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Malcolm Parcell

Malcolm Stephens Parcell (1896 - 1987) was active/lived in Pennsylvania.  Malcolm Parcell is known for Portrait, landscape, figure and genre painting.

Malcolm Parcell is considered by some persons to be the 'Grand Old Man of Southwestern Pennsylvania painters'.  He is more immediately associated with Washington, Pennsylvania, the county's seat, and has spent most of his life in the area.

He was born in Claysville, near Washington, and was introduced to painting by his father who had studied art before he entered the Baptist ministry, and by Malcolm's brother, Evans, who was a successful magazine illustrator.

Parcell entered Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon) in 1916 and studied under Arthur Watson Sparks and George Sutter.  The year he graduated in 1918 was also the year in which he was awarded the first prize in the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh's exhibition for his portrait Louine.  It was later purchased by the One Hundred Friends of Pittsburgh Art and presented to Pittsburgh's Board of Education for exhibit in one of their schools.

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Facts about Malcolm Parcell

   Publications  Book References:  16
Magazine References:  1

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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Malcolm Parcell
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Realism and Its Response in Pennsylvania Painting August 2006 Fahlman, Betsy Yes
16 Book References for Malcolm Parcell
Year Author Title Pages Color
2006 Fahlman, Betsy (Essay) Artists of the Commonwealth: Realism and Its Response in Pennsylvania Painting, 1900-1950
(Exhibition catalog)
71 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
2002 Edwards, Paul Burgess The Life and Work of Malcolm Parcel A Catalogue Raisonne 239 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1992 Strazdes, Diana American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art 511 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)
622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
1117 No
1989 Chew, Paul Southwestern Pennsylvania Painters Collection Westmorland Museum of Art 138 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)
538 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1984 Marlor, Clark S The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944
(Exhibition catalog)
600 No
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1940 Carnegie Institute Survey of American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)
320 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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