Synopsis
Luminous landscapes. Stunning scenery. Courageous colors. All this and more describes the amazing body of work by one of America’s most popular artists, Maxfield Parrish. Now in its third edition with updated pricing, ownership, and trends, The Masterworks stands as the authoritative collection of Parrish’s best works. Compiled by longtime Parrish expert and curator Alma Gilbert, The Masterworks brings together the most popular, most important, and most fanciful of Parrish’s paintings. Here you’ll find the glorious Dinkey Bird, the extensive Florentine Fête murals, the amazing Interlude, and the sublime Daybreak. Also included are some of Parrish’s lesser-known works, through which we see the development of the artist’s style and technique. Through historical analysis, contemporary news clippings, and letters from the artist himself, we get to know Parrish the man, discovering the genius behind the artwork. Updated with all the current Parrish information, this new edition of The Masterworks continues the grand tradition of celebrating Parrish’s work, and bringing his oeuvre to the public.
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About the Author
Alma Gilbert has been dealing in Maxfield Parrish originals since 1974 and was founder and director of the Maxfield Parrish Museum for eight years. As collector, dealer, and curator, Gilbert has seen most of the original Parrish works pass through her hands, and has owned many, if only briefly. She lives on Parrish’s Plainfield, New Hampshire, estate, The Oaks, where she can study the surroundings that inspired him. Ms. Gilbert currently runs the Cornish Colony Gallery and Museum, a nonprofit foundation that features extensive yearly exhibits of Parrish and other major local artists.
From Publishers Weekly
The calendar art of Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966) and his covers for Collier's , Ladies' Home Journal and other magazines in the early decades of the century look increasingly campy now. Featuring 145 color plates and 30 photographs, this snazzy showcase of Parrish's art will please fans and collectors. Gilbert, founder and director of the Maxfield Parrish Museum in Plainfield, N.H., admires the ambitious scope of Parrish's murals Florentine Fete and The Pied Piper, the dazzling tonalities of his book illustrations, the magical flavor of his children's pictures, and the dignity and beauty of his paintings of the American Southwest. Also reproduced are prints, landscapes, ads and paintings of New England farms and houses. Gilbert devotes a chapter to Parrish's technique, reprints several of his witty letters and discusses his extramarital affair with live-in companion and model Susan Lewin.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. Second edition. Unlike many other books that seem to try to sneak their edition number under the radar, this one proclaims it up front, as part of its title: "Maxfield Parrish: The MasterworksSecond Edition," by Alma Gilbert. [Note: Gilbert's name appears in slightly different form on the copyright page and in catalog entries than it does on the cover of this bookAlma M. Gilbert and Alma Gilbert-Smith, for example.] That could be because the difference between the second and first editions is so distinct, to the tune of 24 more pages in this 1995 edition than in the 1992 version and with a short chapter at the end of the book detailing the differences in the illustrations. Indeed, color illustrations is what this book is all about. Though it is not of a particular exhibition, it is essentially a catalog, much like an exhibition catalog, of Parrish's best, and best-known works. There is a short biographical essay at the beginning, another essay at the end about how his work has been evaluated since his death, and there are some black and white pictures interspersed throughout, but primarily the plates are reproduced in the vivid color for which Parrish is so well known, with captions and explanatory text of greater and longer length. Parrish started studying art as a teenager and he only stopped painting, at least as a hobbyist, a few years before his death at 95. In between, he mostly made his living as a commercial illustrator of everything from calendars to murals, so there is no way Gilbert could include all of the estimated 900 of his works that have been recorded so far into this book. Instead, she has sorted out her 200+ plates into into chapters with titles such as "The Magazine Work" and "The Murals." (That chapter, by the way, has a four-page fold-out plate.) Gilbert, a curator and dealer specializing in Parrish, weaves an essay about each topic through the pictures as well as providing information about the individual images. Our copy of this book is essentially new, with only a small penciled-in note on the half-title page causing us to list it as "Fine." Otherwise, there are no other marks or other flaws to the pages and the binding is similarly unmarred. The text block is tight and square. The dust jacket is Near Fine, with some light shelf wear on the front and back and some slight curling along the top edge. Photos forthcoming or immediately on request. Seller Inventory # 536
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