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Property from a Private New England Collection

Maxfield Parrish

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)