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Jean Parrish

Jean Parrish (1911 - 2004) was active/lived in New Hampshire, New Mexico.  Jean Parrish is known for Painter-mountain landscape, streets.

Jean Parrish, a Southwest landscape painter, was born June 26, 1911 at her parents home at the Oaks in Plainfield, New Hampshire.  She is the only one of the children of illustrator Maxfield Parrish and his wife Lydia Austin Parrish to become an artist.  

In 1922, at the age of eleven, she posed for Maxfield Parrish's famous illustration, Daybreak, in which she is the vertical figure bending over the reclining figure.  A photograph dated 1922, titled Jean Parrish Posing for Daybreak is in the Special Collections of Dartmouth College Library, Hanover, New Hampshire.   She also posed for her father as the model for Mary, Mary Quite Contrary and for Jack and the Beanstalk.  According to Alma Gilbert in her book Maxfield Parrish, "The last painting with a human figure that Parrish did was for the famous Collier's cover, Jack Frost (1936), suggested by his daughter, Jean." (19)

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