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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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14 Book References for Jean Parrish
Year Author Title Pages Color
2008 Taylor, Dawn-Wolf; Aycock, Bonnie A Centennial Celebration of Art in Lubbock: A One-Hundred Year Celebration
(Exhibition catalog)
52 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Yount, Sylvia Maxfield Parrish 1870-1966 160 Yes
1998 Kovinick, Phil; Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West 405 No
1993 Bowker R R Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts) 1473 No
1992 Gilbert, Alma Maxfield Parrish The Masterworks 224 Yes
1990 Denver Rotary Club Artists of America Tenth Annual
(Exhibition catalog)
160 Yes
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1982 Nelson, Mary Carroll Masters of Western Art 176 Yes
1977 Meyer, Susan E (ed) 20 Landscape Painters And How They Work 175 Yes
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1974 Museum of Texas Tech Univ Selections from the Collection Mr & Mrs Fred T Hogan
(Exhibition catalog)
60 Yes
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