Exhibition Available May 2009 - February 2011

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

While recent exhibitions of Parrish have focused mainly on his original oil paintings, Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print represents the first comprehensive sampling of Parrish's work in a variety of printed media. Magazines such as Life, Collier's, and the Ladies Home Journal frequently commissioned Parrish for cover designs throughout the 1910s and 1920s. Beginning with Frank L. Baum's Mother Goose in Prose of 1897, Parrish made several important contributions to the Golden Age of Illustration, including work for books such as The Arabian Nights and The Knave of Hearts, both included in this exhibition. Parrish's whimiscal designs were also a favorite of early twentieth-century advertisers and often incorportated plays on popular fairy-tales and nursery rhymes, as in the series of designs marketing Ferry's Seeds and Swift's Premium Ham. Also included in this exhibition is a full set of the calendars Parrish designed to promote General Electric's Edison Mazda Lamps, and many of the lithographs commissioned by the House of Art for the expressed purpose of lithographic reproduction.

Itinerary

8-week venues

Crocker Art Museum - Sacramento, CA
May 8 - July 17, 2009
Venue 1

Wichita Art Museum - Wichita, KS
July 30 - October 11, 2009
Venue 2

Delaware Art Museum - Wilmington, DE
October 29, 2009 - January 10, 2010
Venue 3

R.W. Norton Art Gallery - Shreveport, LA
January 28 - April 11, 2010
Venue 4

Everson Museum of Art - Syracuse, NY
April 29 - July 11, 2010
Venue 5

Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art- Fresno, CA
July 29 - October 10, 2010
Venue 6

Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts - Montgomery, AL
October 28, 2010 - January 9, 2011
Venue 7

Available
January 27th, 2011- March 27th, 2011
Venue 8

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