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Stephen Maxfield Parrish

Stephen Maxfield Parrish (1846 - 1938) was active/lived in Pennsylvania, New Hampshire.  Stephen Parrish is known for Etcher, landscape, marine, and figure painter.

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During the 1880s, Stephen Parrish was one of the leading etchers in America. Although his paintings were received with favor and were shown regularly in New York and at exhibitions throughout the country, he was more widely known for his etchings, especially those of New England coastal scenes.

In 1867, he was in Paris, but as a coal merchant, and not as an artist.  By 1869 in Philadelphia, he owned a stationery store, which he sold in 1877 and then committed himself to painting and etching.  Around 1890, after the peak of the Etching Revival, he returned to painting landscapes on Cape Cod and Cape Ann, and also traveled to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.  He stopped painting in the mid 1920s due to a stroke.  He was the brother of Anne L. Parrish and father of illustrator Maxfield Parrish.

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Stephen Maxfield Parrish


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Easel Painting
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Sketch, Sketching
Art MediaArt Subject
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
  • Snowscene, Winter Landscape
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Cape Ann, Massachusetts: Gloucester, Rockport, North Shore
  • Cape Cod, Massachusetts
  • Europe
  • Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
  • White Mountains, New Hampshire
Art Association
  • Brooklyn Art Association
  • New York Etching Club
  • Philadelphia Sketch Club
  • Society of Independent Artists-
Art Teacher
  • Peter Moran
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
  • Figure Specialty
  • Marine Before 1900
  • Miniature Specialty
  • Snowscene Specialty
Artist Colony
  • Cornish Art Colony, New Hampshire
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
  • MacBeth Gallery, New York City
  • Vose Galleries, Boston
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
  • World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1892-1893
Exhibition of Art Association
  • Boston Art Club-
  • Brooklyn Art Association-
  • Lotos Club
  • National Academy of Design, New York
  • Philadelphia Sketch Club-
  • Salmagundi Club, New York City-
  • Society of Independent Artists--
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Museum of Fine Arts Boston
  • Smithsonian Institution/Museums
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
  • Paris Salons

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