Books, Movies, Music & Entertainment - Any Maxfield Parrish fans/experts here?

I just picked up this print at auction last night. Unsigned, but has a definite Parrish flavor to it, but I'm unsure. I know some his early work was in black & white, but was unable to find any reference to this piece on the net.

It's framed and measures 4 5/8" X 15 3/4" at the inside of the frame. It looks SOOOOO nice with my other two Parrish works. :)

I believe I've seen it before. Maybe a sketch for a painting that was printed.

His name is Parrish not Parris. One of my favorite painters.

http://www.hollandarts.com/MAXFIELD_PARRISH.HTM some nice old stuff in frames.

Yeah, thanks for pointing that out Jeff... (note to self clean that recalcitrant " " key!) Umm, can I get a MOD here to fix the title, please?

Hands down, Parrish is my favourite. A lot of people in this area like Icart & Nutting, but they're just too subdued for me.

I like the Sapphist? thing he has going, Da Vinci was good but he was always painting guys.
It's the mood and the really dark tones I like, a really good painter of light\shade.

http://parrish.artpassions.net/parrish.html this site has works by other illustrators as well?
http://www.datadesignsb.com/ Nice.

This is one of my favorites 'cause like HALF of the canvas is the purple, daring.
Not his best, but a really unusual weight\color and space usage.

I'm thinking now that it might be a part of a larger scene in paint.
If you have something like lithography or plate printing, it might be a real score.

I'm thinking now that it might be a part of a larger scene in paint.
If you have something like lithography or plate printing, it might be a real score.


That was my thoughts as well as those of a friend at the auction... maybe part of a tryptich or something. When you hold the print at an angle to the light the black ink takes on this metallic quality similar to the blacks in an old tintype photograph.

I need to take it apart, get the chunks of ugly out, clean the glass, and reset it before it's hung.

Go see an art dealer, chatty fun. The ink -if on a flat\matte paper to me -suggests printing, not poster.
Super nice print Stacey, bet it will look sweet in your collection.
I'd like to more have a house that looked like a Parrish painting, the pools and gardens.
Marble statuary to walk around in the moonlight.
I love the romantic period he covered, pretty class, and a later American, no?

Interesting to me anyway, the psycedelic poster art 66-7 was inspired by a Berkeley San-Fran exposition of the Art Nouveau poster art (not sure what major galleries are there), and you can really see the influence.

Hippies on acid grooving Klimt. Cool.

Wow, I took it apart to clean everything and look what I found! :D
Would you believe I got it for 5 bucks!?!?!

Had to color shift things to get good contrast to make out the date. I see 1911. You?

Ooooh, way to go Stacey, be careful and let us know what it appraises at. Very cool.

Congrats you found a winner

But have it appraised by a pro
If you ever are in San Francisco go the bar/lounge in the lobby of the Palace hotel for a mural he painted there years ago.

I picked up 3 Icarts years ago at a garage sale for a couple dollars each.Thought they were cheap reprints, but they were numbered from the originals plates.

One trash collection day I saw a print sticking out of a trash can, stopped, unrolled it and found a 1937 large print of the French liner Normandie, considered it my primo find until I saw 2 Barcelona chairs, mint condition at the side of the road, something I always lusted for,asked the lady how much she wanted for them both, and she said "well offer me something for them they were my late husbands and I thought they were awful and wouldn't let him put them in the living room because I couldn't get out of the damned things." Before I could say anything she said . "oh how about 25$ for them both , if you get them out of here now"

Love to prowl the streets here on collection/discard days


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Stacy,

Nice find. . .
I'm partial to black and white prints (due to being colour challanged?).
Now, go get it appraised.

Enjoy.

Marty

oh yeah, fixed title of thread

In a book I have Maxfield Parrish by Coy Ludwig, the piece you have looks like a panel from one of 18 panels done for a girls' dining room, Curtis Publishing Co. in 1911. The orginals were oil on canvas 10' 8 1/2" by 3' 5". I scanned in the only 2 panels (sorry about the pattern and res--I'm at home) in the book so you can see the similarities to you piece. There is about a page on the work (starting page 163, ill. on 157). If you want, I can try to scanned the text for you. I highly recommend this book if you can find it.

Stacy,

Nice find. . .
I'm partial to black and white prints (due to being colour challanged?).
Now, go get it appraised.

Enjoy.

Marty

oh yeah, fixed title of thread


Thanks Marty... Twice. You're a sweetheart!

In a book I have Maxfield Parrish by Coy Ludwig, the piece you have looks like a panel from one of 18 panels done for a girls' dining room, Curtis Publishing Co. in 1911. The orginals were oil on canvas 10' 8 1/2" by 3' 5". I scanned in the only 2 panels (sorry about the pattern and res--I'm at home) in the book so you can see the similarities to you piece. There is about a page on the work (starting page 163, ill. on 157). If you want, I can try to scanned the text for you. I highly recommend this book if you can find it.


Thanks so much Map Tester! Not only confirmation but provenance too! If you could scan or type out the text that would be super. There's marked on the back in pencil, "A Ball to Joy" is there any relevance?

Congrats you found a winner

But have it appraised by a pro
If you ever are in San Francisco go the bar/lounge in the lobby of the Palace hotel for a mural he painted there years ago.

I picked up 3 Icarts years ago at a garage sale for a couple dollars each.Thought they were cheap reprints, but they were numbered from the originals plates.

One trash collection day I saw a print sticking out of a trash can, stopped, unrolled it and found a 1937 large print of the French liner Normandie, considered it my primo find until I saw 2 Barcelona chairs, mint condition at the side of the road, something I always lusted for,asked the lady how much she wanted for them both, and she said "well offer me something for them they were my late husbands and I thought they were awful and wouldn't let him put them in the living room because I couldn't get out of the damned things." Before I could say anything she said . "oh how about 25$ for them both , if you get them out of here now"

Love to prowl the streets here on collection/discard days


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Amazing the things you find, if only you look. One's trash is another's treasure. :D

Stacy,

Nice find. . .
I'm partial to black and white prints (due to being colour challanged?).
Now, go get it appraised.

Enjoy.

Marty

oh yeah, fixed title of thread

M.C. Escher puts me in trance !
I can stare for hours........
Same with Crumb and the other 60's SanFran counterculture artists....Yeah, B&W does it for me too :D

Stacy, are you going to the Dali exibit in Philly?

I've got Escher's dragon (colorized) as my wallpaper! :D Love his work. Also fond of Ansel Adams photographs!

Wasn't planning to see the Dali exhibit, doublenonplused

From the Ludwig book, in the Catalog of Selected Works, p217:

Curtus Publishing Company, Philadelphia
Parrish was commissioned in 1911 to paint a series of eighteen murals for the girls' dining room at the new headquarters of Curtis Pub. Co. in Philadelphia. The works, each more than 10 feet tall, were not titled by the artist, but were titled by Curtis for copyright purposes.

The 5th panel was titled A Call to Joy. Perhaps this is what you have?

It seems that reproductions of these panels were distributed as prints.

I have a pdf of the text about the murals, but it too big to post here. I'll try something tomorrow (monday) at the office and pm you with the info.

Yes, yes... EXACTLY! I must have read the 'c' as a 'b'.

There was a stamped imprit on the back, very light, small and difficult to read that said something to the effect of... This print is property (illegible) (what could be "Curtis") (illegible) promotional dept.


Thanks to all for your help in discovering the story behind this piece! :love:

Now, to get it appraised.