| Name: | Proserpina, aka Sea Nymphs |
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| Artist: | Maxfield Parrish |
| Year: | 1908 |
| Medium: | – |
| Size: | – |
| Model: | – |
| Project: | Illustration for Collier’s, April 23, 1910 |
Originally painted for Collier’s, April 23, 1910; illustration for A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales (facing page 288) by Nathaniel Hawthorne, pub. 1910.
| Name: | Pandora |
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| Artist: | Maxfield Parrish |
| Year: | 1908 |
| Medium: | – |
| Size: | – |
| Model: | – |
| Project: | Illustration for Collier’s, October 16, 1909 |
Originally painted for Collier’s, October 16, 1909; illustration for A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales (facing page 64) by Nathaniel Hawthorne, pub. 1910.
| Name: | Cadmus Sowing the Dragon’s Teeth |
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| Artist: | Maxfield Parrish |
| Year: | 1908 |
| Medium: | – |
| Size: | – |
| Model: | – |
| Project: | Illustration for Collier’s, October 31, 1908 |
Originally painted for Collier’s, October 31, 1908; illustration for A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales (facing page 226) by Nathaniel Hawthorne, pub. 1910.
| Name: | Circe’s Palace |
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| Artist: | Maxfield Parrish |
| Year: | 1907 |
| Medium: | – |
| Size: | – |
| Model: | – |
| Project: | Illustration for Collier’s, January 25, 1908 |
Originally painted for Collier’s, January 25, 1908; illustration for A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales (cover) by Nathaniel Hawthorne, pub. 1910.
| Name: | Land of Make Believe |
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| Artist: | Maxfield Parrish |
| Year: | 1905 |
| Medium: | Oil on canvas |
| Size: | 40″ x 33″ |
| Model: | – |
| Project: | Frontispiece in color for Scribner’s Magazine’s “Make-Believe” by Rosamund Marriott Watson, August 1912 |
Frontispiece for Scribner’s Magazine’s “Make-Believe” by Rosamund Marriott Watson, August
| Name: | The Dinkey Bird |
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| Artist: | Maxfield Parrish |
| Year: | 1904 |
| Medium: | – |
| Size: | 21 1/4″ x 15 1/2″ |
| Model: | Maxfield Parrish |
| Project: | Illustration for Poems of Childhood by Eugene Field. |
Illustration for Poems of Childhood (facing page 120) by Eugene Field. Issued in 1905 as a color reproduction by Charles Scribner’s Sons.
| Name: | The Young King of the Black Isles |
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| Artist: | Maxfield Parrish |
| Year: | 1906 |
| Medium: | – |
| Size: | – |
| Model: | – |
| Project: | frontispiece for Collier’s “Arabian Nights VIII”, May 18, 1907 |
Originally painted as a frontispiece for Collier’s “Arabian Nights VIII”, May 18, 1907. Illustration for The Arabian Nights, Their Best-Known Tales (facing page 74), edited by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. Smith.
| Name: | October |
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| Artist: | Maxfield Parrish |
| Year: | 1897 |
| Medium: | – |
| Size: | 25″ x 17 1/2″ |
| Model: | Lydia Austin (later Mrs. Parrish) |
| Purpose: | Scribner’s magazine cover competition |
A girl in a flowing toga-like garb sits holding a lap full of grapes and other fruit. Behind her trees frame a round setting sun.
Parrish painted October and submitted it to a competition held by Scribner’s for their May and August 1898 covers. Parrish was one of about 20 artists asked to compete. Finally published on the cover of Scribner’s Magazine, October 1900.