Maxfield Parrish, Machinist, Artisan, Artist

July 19, 2018 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Maxfield Parrish, Machinist, Artisan, Artist
Thursday, July 19
5:30 p.m.

For a time in the 1920s, Maxfield Parrish was the most recognized and reproduced working artist in America. For all of his working life, Parrish, who lived and worked in Plainfield, NH, maintained a fully equipped machine shop on the lower level of his studio. The casual viewer may think that the enchanting, nostalgic appeal of his art sprang from his imagination only. Not so – his work belies a strong connection between artistic fantasy and technical reality. Join Ann Lawless, Executive Director of the American Precision Museum, for a look at the many facets of Parrish’s career. Free for Museum members, or included with Museum admission.

 

THURSDAY EVENING LECTURE AND PERFORMANCE SERIES
The Narrative Tradition
Thursdays, July 5, 12, 19, 26, August 2, 9, 16, 23, 30

Enjoy this engaging series of talks and performances inspired by our current exhibition and the persuasive power of visual imagery in its many forms. Free for Museum members, or included with Museum admission.

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Land Acknowledgement

It is with gratitude and humility that we acknowledge that we are learning, speaking and gathering on the ancestral homelands of the Mohican people, who are the indigenous peoples of this land on which the Norman Rockwell Museum was built. Despite tremendous hardship in being forced from here, today their community resides in Wisconsin and is known as the Stockbridge-Munsee Community. We pay honor and respect to their ancestors past and present as we commit to building a more inclusive and equitable space for all.

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