Artist: Maxfield Parrish (1870 - 1966)
Nationality: American
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Media: Painting, Illustration
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Biography:
Maxfield Parrish studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Howard Pyle, famous author and illustrator. After Parrish designed the cover of Harper’s Weekly in 1895, his career expanded and he began receiving commissions for posters, illustrations, and advertisements. His fame reached its height when he began producing color prints for the mass market. Works such as Garden of Allah and Dawn sold millions of copies because of the appealing romantic yet classical style. After this style became unfashionable in the 1930’s, Parrish took up landscape painting.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (28)
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Maxfield Parrish From the Story of Snow White oil on panel 1912
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Artist: Maxfield Parrish Title: Dream Castle in the Sky Date: 1908 Medium: oil on canvas
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Artist: Maxfield Parrish Title: Villa Gamberaia, Settignano Date: 1903 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: H.28-1/2
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Maxfield Parrish Poster Show. Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts color lithograph poster 1896
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Maxfield Parrish The Arithmetic Lesson (cover design for Collier's Weekly, Sept. 30, 1911) Oil paint over graphite, pen and ink, on stretched paper 1909
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Maxfield Parrish The Idiot (Cover design for Collier's Weekly, Sept. 24, 1910) oil paint over graphite and ink on paper stretched over wooden frame 1910
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Maxfield Parrish Man with Apple (cover design for Collier's Weekly, April 1, 1911) oil paint over graphite, pen and ink, on stretched paper (figure pasted onto background) 1911
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Maxfield Parrish - Interlude 1922 oil on linen canvas Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Maxfield Parrish - Dream Castle in the Sky 1908 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts American
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Maxfield Parrish - Illustration for "Potpourri" by H.G. Dwight 1905 oil on stretched pap Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Maxfield Parrish - Villa Gamberaia, Settignano 1903 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts American
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Maxfield Parrish - Edison Mazda Lamps (Advertising Sign) after 1921 enamel on metal with Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Stephen Parrish Fishermen's House, Cape Ann ET 49
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Jeannette Maxfield Lewis High Walls Etching 1949
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Stephen Parrish In Port ET 19th century
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Jeannette Maxfield Lewis Paut Aveu etching 1955
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Jeannette Maxfield Lewis Pont Aven Etching 1955
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Stephen Parrish Harbour Scene - Ships at anchor etching, Japan paper 1883
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Spring Profile, Williamina Parrish (United States, 1880 - 1940)  (Artist), circa 1924, Gelatin-silver bromide print
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Stephen Parrish A Winter*s Day, Windsor, N. S., plate at p. 29 in the book, Representative Etchings by Artists of To-day in America (New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1887) etching 1887
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Unidentified artist, American, early 19th century Woman of Parrish-Huguenot Family of Princeton, New Jersey about
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Unidentified artist, American, early 19th century Man of Parrish-Huguenot Family of Princeton, New Jersey about
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Woman’s Jumpsuit, Issey Miyake (Japan, born 1938) , 1976, Rayon and linen
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Possibly by Cassandra-Parrish Workshop Hydria (water jar) South Italian, Campanian; Red Figure; Hydria Greek, South
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Frank J. Van Sloun Group at Table ink and wash circa early 20th century
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Frank J. Van Sloun Nude Model in a Studio drypoint 19th - 20th century
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Frank J. Van Sloun Parents and Child in Bed graphite and brown ink wash circa early 20th century
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Woman’s Dress from ’The Big Knit’ Series, Issey Miyake (Japan, born 1938) , Fall 1974, Knitted silk and wool yarn

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (12)
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Brooklyn Museum of Art: Maxfield Parrish, 1870-1966
Organized chronologically, the exhibition begins with Parrish's work of the late 1890s and early 1900s, years when the young artist developed a unique aesthetic sense for book and magazine illustration as well as for poster and mural design.Ê The ...
Parrish Art Museum: Call for Submissions: Thirty-Sixth Juried Exhibition

The show is open to works in two-and three-dimensions, including painting, sculpture, works on paper including photographs, collage, video art and mixed media. Works should not exceed 60 inches in height, width or depth, and should have been...
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts: Women and Paper
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First Street Gallery: Joseph D'Esposito: Odds and Ends - Recent Work
Joseph D’Esposito's objects are old tools, candy bar wrappings, ink bottles, an electric cord, bronze and gold statues of cherubs, an old telephone and typewriter. D’Esposito’s art immerses viewers into the magic by which paint transforms itself i...
First Street Gallery: Twisted: The Plasticity of Form by Joseph D'Esposito
These plastic figures have a story to tell us. Some of his models are Xena, Hercules, Captain Kirk, and Spock. There are biceps and bulges with super heroic proportions. The background has bright yellow burst and uses naive typography that referen...
Grey Art Gallery, New York University: Rudy Burckhardt and Friends: New York Artists of the 1950s and '60s
The show allows viewers to see how one artist chose to portray another and to view stellar, but rarely exhibited, works by such renowned artists as Josef Albers, Willem ...
Parrish Art Museum: Images of the Spirit: Photographs by Graciela Iturbide, Mexican Folk Masks from the Permanent Collection of El Museo del Barrio, New York
Iturbide's work was influenced by two of the best-known earlier photographers of Mexico: Tina Modotti, recognized as one of the first socially concerned photographers, and Modotti's friend Manuel Alvarez Bravo, who began to photogr...
First Street Gallery: A New Norm - Michele Liebler
Installed in Subculture the portraits collectively communicate an ingrained social narrative. Whether she is working from her figures or from an image bank, the colored pencils, graphite, and charcoal give the pieces slightly eerie presences. The ...
First Street Gallery: Sallie Benton: On Dance
She layers her images, constructing and deconstructing the figures, while leaving a history of the process beneath transparent layers of paint. She juxtaposes drawn and painted figures, crowding them together, while ghost images keep a steady bea...
Philadelphia Museum of Art: Three Museums Join to Present Groundbreaking Survey of Van Gogh's Portraits
Taking this famous passage as a point of departure, The Detroit Institute of Arts, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Philadelphia Museum of Art will present Van...
Carnegie Museum of Art: Masters of American Drawings and Watercolors, Foundations of the Collection, 1904–1922
John W. Beatty, who served as Carnegie Museum of Art’s first director from 1896 to 1922, was the driving force behind the acquisition of nearly 200 drawings and watercolors by an array of prominent American artists of the period. With the end of B...
Jessica Murray Projects: The Prince Project: Dust - by Bonnie Collura and Royale - by Mark Dean Veca
Bonnie Collura embarks on a new series of exhibitions called "The Prince Project." Collura's latest endeavor, comprised of sculptures, drawings and video, begins with the legend of the Golem. According to the story, the Golem is a magical creatu...

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Maxfield Parrish Online
Maxfield Parrish - Art Images - Works and Biography - OCAIW
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Maxfield Parrish Biography
Maxfield Parrish - Artist Painting Prices, Art Appraisal, Artist Paintings [AskART.com]
Beyond the Blue: The Art of Maxfield Parrish

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