37. Stephen Parrish
(1846-1938)

Winter in Trenton

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Parrish, Winter in Trenton

Winter in Trenton

Etching, 1883, 294 x 475 mm., Parrish 78, Schneider 78 iv/iv. A fine impression with varied plate tone on laid paper with full margins, published by Klackner and with his number stamp at the lower left edge; a very small repaired tear just outside the lower platemark. Stephen Parrish, the father of, and much superior artist to, Maxwell Parrish, the once trendy and much more famous son, is still a too-neglected figure in American etching. He did not take up art as a profession until he was thirty, but he was obviously a fast learner and his realistic, but poetic, portraits of places from Nova Scotia to St. Augustine, FL, as well as some European scenes, are splendid examples of the American Etching Revival in the 1880s and 90s, a much under-collected area of print making.