Art+History

In third grade, students have the opportunity to look through several hundred art prints, many collected from museums or old calendars. About once every two weeks, a student picks a favorite print and tells classmates the name of the artwork and the artist. That print is then displayed for a week. The following week, before anothert print is chosen, the prints are displayed on the board without titles or artist names and students have the opportunity to match titles and names to the prints. It is a fun activity and gets quite challenging toward the end of the year when we have over 20 prints on the board.

September 15, 2010




 * About Maxfield Parrish **

Maxfield Parrish was born July 25, 1870 in Philadelphia. His father was famous etcher and landscape painter. He taught Maxfield all he knew about art. In 1884 to 1886 his parents took him through Europe to see the great museums. While he was there he absorbed everything around him from the architecture and music to the machinery and nature. Back home, Maxfield Parrish went to art school where he met his future wife Lydia Austin. They had four children.


 * Maxfield’s artwork was very popular and much of his work began to appear in many magazines ( **Collier's, Ladies Home Journal, Hearst, ** Harpers Bazaar, Life, Scribners, and Century. He also did ** illustrations for children's books. As he became more popular, Maxfield Parrish prints, calendars, greeting cards, and many other items were in high demand. He spent the last thirty years of his life painting landscapes.

In 1961, at ninety-one, he stopped painting because of ill health. He died in 1966 at the age of ninety-five.

We like the purple and blues in his paintings.