DeKalb Area Womens Center displays art work by inner-city art teacher through Aug. 31 Aug 21, 2008
As a kid, I was obsessed with drawing horses and tigers, and spent hours studying and trying to copy works by Howard Pyle, Arthur Rackham, Maxfield Parrish and Edmund Dulac, Weddell said in the release. Then life happened, and although I took a few art classes while attending the University of Iowa in the 70s, I got sucked into retail management and didn t pick up a pencil to draw anything for about 20 years. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
More of this story Jul 26, 2008
My collection of vintage matte white and green Ohio pottery and the 1920s Maxfield Parrish prints we got for a housewarming gift. Dave and I are both from Ohio so the pottery makes me think of growing up in the Midwest. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Sotheby's Announces 2008 First Quarter Results May 9, 2008
Other notable works are by Frederic Remington, Childe Hassam, Maxfield Parrish and Norman Rockwell. The entire sale is estimated to bring $53/77 million. (Primezone Releases)
At the 'Heart' of the revolution Jul 27, 2007
These are a hodgepodge of historical scenes reminiscent of bombastic 19th-century history painting, with added flourishes in the manner of Rockwell Kent and Maxfield Parrish. The exhibition itself adds to the Laguna Art Museum's impressive record for presenting homegrown California popular art. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Masters of American Drawings and Watercolors, Foundations of the Collection, 19041922 Jun 28, 2007
In addition to offering an intimate look at the masterful work of American artists including Winslow Homer, James McNeill Whistler, Frederick Childe Hassam, Cecilia Beaux, John La Farge, Maxfield Parrish, Kenyon Cox, and William James Glackens, the exhibition of 75 drawings and watercolors provides insight into the tastes and major trends in American art during the time that the works were purchased. It also educates viewers on Carnegie Museum of Arts institutional history and the museums... (AbsoluteArts.com)
An insider's look at San Francisco Jun 17, 2007
Maxfield Parrish mural: While sitting on a bar stool at Maxfield's in the historic Palace Hotel, you look up at an artistic masterwork, "The Pied Piper," by Maxfield Parrish. In 1909 the celebrated children's book illustrator painted this 7-by-16-foot canvas of the pied piper, the village youngsters and a mountaintop castle. (Chicago Tribune)
Excelsior makes it Berkey Day Mar 15, 2007
Berkey began his career at Brown and Bigelow in St. Paul, a place also home to Maxfield Parrish, C.M. Russel and Norman Rockwell. Wilcock said he first heard of Berkey as a strange artist who put microphones in his yard and had a collection of nudes. (Minnetonka Lakeshore Weekly News, MN)
UA gallery to feature illustrator Fulvimari Feb 28, 2007
When I think of Akron, I think of Maxfield Parrish,'' he said, recalling his boyhood trips to the Bookseller, where he would rummage through stacks of magazines for Parrish illustrations ... Even when I was in high school my art teacher hated Maxfield Parrish ... They are mostly my memory of what Maxfield Parrish blues were like in his most famous image, Daybreak. (Akron Beacon Journal, OH -- Entertainment)
Eakins' painting to stay in Philly; Wal-Mart heiress loses out Dec 23, 2006
The city's fight to keep Eakins' painting was comparable to a similar _ and successful _ effort in 1998 to keep the "Dream Garden." The glass mosaic designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany and another Philadelphia native, Maxfield Parrish, was sold in 1998 to casino owner Steve Wynn, who planned to move it to Las Vegas. But local historians, artists and the public rose in opposition to moving the 50-foot-wide mural from the lobby of the Curtis Center, the downtown building where it stood since 1916. (NEPA News, PA)
One Family's Passion For Art Dec 11, 2006
Among the artists featured in this stunning sequel are some of the leading American painters from 1880 to 1950, among them John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam, Thomas Hart Benton, Maxfield Parrish, Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper, as well as a group of European Impressionists whose works all but define the movement - Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Gauguin, Berthe Morisot and Edgar Hillaire-Germain Degas. "Five years ago," writes New Britain museum director Douglas Hyland... (CTNow.com)
Arts groups grapple for ways to save scattered, valuable works Nov 19, 2006
Several groups did step in two years later to save "Dream Garden," an enormous glass mosaic by Louis Comfort Tiffany and Maxfield Parrish. It was sold for more than $5 million in 1998 to casino owner Steve Wynn, who planned to remove it from the lobby where it stood since 1916 and bring it to Las Vegas. (NEPA News, PA)
Dancing Fool: Nov 17, 2006
The original version shows MJ as a near-naked angel with wings, and everything's based on Maxfield Parrish paintings for some reason. (I think of that whole period as a public breakdown. (Slate)
Clock ticking to save 'The Gross Clinic' Nov 15, 2006
"Dream Garden," a luminous glass mosaic designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany and another Philadelphia native, Maxfield Parrish, was sold in 1998 to casino owner. Steve Wynn. (Yahoo News -- Art and Museums)
Science: Telescope maker's drawings a look into past Oct 16, 2006
The American artist Maxfield Parrish, a contemporary of Porter's who was a meticulous craftsman, called the collection a work of art, exact and lifelike. I doubt if there are drawings anywhere which can in any way compare with these for perfection in showing what a stupendous piece of machinery is going to look like when finished. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Easton resident shares moveable inspiration Oct 13, 2006
"If we were involved in a unit on art, I brought in my M.C. Escher, Maxfield Parrish and Norman Rockwell pop-ups," she said. "Mythology, architecture and storytelling likewise provided a chance to share my collection.". (Easton Courier, CT)
Dreaming in paint Oct 11, 2006
"Confident girls modeled on Maxfield Parrish are my everyman," he said. "In homophobic America, putting men in togas in the willows might cause offense or just look silly.". (Durango Herald)
"Daybreak" sale finances home for Maxfield Parrish collection Jun 3, 2006
-- It's now even more relevant that a Vermont art exhibit featuring Maxfield Parrish is called "Coming Home." ... "This is an especially apropos title, `Coming Home,' for this particular exhibit because Maxfield Parrish will allow the Cornish Colony Museum to have a home at last, a permanent home," said curator and museum director Alma Gilbert-Smith ... "What it says to me ... is that American collectors are recognizing Maxfield Parrish as important as an artist and putting in an appropriate... (WCAX.com, VT)
Between the Lines: Places to see before you die May 25, 2006
For instance, the seven-page spread on an ice-cap trek in Patagonia, Argentina, features 12 spectacular shots, some of which could be paintings by artist Maxfield Parrish. The eight-page chapter on a trek along the Gibb River Road in Kimberley, Australia, shows the terrain in 13 telling photos, while the eight pages devoted to cruising the Canal du Midi in France include 21 vibrant images. (Sacramento Bee -- Lifestyle)
