November

 

Stephen Maxfield Parrish

  1846 - 1938 (biography)

1880  

etching 

6 x 11" platemark 

signed in plate, lower right 

not stated 

 

American Art Review, 1881, Vol. II, page 6 

antique-white laid 

published 

American Art Review, Sylvester R. Koehler 

17756 

$200.00 

Stephen Parrish's "November" was published in American Art Review in 1881, only four years after the artist first began to learn artistic techniques of any kind. Parrish, who had been raised in a traditional Quaker household, was discouraged from pursuing art as a career spent the years between ages eighteen and thirty as a businessman. However, his passion for art in general was accepted; in fact, his parents funded a trip to Paris - ostensibly on behalf of the family's coal business - at the time of the Paris Exposition. By the time he picked up his etching tools in 1877 Parrish had immersed himself in the world of the visual arts through visits to museums in Paris and London, and by attending exhibitions in New York.

In 1880 Koehler, the patron saint of the etching revival, asked Parrish to etch a plate for the American Art Review, which published one or two original American etchings in each monthly issue. Parrish sent proofs of two dozen etchings, and after Koehler selected "November" Parrish spent several months reworking the plate, since, as he wrote Koehler, "my bow to the public through the medium of the Review is, to me, a very important matter."

This impression had began to separate at the lower plate mark and was professionally repaired; the image is excellent. The price reflects the condition.