
Property from a Private New England Collection
The Lone Fisherman
Auction Closed
November 19, 11:13 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private New England Collection
Maxfield Parrish
1870 - 1966
The Lone Fisherman
signed Maxfield Parrish, dedicated To Austin M. Purves and dated 1909 (lower center); signed Maxfield Parrish, dated January of 1909 and inscribed Windsor: Vermont (on the original backing board)
oil and pencil on paper
22 by 16 ¼ in.
55.9 by 41.3 cm.
Executed in January 1909.
Austin M. and Betsy P. C. Purves, Philadelphia (acquired directly from the artist in 1909)
Vose Galleries, Boston
Mr. and Mrs. Edward E. White, Mamaroneck, New York (acquired from the above in 1972)
Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner
Vermont, Bennington College; New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Maxfield Parrish, 1964, no. 23, n.p. (titled Fisherman)
Springfield, Massachusetts, George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Maxfield Parrish: A Retrospect, 1966, no. 13, n.p. (titled Fisherman)
Boston, Vose Galleries, Maxfield Parrish: An Exhibition of Original Oil Paintings by One of America’s Most Popular Artists, 1968, no. 15, n.p. (titled Fisherman)
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, Maxfield Parrish: Master of Make-Believe, 1974, no. 39, p. 27
Collier’s Magazine, vol. 43, no. 4, 17 April 1909, illustrated on the cover
Coy Ludwig, Maxfield Parrish, New York, 1973, no. 493, p. 209
Marian S. Sweeney, Maxfield Parrish Prints: A Collector's Guide, Dublin, New Hampshire, 1974, p. 65
American Art Review, vol. 3, March—April 1976, pp. 85 and 89, illustrated in color
Brandywine River Museum, ed., Catalogue of the Collection, 1969-1989, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, 1991, p. 121
Laurence S. Cutler and Judy Goffman Cutler, Maxfield Parrish and the American Imagists, Newport, 2004, p. 153, illustration in color (Collier’s cover)
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