Exhibitions Montgomery. Fantasies and Fairy Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print. The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts

Ectasy," 1930, Calendart 38 3/4" x 18", Heritage Auctions

"Sing a Song of Sixpence," 1910, Lithography, 8 1/2" x 20 3/4", Heritage Auctions 

Lantern Bearers-"The Lantern Bearers," 1910, Lithograph, 11 1/2" x 8 3/4", Heritage Auctions 

"Florentine Fete," 1916, Lithograph, 8 3/4" x 14 3/4", Heritage Auctions

"The Lute Players," 1922, Lithograph, 17 1/2" x 29 1/2", Heritage Auctions

   "Old King Cole," 1911, Hand colored lithograph, 10" x 40", Heritage Auctions

Fantasies and Fairy Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print

October 28-January 9, 2010

Maxfield Parrish was one of the early 20th century’s most popular and well-known artists. He trained as an illustrator with famed illustrator/teacher Howard Pyle, and soon his distinctive compositions were being reproduced as illustrations and advertisements. Committed to the popularization of American art, his works were both inherently beautiful and inspiring to millions.

In many cases Parrish’s original paintings were a direct result of his commercial enterprises. Before abandoning figurative work in the 1950s, Parrish undertook hundreds of commissions for book illustrations, magazine covers, advertisements and lithographs that reveal both his sense of humor and his eye for graphic design. Taking advantage of the refinements of color processing that allowed for meticulously detailed and brilliantly illuminated mass reproductions, the works Parrish created for translation into lithographs would become some of his most popular and enduring imagery.

“Fantasies and Fairy Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print” is organized by the Trust for Museum Exhibitions, Washington, DC and International Arts, Memphis, TN, and sponsored in Montgomery by Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama, LLC and Mr. and Mrs. Ted W. Giles.

For more information please visit: The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts

 

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[La Vaye Samek]

I have what appears to be an original Maxfield Parrish print of "Sing a Song of Sixpence" Inherited from my paternal grandparents and I think they had it in their farmhouse in the 1920's. looks like an original frame and there is a newsprint description of the print on the back of it. I do not see this print offered for sale and am interested in its worth. How do I find out the value?