# Maxfield Parrish artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-18T18:44:01.535Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting, Illustration, Art prints and reproduced illustrations

## Portrait

![Maxfield Parrish](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Kenyon_Cox_-_Portrait_of_Maxfield_Parrish_%281905%29.jpg/1280px-Kenyon_Cox_-_Portrait_of_Maxfield_Parrish_%281905%29.jpg)
Kenyon Cox · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kenyon_Cox_-_Portrait_of_Maxfield_Parrish_(1905).jpg

## About Maxfield Parrish

Maxfield Parrish (1870–1966) was an American painter and illustrator whose career was most active during the first half of the twentieth century. His images are associated with saturated color and idealized neo-classical or imaginative subjects. Parrish worked across painting and illustration, so collectors may encounter his name on original pictures, published illustrations, and art prints derived from widely circulated compositions. That range matters for entity matching: an original work, an illustrated publication, and a reproduction can carry the same artist name while representing materially different objects. Institutional and authority profiles from Wikidata, IdRef, Getty ULAN, MoMA, and the National Gallery of Art consistently connect Parrish with American painting and illustration. His visibility in illustration and print culture also helps explain why his imagery appears frequently in auction, collection, and appraisal searches, including searches involving objects that are not original paintings.

## Common works and media

Auction and appraisal contexts may include paintings, original illustrations, illustrated publications, and art prints or other reproductions. Parrish-related images often feature saturated color and idealized neo-classical or imaginative fantasy subjects. Because a print may reproduce a composition associated with a painting or illustration, the physical medium and production method should be identified rather than inferred from the image alone.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal begins by establishing what kind of Parrish-related object is being examined. An original painting or illustration should not be compared directly with an art print or later reproduction. Subject matter and its relationship to Parrish's idealized neo-classical or fantasy imagery can help guide comparable-lot selection, but visual similarity alone does not establish authorship. Appraisily's public artist page provides auction-record context; object-level research should then consider the medium, sale date, realized price, and similarity of available comparable lots. This source pack does not provide condition, dimensions, provenance, edition details, attribution evidence, or individual sale results, so it does not support a price prediction. Those facts must be verified for the specific object before reaching a value conclusion.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with available auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. Coverage varies according to the object and the public records available.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1333928
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/052569241
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500004193
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/4507
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.28988.html
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxfield_Parrish
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxfield_Parrish
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/maxfield-parrish/