Paul Cava Fine Art/Maxfield Parrish

(American 1870-1966) was a unique figure in American art, not belonging to any particular school he was one of America's most beloved artists working during the "Golden Age of American Illustration." He achieved incredible artistic renown and critical acclaim during his lifetime and has continued to interest new audiences ever since. The woman who was his studio assistant, muse and paramour, Sue Lewin is the subject of all of these photographic studies. She modeled in most of his major paintings, including all the figures in the Florentine Fete, a series of murals made for the Curtis Publishing Company in Philadelphia. Parrish would use these glass photographs as an aid by projecting onto the surface of the canvas.