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Maxfield Parrish: Illustrated Letters
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Maxfield Parrish: Illustrated Letters

October 17, 2009 – January 17, 2010

Between 1884 and 1886, the teenage Maxfield Parrish travelled to England and Europe with his parents. In letters home to his cousin Henry Bancroft, Parrish chronicled and illustrated his experiences.  These youthful illustrated letters provide a peek at life in England and Europe in the mid-1880s and a hint of Parrish’s amazing adult talent and humor.

 

Illustrated Letter to Henry Bancroft, July 22, 1884, London
Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966)
Pen on paper
Delaware Art Museum, Helen Farr Sloan Library & Archives, Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft, Jr., Pre-Raphaelite Manuscript Collection

Organizer & Sponsors

This exhibition is partly funded by a grant from the Delaware Humanities Forum, a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

In Delaware, this exhibition is made possible, in part, by grants from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency dedicated to nurturing and supporting the arts in Delaware, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.

Delaware Humanities Forum
Delaware Division of the Arts

 

Illustrated Letter to Henry Bancroft, December 1, 1885, Paris
Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966)
Pen on paper
Delaware Art Museum, Helen Farr Sloan Library & Archives, Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft, Jr., Pre-Raphaelite Manuscript Collection