id: 119922
accession number: 1940.723
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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:
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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
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CREATORS
* Maxfield Parrish (American, 1870–1966) - artist
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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.)
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description: beige wove paper
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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-
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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).
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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}
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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-
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RELATED WORKS
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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IMAGES
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