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission (PFBC) Conserve 2000 stamp print program. Funds raised as part of this program are used for aquatic resource protection, habitat restoration…

• The Fur Trader

  Oil, 28 x 24. In the 18th century, the Iroquois controlled the hunting grounds of western Pennsylvania. They rarely granted a commission for a white (or European) to hunt there. They had learned the value of animal pelt…

• Trifling & Fiddling with the Blue Parrot

  Oil, 12 x 7. Colonial towns of the 18th century mirrored life in Europe. The novelty of exotic birds or animals from South America was enjoyed by many who took advantage of extensive trade.

• The Ancients

  Oil, 30 x 17. Painting Information: This painting, as well as the head study below, will be offered at the 2015 Masters of the American West Show, at the Autry Center in Los Angeles, CA. Please visit the news/shows sect…

• You Can Do It Girl

  Oil, 8 x 11. Frontier life could be hard; women needed to be self-sufficient. This woman alone may have traveled far through a trackless woodland to reach the aid of fortification or a neighbor.

• Nurturing

  Oil, 50 x 42. When Europeans first arrived in North America, they were amazed by the Indigenous People and their culture and how it differed from their own. Children appeared to be indulged and lavished with affection m…

• Dry Moccasins

  Oil, 26 x 38. Somewhere, on some river in the time of the 18th Century, a man has pulled his canoe onto a rock shore. We cannot tell much about him. His flintlock is mostly covered but it might be English. He could be a…

• River Watch

  Oil, 10 x 15

• Not Left Behind

  Oil, 12 x 9

• Right of Way

  Oil, 11 x 15

• Reunited

  Oil, 26 x 30. This painting will be available at the Autry Museum Masters of the American West show, in Los Angeles CA, February 2017. Please see the shows category for more information.

• Freeing the Chain Brake

  Oil, 9 x 12

• Pray for our Boy's Safe Return

  Oil, 13 x 10

• The Dog Handler

  Oil, 13 x 18

• Awaiting the Return

  Oil, 13 x 11

• Horse Thief

  Oil, 12 x 9

• Wilderness Inroads

  Oil, 22 x 42. Part of Indianapolis’ Eiteljorg Museum’s permanent collection, "Wilderness Inroads" astutely captures the allegory of the ever expanding European incursion into North America. While their deep approach int…

• Great Falls of the Passaic

  Oil, 56 x 35. Commissioned painting of the Great Falls of the Passaic (River), in Paterson, New Jersey. This is a National Historical Park, operated by the U.S. National Park Service. The painting won 2nd place in the l…

• Of Light and Shadow

  Oil, 12 x 9

• A Secret Cache

  Oil, 30 x 20. Winner of the 2013 Quest for the West Harrison Eiteljorg Purchase Award and hangs on display at Indianapolis’ Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art.Plunder was as vital a means of support on…

• Brothers of Intent

  Oil, 12 x 9

• High Hopes, Horse Sense

  Oil, 16 x 12

• Seneca Crafted Quillwork

  Oil, 14 x 11. This painting will be available at the Autry Museum's 2016 Masters of the American West show in Los Angeles, CA.“Remembering my ancestors” is the phrase related to me by a Seneca friend of the Iroquois nat…

• New Canoe

  Oil, 12 x 9

• God's Gift

  Oil, Canvas, 36 x 21. God has many gifts but here flows the sweet gift of water, without which a man cannot establish a homestead. On the frontier, lowland was cleared for crops but a cabin might not be as well defended…

• The Agile Bark Canoe

  Oil, Canvas, 40 x 40. In the early days of the Eastern Woodlands, its native people used the many waterways as travel routes. They built canoes of two types: dug-outs, fashioned from hollowing out tree trunks, and the l…

• ANTLER

  Oil, 21 x 18. Painting Information: This painting will be offered at the 2015 History Meets the Arts show, in Gettysburg PA, June 12-14. Please visit the news/shows section for more info on the show.

• The Fording Place

  Oil, 20 x 30. It is summer in the hunting grounds of the Iroquois and this group has chosen to set up their camp on the banks of a stream that feeds into the Allegheny River. Fish and game are plentiful here and life is…

• Canoe in Sight

  Oil, Canvas, 10 x 8

• Winter Windfall

  Oil, Canvas, 22 x 34. A broken and abandoned hay cart and its precious cargo of supplies are discovered by these woodland Indians. The hay cart is not designed for hauling supplies much less a trip down a backwoods stre…

• Little Man

  Oil, Canvas, 8 x 11

• Cute Little Thing

  Oil, 13 x 15. Baby bird and young children, of any time period, present and appealing subject for an artist's brush. So must be the appeal we feel toward a cute little thing—to be cuddled and protected.

• A Daughter's Touch

  Oil, 10 x 8. The 60th Royal American Regiment came to the colonies circa 1755, during the French and Indian War. They learned, through misfortune, fighting here was not conducted according to European standards. Rarely…

• Fatherly Advice

  Oil, 9 x 12. An officer counsels his young drummer and flag bearer. Could they be his own sons? Could he be giving words that might save their lives? The 60th Royal American Regiment came to the colonies circa 1755, dur…

• A Place in the Sun

  Oil, 18 x 24

• A Son's Offering

  Oil, 9 x 13. Native American culture changed drastically as European trade goods became available. Old traditions began to fade. There was less ear mutilation and tattooing and use of natural materials for adornment. Yo…

• And Sometimes the Bear Gets you

  Oil, 14 x 18

• Another Time, Another Snow

  Oil, 9 x 12

• Are We There Yet?

  Oil, 10 x 8

• As a Feather on Water

  Oil, 10 x 16. Since transportation on water was primarily by canoe, the Native Americans were the best of the best. They created versatile canoes that were light to carry and light on the water but able to carry heavy l…

• Too Cold for Wet Dogs

  Oil, 17 x 16. Original painting is currently available. Please contact me for more details if interested.

• Chasing Shadows

  Oil, 22 x 40

• Dogs - Two's Company, Three's a Pup

  Oil, 36 x 38. Original Painting is currently available. Please contact me for more details if interested.

• The Ceremonial Pipe

  Oil, 40 x 42. “Remembering my ancestors” is the phrase spoken to John Buxton by a Seneca friend of the Iroquois nation who made the replica of a calumet, or ceremonial pipe, which is shown in this painting. This contemp…

• UNSEEN

  Oil, 20 x 18. At first glance, you obviously spot the Indian and the bear. Does the Indian know the bear is there? And what about the bear? Look closely, and you'll see the bear is focused on the heron in the top right…

• Congenial Alliance

  Oil, 40 x 24. Original painting is currently available. Please contact me for more details if interested.

• The Uninvited

  Oil, 18 x 36. Winner of the Art Renewal Center 2014/2015 Salon competition Western Art Collector Magazine award.This early frontier scene of a tranquil wilderness waterway, reflects an Eastern Woodland Indian's suspicio…

• Young Dreams

  Oil, 20 x 11. Original painting is currently available. Please contact me for more details if interested.

• The Pelting

  Oil, 9 x 12

• Distant Neighbors

  Oil, 28 x 30. Distant Neighbors represents the early pioneer families who first ventured over and beyond the great Appalachian Mountain chain to develop homesteads and a new life that would someday encompass the entire…