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Pat Norum

I have a Maxfield Parrish print in mint condition titled: DREAMING Can you tell me if it's worth anything?

janiewc

I was extremely lucky to be in New York City mid July of 2000 at a Macintosh computer conference during the Parrish show at the Brooklyn Art Museum. On our one day sightseeing before taking the train back to Chicago we negotiated the subway to Brooklyn, where we had never been before, and luxuriated all day in the plethora of original paintings from the beginning to end of Parrish's long career. Kitschy...sometimes; commercial...definitely; but as a fellow illustrator I truly appreciate his style and detail under deadline pressures. Did he borrow? You bet. So do I and so does any illustrator using historicism to sell. Is it a fault? No! As I have often said "What we make maybe great art, but what we do is great commerce." It helps to remember the context under which he worked. I do know, however, that on that one day, the last time I was in New York, his life's work made a lasting impression on a lady from Rockford, IL (where? wedged 11 miles under Wisconsin in the center at the top of the state of Illinois). Thanks for this lovely site/blog and your sometimes pithy comments. Have a great one!

Bettsi

Hello! I just found your blog via another titled Lines and Colors. What a feast for the eyes you have created here! I think I'll be busy for a long time, absorbing everything you have shared. I just bought a print of Sunlit Valley by Parrish because the colors and view remind me of my homeland in California. Do you know if Parrish spent any time in California? Thanks for a really great blog.

Ilene

Looking where I can purchase a print of Maxfield Parrish painting... Title is something like "Winter 1909." Has a picture of a man walkig through snow. Please help.

giam

Gee, abner, I'm sorry I don't love everything Max Parrish ever did, but it's my blog and I get to say what I think however petty, and as insecure as I may seem to you.

c. abner

I find your comments about Maxfield Parrish degrading and petty. All artists draw from other prior works and I can't fathom how you can fault him for being inspired and drawing from other artists. This just shows your own insecurities as an artist. I personally, like to point out the artists to whom I owe my inspiration in a favourable manor.

Mary

Looking for name of Maxfield Parrish painting - reminds me of "daybreak - arab man on right sitting by a tree and pile of rocks reading to arab woman on left - snowcovered mountains in background - I am researching a print I was given

Joshua

i am looking for a name of a print buy parrish it ha a white path leading up to a flower garden looking out to a lkae and some moutnains i see sea gull in the sky there is a white pillard stucture on the right anda birck on the left


any idea s what it may be called

Mariana

Hi!

I just wanted to say that I love old children's books illustrations, and that I was delighted to find your sight. Very beautiful and interesting! :)

Bie!

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