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NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ILLUSTRATION 

MAXFIELD PARRISH RETROSPECTIVE

EXTENDED THROUGH FALL 2013!

Venetian Lamplighters, 1924

Originally scheduled to conclude this September, the NMAI’s Maxfield Parrish: The Retrospective exhibition is extended through the Fall of 2013, due to its incredible popularity and accolades. Visitors have already come from as far as China, S. Korea, Sweden, the UK, Italy, the Czech Republic, anon…, not to mention from all over the United States, just to visit the Parrish exhibition and  NMAI.

A Florentine Fete, 1916

The NMAI has the single largest collection of Maxfield Parrish artworks in the world. Our American Imagist Collection includes his largest work (see: above), a self-proclaimed “Magnum Opus,” ‘The Florentine Fete,’ comprises 18 murals (each 10 1/2 feet tall) and his smallest work, ‘The Tallwood Pearl‘ (painted on a 1 1/2 inch diameter Mother of Pearl button-for his gardner’s daughter, who collected buttons), on view along with 64 other Parrish artworks,  the largest exhibition of Parrish original artworks ever held.

NMAI holds the largest Maxfield Parrish collection of original paintings extant – over 100 artworks as well as every vintage artprint, book illustration, magazine cover and advertisement he created.

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Newport Art Museum

The Japan Craze: Art and Craft in Rhode Island after 1854

June 12, 2010 to October 17, 2010