MAXFIELD
PARRISH. Typed Letter Signed to Miss Dinsmore, Windsor,
VT, 23 May 1927. 1 page, 11" x 8½", on his personal
stationery.
The American artist Maxfield Parrish was best-known for his illustrations
and art prints, often on romantic and mythic subjects, using brilliant
colors and dramatic lighting effects. Here, Parrish writes to a magazine
editor about a long-promised cover illustration. "I have not
forgotten for a minute," he insists, "but that is
as far as I’ve got in doing anything. Up here we have to take
time in very large pieces: a ‘while’ means about ten years."
Then Parrish notes, "I have been trying to fight off a terrible
Mr. Costain of yours who is coiming [sic] up here with a terrible Mr.
Bye to start proceedings to write a terrible article for your Saturday
Evening Post, and I’ve written that I have no engagements for
June 1933," he adds humorously, "but they dont seem
to understand handling time in that manner. You see time depends upon
so little. If we had not the thing we call memory there would be no
time at all. So please give me credit for that: we have hope and we
have memory, even if there is’nt any cover yet." Parrish’s
correspondent was with a magazine called The Country Gentleman,
not The Saturday Evening Post, but both were issued by the
Curtis Publishing Company.
There is a partial paper clip stain in the top margin; the letter is
otherwise in fine condition. $750.00
This
image omits some of the blank lower margin of the lettersheet.
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