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Maxfield Parrish ~ ‘The Art of the Print’ at The Everson Museum

Maxfield Parrish - "The Lantern Bearers", 1910 - Lithograph, 11½” x 8¾”, framed: 12½” x 10” Heritage Auctions - Courtesy of The Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

SYRACUSE, NY.- The Everson Museum of Art
presents
the long awaited exhibition, Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish
and the
Art of the Print will open to the public on Thursday, April 29, 2010.
The
exhibition will remain on view through July 11, 2010. During the height
of
Maxfield Parrish’s popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, he was the most
reproduced
American artist of his era. Disseminated through magazine covers, book
illustrations, calendar pads, advertisements and color reproductions,
Parrish’s
images occupied a ubiquitous presence in popular visual culture.