Maxfield Parrish
1870-1966
"Snowbound"
1899
Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, some conté crayon, over preliminary drawing in pencil, on paper.
Design area: 11 x 7 inches (279 x 178 mm); full sheet: 14 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches (372 x 246 mm)
Gift of Mr. John Fleming.
© Maxfield Parrish / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
1975.30:2
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Watermark: none.
Preparatory design for Kenneth Grahame, "The Golden Age," London and New York, 1900, 120.
Inscription:
Signed by the artist with initials at lower left, "M.P."; inscribed in pencil at lower margin, "'Snowbound' - 'By yester-eve and the mummers were here!'"; inscribed in pencil on verso, "No. 225. / Maxfield Parrish / 'The Oaks' / Windsor: Vermont. - / June of 1899".
Provenance:
John Fleming.
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