Ross Paxton (February 3, 1931 - June 14, 2003) was a prominent gay Artist in New York City in the 1980s & 1990s.
Ross Elwyn Paxton was born on 3 February 1931, in La Grande, Union, Oregon, the son of Charles Alfred Paxton and Jennie Belle Tracy. He lived in Elgin and Union, Oregon, in the 1940s. He later moved to Edgewater, NJ and was a natural artist working for the YCNR Art Agency in New York. Some of his accounts included the Cotton Campaign, Vogue patterns and Estee Lauder. Listed in "Extended Sensibilities: Homosexual Presence in Contemporary Art" at The New Museum.
He died on 14 June 2004, in Edgewater, Bergen, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 73.
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