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Maxfield Parrish

Guess who’s having a revival—

I am one of those people who grew up, I am now aware, in a household that was completely bourgeois.

A “primitive-moderne” spoofs American art and history.

A new talent burst on the art world a few months ago, a talent which lies somewhere between Jackson Pollock and Gluyas Williams and within shouting distance of Maxfield Parrish. His name is simply Mr. Otis, and he comes from Portland. Oregon.

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