Harvard Art Museums > 1934.181: Black Sheep, Black Sheep, for "Mother Goose in Prose" Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Black Sheep, Black Sheep, for "Mother Goose in Prose" (F. Maxfield Parrish) , 1934.181,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 20, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/306791. This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1934.181 People F. Maxfield Parrish, American (Philadelphia, PA 1870 - 1966 Plainfield, NH) Title Black Sheep, Black Sheep, for "Mother Goose in Prose" Other Titles Former Title: Illustration for "Baa Baa Black Sheep Have You Any Wool" Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date c. 1897 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/306791 Physical Descriptions Medium Black crayon and black ink on cream cardboard Dimensions 35.4 x 25.9 cm (13 15/16 x 10 3/16 in.) image: 32.5 x 25.9 cm (12 13/16 x 10 3/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: black ink, l.l.: MP exhibition label: removed from old mount? now in curatorial file, paper, printed and typed: For Maxfield Parrish: Master of Make-Believe, 5/31 - 9/2/74. Catalogue no. 92 Provenance Recorded Ownership History Charles Bain Hoyt, Cambridge, Massachusetts, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1934. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles Bain Hoyt Copyright © Maxfield F. Parrish / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Accession Year 1934 Object Number 1934.181 Division Modern and Contemporary Art Contact am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History L. Frank Baum, Mother Goose in Prose, Way and Williams (Chicago, IL, 1897), reproduced in b/w opposite p. 58 [Reproduction only], The Christian Science Monitor, (Boston, MA, April 16, 1945). Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 126, ill. Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Master Drawings and Watercolors: A History of Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present, Harper & Row (New York, NY, 1976), p. 270, fig. 230 Susan E. Meyer, America's Great Illustrators, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1978), reproduced in b/w fig. 2, p. 113 Sylvia Yount, Maxfield Parrish 1870-1966, exh. cat., Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia, PA, 1999), pp. 47, 154, repr. p. 44 Exhibition History American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972 Maxfield Parrish: Master of Make-Believe, Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, 05/31/1974 - 09/02/1974 American Master Drawings and Watercolors: A History of Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 11/23/1976 - 01/23/1977 Maxfield Parrish 1870-1966, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, 11/06/1999 - 01/23/2000; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, 02/19/2000 - 04/30/2000; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, 05/26/2000 - 08/06/2000 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
