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Artist: Maxfield Parrish
The Oaks
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Mixed Media on Board
Sight Size 21.50" x 14.50", Framed 26.00" x 19.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Illustration for the "Exhibition of the American Water Color Society."
Category
1890s Maxfield Parrish Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
HARPER'S WEEKLY - BICYLCE NUMBER
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in Portland, ME
Parrish, Maxfield. HARPER'S WEEKLY - BICYLCE NUMBER. Vol XL, April 4, 1896. 16 x 12 inches. With front and back covers by Parrish, and an ad by Will Bradley for Victor Bicycles on th...
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1890s Art Nouveau Maxfield Parrish Art
Materials
Offset
THE KNAVE OF HEARTS
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in Portland, ME
Parrish, Maxfield. THE KNAVE OF HEARTS. 1925. 14 full page and many smaller color plates. A Fine copy of Parrish's most elaborate book. A highlight among American children's books, b...
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1920s Maxfield Parrish Art
Materials
Offset
Water Let in on a Field of Alfalfa
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed with initials M.P. (lower right); inscribed Article III. "Irrigation" water let in on a field of alfalfa (in the lower margin)
Written on back "February of 1902. Hot Springs,...
Category
Early 1900s Maxfield Parrish Art
Materials
Oil
The Century, Maxfield Parrish
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in New York, NY
This image - created as an advertisement for the magazine "The Century" - is an original lithograph by Maxfield Parrish printed in 1897 measuring 15 ¾ x 11 3/8 in (40 x 29 cm), unfr...
Category
Late 19th Century Maxfield Parrish Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Rawhide Part III
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Paper Mounted to Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right, Signed Again and Dated August of 1904 on Reverse
The Rawhide Part III, 'He swung himself into the saddle and rode away.'
Signed with initials M·P...
Category
Early 1900s Maxfield Parrish Art
Materials
Paper, Oil, Board
Sketch for Fisk Tires - Fit for a King
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Paperboard
Signature: Signed and Inscribed, Signed Maxfield Parrish and inscribed A gift to his son / Maxfield Parrish Jr. / June 1939 on the reverse
Sight Size 3.50" ...
Category
1930s Maxfield Parrish Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Harper's Monthly Magazine Cover
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil and Ink on Paper
Signature: Unsigned
Sight Size 13.75" x 9.50"; Framed: 17.25" x 13.25"
Harper's Monthly Magazine Cover, September 1900
Notes on Verso: "Nelson: Art Dept. Harper's Magazine: Pay Maxfield Parrish $50 for design. Also use Christmas Magazine...
Category
Early 1900s Maxfield Parrish Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Oil
Original Illustration for The Red Cross
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Each Upper Panel, Signed 'Maxfield Parrish/Windsor./Vermont.' (On the Reverse); Each Lower Panel, Signed 'Maxfield Parrish' (Lower Right) Each
1 of a...
Category
1910s Maxfield Parrish Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Original Illustration for Red Cross Advertisement
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed on Reverse
1 of a 4 part Illustration, Used as Promotional Poster
Exhibited:
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, Maxfield Pa...
Category
1910s Maxfield Parrish Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Christmas Cover Design for Life Magazine
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil, Ink and Gold Leaf on Paper
Dimensions: 15.00" x 12.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Center
The present work was published as the cover of the December 2nd, 1899 issue of Lif...
Category
Early 20th Century Maxfield Parrish Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
Virgil at Arms
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
Early 1900s Maxfield Parrish Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ivanhoe
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Mixed Media on Board
Signature: Signed on Verso
Contact for dimensions.
Maxfield Parrish created the present work as a playbill to commemorate a performance of Ivanhoe, whi...
Category
20th Century Maxfield Parrish Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
La Palazzina (Villa Gori), Siena
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Paper
Category
Early 1900s Maxfield Parrish Art
Materials
Oil, Paper
Mask and Wig
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Wood Panel
Signature: Signed ‘Parrish’ (On the Reverse)
Finished painting done as a prototype for the mural at the University of Pennsylvania
LITERATURE
L.S. Cutler ...
Category
1890s Maxfield Parrish Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
A Dark Futurist
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Paper Laid on Panel
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Initialed lower right: M.P.
Signed on the reverse: Maxfield Parish
Initialed and numbered by the artist's son on the reverse: M.P. Jr. / No. 68.
When Maxfield Parrish painted the comical A Dark Futurist in 1923 for Life magazine, he had already established himself as America's leading book and magazine illustrator. His early artwork for children's classics like L. Frank Baum's Mother Goose in Prose (1897), Kenneth Grahame's Dream Days (1900), and Eugene Field's Poems of Childhood (1904) popularized his signature atmospheric settings, cobalt blue-and-gold palette, and dreamy figures inhabiting magical worlds. Likewise, his covers for Century, Collier's, Harper's Bazaar, Ladies' Home Journal, Life, and Scribner's Magazine were highly desirous and instantly recognizable, often more stylized than his book imagery; no other journal illustrator could match Parrish's winning combination of precise draftsmanship, strong graphic design, and amusing characters.
According to David Apatoff, Art Critic, The Saturday Evening Post, "Parrish abandoned his customary heavy details and rainbow colors to present a bolder, more high-contrast design silhouetted against a stark white background - a treatment more suitable for a modern magazine cover vying for attention on a crowded newsstand.
