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12 - THE GALLERY April 27, 2012 — Antiques and The Arts Weekly Maxfield Parrish (1870–1966), “Morning,” 1922, oil on panel, 19 5 /8 by 15 inches. Geary Gallery Accent Picture Framing & Restoration Peter Layne Arguimbau Four Gallery Showrooms, Fine Art & Prints, Oil Painting Restoration, Custom Framing, Over 2000 Corner Samples Voted “Best Gallery in Fairfield County” 576 Boston Post Road, Darien, CT • (203) 655-6633 www.gearygallery.com Important Maxfield NEWPORT, R.I. — The National Museum of American Illustration (NMAI) will present a milestone exhibition for the summer season — “Maxfield Parrish: The Retrospective,” debuting Friday, May 25, and on display through September 2. During the season, NMAI is open for general admissions Friday through Sunday between 11 am and 5 pm, with a guided tour year-round on Fridays at 3 pm. NMAI is otherwise open year-round for group tours by reservation. The NMAI holds the world’s largest collection of Maxfield Parrish (1870–1966) original artworks, including his magnum opus “A Florentine Fete,” consisting of 18 murals, each measuring 10 feet 8 inches tall, to his smallest work, a 1½-inch mother-of- pearl piece titled “Tallwood Pearl.” Parrish is one of the most represented artists in the NMAI’s globally renowned American Imagist Collection, featuring works by Norman Rockwell, J.C. Leyendecker, N.C. Wyeth, the Red Rose Girls and 150 other luminaries. Parrish’s career spanned nearly eight decades, with commissions from early book and poster illustrations, to magazine covers (“Morning,” 1922, Life cover), art prints and commercial advertisements such as Hires Root Beer (“Ask for Hires and Get the Genuine,” 1921), and General Electric (“Venetian Lamplighters,” 1924). His widely collected calendar art was published by Brown & Bigelow during the 1930s through Show Debuts May 25 Maxfield Parrish (1870–1966), Villa Isola Bella, Lake Maggiore,” 1904, oil on paper mounted on board, 18 by 28 inches; initialed lower center. A FINE THING: EDWARD T. POLLACK FINE ARTS Will Barnet - Woman Reading - Serigraph 1970 - Edition of 300 SPRING-SUMMER 2012: HIGHLIGHTS FROM OUR COLLECTION On view at our Galleries 29 FOREST AVENUE - PORTLAND, ME. 77 MAINE STREET- DAMARISCOTTA, ME. Tel 207-699-2919 - Cell 617-610-7173 ed@edpollackfinearts.com www.edpollackfinearts.com
Antiques and The Arts Weekly — April 27, 2012 Parrish Exhibition Opens At NMAI the 1950s. This exhibition shows all aspects of this multi-talented illustrator’s career including a rare three-dimensional mixedmedia mailbox, titled “Belles Lettres,” its inaugural exhibition. Maxfield Parrish’s astonishing Florentine Fete murals (1910–1916) were painted for the girls’ dining room at the Curtis Publishing Company in Philadelphia. A monumental part of NMAI’s permanent collection, they appear as if created for Vernon Court. A keen-eyed viewer easily notices Parrish’s favorite model, his mistress Susan Lewin, for she appears 166 times in the murals. Parrish himself appears ten times, while an aunt and neighbor each appear once. Lewin is shown as male and female, albeit with different stances, hairstyles and costumes. Parrish was best known for romantic images with an unmatched richness, captured by his uncanny use of color incorporating ultra-saturated hues and often times an intense cobalt blue. Windsor & Newton Paint Company honored the artist by renaming their radiant cobalt Parrish Blue. His paintings were created in alternating layers of single colors with transparent varnish in between, applied over a monochromatic underpainting. While this technique was superb for period reproductions using early four-color printing (which his technique closely resembled), the resulting luminosity of the originals must be seen in person to be fully appreciated. Everyone marvels at his actual paintings while recognizing that his works are the most reproduced art images in history. In 1922, it was said that one in four American households had a Parrish art print hanging. Due to popular demand, NMAI will continue to exhibit highlights from the incredibly successful Norman Rockwell: American Imagist traveling exhibition, recently acclaimed in England by Paul Johnson as “the best art exhibition in London for 2011.” That exhibition will further tour in September to Alabama’s Birmingham Museum of Art. NMAI will also continue to highlight works from the first museum exhibition of illustrations by author Tom Wolfe, “In Our Time,” comprising works from his book of THE GALLERY — 13 the same title satirizing 1970s American culture. For more information, call 401-851-8949 ext 18 or email art@americanillustration.org. Spring Break Specials! Give Yourself A Break From High Auction Prices. William N. Bartholomew (1822-1898) Oil on Canvas, 18” x 30” John Whorf (1903-1959) Watercolor on Paper, 14” x 21” Stanislas Lepine (1835-1892) Oil on Canvas, 21.5” x 35” We Offer Prices That Others Fear! Call Us Today and Find Out Just How Much We Can Save You on Your Next Art Acquisition! Aldro T. Hibbard (1886-1972) Oil on Board, 20” x 16” Maxfield Parrish (1870–1966), “Venetian Lamplighters,”1922, oil on panel, 28¾ by 18¾ inches; initialed lower right. This is the inaugural exhibition for Parrish’s 1934 “Belle Lettres,” an oil on panel with wooden box assemblage that measures 19 by 13 1 /8 inches. Paul Sample (1896-1974) Oil on Canvas, 20” x 30” Constantine Kluge (1912-2003) Oil on Canvas, 32” x 32” Art &Antique Gallery, Inc. 508.259.4694 508.753.7332 wmunion@charter.net www.artantiquegallery.net www.askart.com/ArtAntiqueGallery
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