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Maxfield Frederick Parrish ( New Hampshire, 1870 - 1966) Ink/Paper of a young girl Reading. Provenance: Alma Gilbert & Peter Smith, NH. Unsigned. Owners of Maxfield Parrish House and author of books on Maxfield Parrish. Sight size: 12 x 9 inches. The son of the Philadelphia etcher and landscape painter Stephen Parrish, Maxfield Parrish was educated at Haverford College, 1888-91. He studied art at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts and was the pupil of Howard Pyle at Drexel Institute, Philadelphia. Early in his career, he had typhoid fever, requiring recuperation away from the East. First, he went to Saranac in the Adirondacks where the winter forced him to give up his water-base inks in favor of oils. Second, he went to sunny Arizona where he was influenced as a colorist. He painted Southwestern landscapes in a style already distinctive in his 1902 illustrations for Century. Third, he went to Italy. Recovered physically, he settled in Windsor, Vermont.Parrish was best known as an illustrator for children's books and magazines. Image Size: 12 x 9 in. Overall Size: 21 x 18 in. This item is framed behind glass.
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Maxfield Frederick Parrish (1870 - 1966) Ink
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