A Dark Futurist is silhouetted against a white field with no background or details to prop it up. The composition is carefully centered with only differences in the hands and the artist's necktie to break the symmetry. These are crucial to the success of the design.
Just as important as Parrish's clean, high-contrast style in these pictures is the refreshing humor and sophistication in content, which is usually absent from Parrish's fairytale paintings.
A Dark Futurist shows us a different kind of modernism. Parrish steps out of his timeless fairy tales to tweak one of the most incendiary artistic movements of his day. Futurism, with its militant manifesto and its outspoken artists, was all the rage in Europe. Parrish pokes them, showing a "dark" and anxious futurist with pursed lips and thick glasses, poised to paint but not exactly sure of, or optimistic about, what the 'future' will hold. This suggests that Parrish was alert to, and had opinions about, current events of the day - something one might never guess from his usual subject matter."
In his early Collier's illustrations, Parrish also developed memorable themes that he would return to in his 1920s magazine work. One of his most popular characters was the "seer," or man with keen visual powers, most often depicted as an artist, but also appearing as a tourist, scientist, and philosopher. Parrish's seer was recognizable by particular physical attributes: round glasses, indicating his visual and analytical acuity, and an overcoat and/or hat signifying his role as observer of the outside world.
A Man of Letters, sold last year at Heritage Auctions, was one of the first Life covers Parrish rolled out for Gibson, and he repeated the character of the artist-seer, emphasizing the comic spin, for two later editions: A Dark Futurist (Life, March 1, 1923) captures a Parrish-like artist in foggy round glasses and a long green coat...
Category
1920s Maxfield Parrish Art
Materials
Paper, Oil, Panel
The Knave of Hearts: List of Characters
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed
Sight Size 20.13" x 16.38", Framed 26.00" x 23.00"
Maxfield Parrish’s popularity as an illustrator began with his early work for magazine publishers. An Easter 1895 cover for Harper’s Bazaar, one of the leading publications of the day, was followed by a successful foray into book illustration beginning in 1897 when Parrish completed illustrations for Frank Baum’s Mother Goose in Prose. His unique style and vivid imagination were well suited to illustrating children’s literature and resulted in numerous commissions. The List of Characters is one of 26 paintings, which appeared as an illustration in Louise Saunders' book, The Knave of Hearts. Lawrence S. Cutler and Judy Goffman Cutler write, “The last book Parrish illustrated, The Knave of Hearts (1924), was his masterpiece. When Parrish discovered this children’s play, he proposed an illustrated edition to Scribner’s, to which the publisher enthusiastically agreed …It was written by Louise Saunders, who was the wife of Maxwell Evarts Perkins of Scribner’s, an important editor in the 20th century and discoverer of authors Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others. The couple were summer residents at Cornish and close friends of the Parrishes” (Maxfield Parrish and the American Imagists, Edison, New Jersey, 2004, p. 172). According to Coy Ludwig, “The artist’s enthusiasm was shared by the publisher, who requested sketches or more precise information upon which to base a cost analysis, as final approval could not be given until the costs were estimated. Parrish prepared an elaborate dummy or mock-up of the proposed publication, complete with watercolor sketches of the illustrations, and sent it to the publisher early in 1921 …The twenty-six paintings for The Knave of Heartswere executed within three years, and the book, a sumptuous production, was published on October 2, 1925… The volume, selling for ten dollars, was packaged in a telescoping box...
Category
1920s Maxfield Parrish Art
Materials
Board, Oil
Ask for Hires and Get the Genuine
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Paper Laid to Board
Signature: Signed with the Artists Initials M.P Lower Center
Coy Ludwig, Maxfield Parrish, New York, 1973, plate 35, p. 133, illustrated in color
Category
1920s Maxfield Parrish Art
Materials
Paper, Oil, Board
My Duty Towards my Neighbor, and My Duty Towards God (diptych)
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Panel
Signature:Signed & Dated Lower Right, ii: Signed & Dated Lower Left
Literature:
Coy Ludwig, Maxfield Parrish, New York, 1973, p. 153, nos. 194-95, illustrated...
Category
1890s Maxfield Parrish Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Original Illustration for The Red Cross Advertisement
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
1 of a 4 part illustration used as a promotional poster
Exhibited:
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, Maxfield ...
Category
20th Century Maxfield Parrish Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Original Illustration for The Red Cross
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
19.875" x 14.00" Each Panel
1 of a 4 Part Illustration used as a promotional poster
Poster for The Red Cross—Watching...
Category
1910s Maxfield Parrish Art
Materials
Oil, Board
New Hampshire Hills
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1932
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 23.00" x 18.63"
Signature: inscribed MP Jr. No. 76. / Painted by Maxfield Parrish / Maxfield Parrish
In the present painting, Maxfield Pa...
Category
1930s Maxfield Parrish Art
Materials
Board, Oil
Prometheus
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Panel
Sight Size 31.00" x 21.25", Framed 36.00" x 22.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Maxfield Parrish began his career at age 25 as an illustrator, painting magazin...
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1910s Maxfield Parrish Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
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