Modern Day Auction
Modern Day Auction
Property from a Distinguished American Collection
Little Brook Farm (Sunup)
Auction Closed
May 16, 09:00 PM GMT
Estimate
1,200,000 - 1,800,000 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
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