"Original Illustration for The Red Cross" Lot no. 3692
By Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966)
1918 (Estimated)
Each Panel is 19.875" x 14.00"
Oil on Board
Signed 'Maxfield Parrish/Windsor./Vermont.' (On the Reverse)
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1 of a 4 part Illustration, Used as Promotional Posters
Exhibited:
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, Maxfield Parrish: Master of Make-Believe, June 1-September 2, 1974, p. 33, nos. 62-63 (as Red Cross - World War I (Untitled Poster Design)).
Literature:
A.E. Gallatin, Art and the Great War, New York, 1919, n.p., illustrated.
"Brief Mention of New Books," The Bookman, vol. L, no. 6, February 1920, p. ii.
C. Ludwig, Maxfield Parrish, New York, 1973, pp. 111, 114, 213, fig. 82, illustrated (as Untitled Poster for Red Cross).
M.S. Sweeney, Maxfield Parrish Prints, Dublin, New Hampshire, 1974, p. 26.
P. Rice, Classical America IV, New York, 1977, p. 224, illustrated.
A.G. Smith, Maxfield Parrish: Master of Make-Believe, exhibition catalogue, Washington, D.C., 2005, p. 75.
Other half of the original 4 panel illustration:
https://www.illustratedgallery.com/artwork/original/3691/by-maxfield-parrish/
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