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Catalog no. 0000764

MediumGouache on Paper
Size21 Inches x 30 Inches
SignedSigned LL: Charles Parsons
DateCirca 1895

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Charles Parsons is a name which deserves to be widely recognized throughout American art circles. An accomplished watercolorists and a lithographer nearly without peer, he served as the art director for Harper's Weekly and Magazine from 1863 to 1889. As such he was instrumental in the development of the art of American illustration and directly influenced the early careers of numerous artists, including Winslow Homer, Edwin Abbey, Howard Pyle, Frederick Church and Frederick Remington, among dozens more. Parsons apprenticed at 15 to the New York lithographic studio of George Endicott. Through…

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