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Property from a Distinguished American Collection

Maxfield Parrish

Little Brook Farm (Sunup)

Session begins in

17:30:05

May 16, 02:00 PM GMT

Estimate

1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD

Bid

1,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished American Collection

Maxfield Parrish

1870 - 1966


Little Brook Farm (Sunup)

signed Maxfield Parrish and dated 1942 (lower right); signed Maxfield Parrish, titled and dated 1942 (on the reverse)

oil on panel

22 ⅞ by 18 ⅝ in.

58.1 by 47.3 cm.

Executed in 1942.

Ralph A. Powers, Montville, Connecticut (acquired directly from the artist by 1965)

American Illustrators Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in 2016 by the present owner

Brown & Bigelow Publishing Company, Summer Calendar, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1945, illustrated in color (titled Sunup)

Coy Ludwig, Maxfield Parrish, New York, 1973, no. 1945C, pp. 181, 200 and 214, illustrated

Alma Gilbert, Maxfield Parrish: The Masterworks, Berkeley, 1995, pp. 168-69 and 171, fig. 8.5, illustrated in color

Alma Gilbert, Maxfield Parrish: The Landscapes, Berkeley, 1998, no. 14, pp. 51 and 80-81, illustrated in color

Alma Gilbert, Parrish and Photography, Plainfield, New Hampshire, 1998, no. 31, pp. 49 and 78, illustrated in color

Laurence S. Cutler and Judy Goffman Cutler, Maxfield Parrish and the American Imagists, Edison, New Jersey, 2004, p. 282, illustrated in color

Newport, The National Museum of American Illustration, Maxfield Parrish: The Retrospective, May 2012 - January 2014