Then one of the most famous Etchers
during America’s ‘Etching Revival’ :
Today the “Rediscovered American Etcher”
Parrish, Stephen Windsor (Philadelphia 1846 – Cornish, New Hampshire, 1938). Low tide at the bay of a flat, sparsely overgrown coast opening to the right, dominated to the left by a large dark rock. Small stage reaching into the bay, beyond a property. Etching printed in brown over an ochre tone plate. C. 1880. Inscribed: · S.Parrish · (ligated) / 44 (in reverse), otherwise in etched typography in the platemark: Orig. Radierung von St. Parrish. / Druck der Gesellschaft f. vervielf. Kunst in Wien. 24.5 x 35.5 cm.
Only in the age of 31 Parrish, pupil of i. a. Peter Moran and father of Frederick Maxfield P., finally turned to the arts, “like a duck to water”, so he himself years later. Just about the time when America’s artists discovered the art of etching for themselves:
“ Even America has a small prehistory of modern art of etching. In the ’80s and ’90s of the previous century there was a promising heyday … a number of names appear the collector has to watch and which he may pay attention to if he comes across.
“ Almost only pure landscape works come into question … I would like to mention further … Stephen Parrish … All these stand the comparison with their European colleagues ”
(Singer).
During the following 11 years Parrish worked especially landscapes and marine views of the American Northeast and Canada as well as of England and France:
“ Parrish quickly found his best subject matter in the landscape of Eastern North America, particularly the harbors and villages of New England and Canada. As a leading critic wrote in 1883: ‘Mr. Stephen Parrish, whom I should put … in the very first rank of our … etchers, and who is the most popular of them all … is especially associated with seaboard scenes. Our ragged fisher-villages, with their rocky foundations and primitive vessels, have found in him a first and most clear-voiced interpreter’. ”
So the introduction to the 1999 rediscovery exhibition “Stephen Parrish: Rediscovered American Etcher” in the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia. – On toned strong laid paper.
Offer no. 14,566 / EUR 325. / export price EUR 309. (c. US$ 421.) + shipping
„ I have seen your excellent promo for this item (referring the Diego Ribeiro map) and I may be interested in acquiring it for a very important gift … “
(Mr. M. A. B., December 5, 2008)