id: 119922 accession number: 1940.723 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.723 updated: 2025-03-05 12:07:40.699000 The Golden Age: Alarums and Excursions, 1899. Maxfield Parrish (American, 1870–1966). Brush and black and gray wash, with white gouache, over graphite, framing lines in pen and black ink; image: 27.9 x 17.7 cm (11 x 6 15/16 in.); sheet: 37.5 x 24.8 cm (14 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of James Parmelee, 1940.723 title: Alarums and Excursions title in original language: series: The Golden Age series in original language: creation date: 1899 creation date earliest: 1899 creation date latest: 1899 current location: creditline: Bequest of James Parmelee copyright: --- culture: America technique: brush and black and gray wash, with white gouache, over graphite, framing lines in pen and black ink department: Drawings collection: DR - American 19th Century type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Maxfield Parrish (American, 1870–1966) - artist --- measurements: Image: 27.9 x 17.7 cm (11 x 6 15/16 in.); Sheet: 37.5 x 24.8 cm (14 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: beige wove paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: signed in image, lower right, in black watercolor: M . P; lower left, by artist, across bottom margin, in graphite: "Alarums and Excursions." . . . Once again were damsels rescued, dragons / disembowelled, and giants . . . etc.; verso, by artist, in top half: no. 225 [inside a box] / Maxfield Parrish. / "The Oaks" / Windsor: Vermont. / June of 1899.; on fragment of old mount, now removed, in brown ink: Original pen + ink drawing by Maxfield Parrish. / Being one of the illustrations of "The Golden Age" / by Kenneth Grahame (John Lane Co. 1899); on fragment of old mount, now removed: B[ought?] of Frd'k Keppel Co. / 1899-$50- translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Maxfield Parrish, Master of Make-Believe opening date: 1974-05-31T04:00:00 Maxfield Parrish, Master of Make-Believe. Brandywine River Museum of Art (organizer) (May 31-September 2, 1974). title: America Draws opening date: 1984-12-28T05:00:00 America Draws. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1984-March 17, 1985). title: American Drawings from the Permanent Collection opening date: 1998-04-19T00:00:00 American Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 19-July 12, 1998). title: Maxfield Parrish: 1870-1966 opening date: 1999-06-19T00:00:00 Maxfield Parrish: 1870-1966. Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Museum of American Art (June 19-September 26, 1999). title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00 Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002). title: Fairy Tales and Fables: Illustration and Storytelling in Art opening date: 2024-05-04T04:00:00 Fairy Tales and Fables: Illustration and Storytelling in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 4-September 8, 2024). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Exhibition of Maxfield Parrish’s drawings for book commissions, including The Golden Age, held at Keppel Gallery, New York, NY (1899).', 'opening_date': None} --- PROVENANCE (Frederick Keppel & Co., New York, NY.) date: 1899-? footnotes: citations: James C. [1855-1931] and Alice W. [1862-1940] Parmelee, Cleveland, OH, bequest to The Cleveland Museum of Art. date: ?-1940 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH. date: 1940- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Grahame, Kenneth. The Golden Age. John Lane Co.: London & New York [printed], 1899. page number: Reproduced: opp. p. 42 and in 1904 edition. url: Ludwig, Coy L.. “From Parlor Print to Museum: The Art of Maxfield Parrish.” Art Journal 25, no. 2 (Winter 1965-1966): 143-146. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 143-144, fig 2. url: Ludwig, Coy L., Diane Casella Hines, Robert Fillie, and James Craig. Maxfield Parrish. New York, NY: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1973. page number: Mentioned: pp. 28-29, 206; Reproduced: p. 32, fig. 20. url: Brandywine River Museum, and Maxfield Parrish. Maxfield Parrish, Master of Make-Believe: An Exhibition, June 1 Through September 2, 1974. 1974. page number: Reproduced: pp. 40-41, no. 105 url: Bharucha, Fershid and Rosalie Gomes. Black & White: Being the Early Illustrations of Maxfield Parrish. New York, NY: Thumbtack Books, 1982. page number: Reproduced: p. 85 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: The Museum, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 138 url: Yount, Sylvia, Mark Bockrath, Serena Rattazzi, Daniel Rosenfeld, and Maxfield Parrish. Maxfield Parrish, 1870-1966. New York: Harry N. Abrams in association with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1999. page number: Mentioned: p. 54, Reproduced: p. 56 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 92, p. 5, pp. 220-221; p. 296 url: Dowd, Douglas Bevan, and Stephanie Haboush Plunkett. Stick Figures: Drawing As a Human Practice. St. Louis, Missouri: Spartan Holiday Books, 2018. page number: Reproduced: P. 140' fig. 77 url: Montañés-lleras, Susana. “Fairy Tales and Fables: The transformation of illustration in the long 19th century.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 64, no. 1 (2024): 10-11. page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 11. url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.723/1940.723_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.723/1940.723_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.723/1940.723_full.tif