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Malcolm Parcell

Malcolm Stephens Parcell (1896 - 1987) was active/lived in Pennsylvania.  Malcolm Parcell is known for Portrait, landscape, figure and genre painting.

Malcolm Parcell is considered by some persons to be the 'Grand Old Man of Southwestern Pennsylvania painters'.  He is more immediately associated with Washington, Pennsylvania, the county's seat, and has spent most of his life in the area.

He was born in Claysville, near Washington, and was introduced to painting by his father who had studied art before he entered the Baptist ministry, and by Malcolm's brother, Evans, who was a successful magazine illustrator.

Parcell entered Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon) in 1916 and studied under Arthur Watson Sparks and George Sutter.  The year he graduated in 1918 was also the year in which he was awarded the first prize in the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh's exhibition for his portrait Louine.  It was later purchased by the One Hundred Friends of Pittsburgh Art and presented to Pittsburgh's Board of Education for exhibit in one of their schools.

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Malcolm Parcell


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art MethodArt MediaArt Style
  • Impressionism Before 1940
Art Subject
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Portraits, Portraiture
  • Regionalism, Local Scene
  • Still Life
Art Association
  • Society of Independent Artists-
Art School
  • Carnegie Mellon Technical Institute, University, Student
Awards/Recognition
  • Frank Logan Prize, Art Institute of Chicago
  • Norman Wait Harris Bronze Medal, Chicago Art Institute
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
  • Figure Specialty
  • Genre Specialty
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
  • MacBeth Gallery, New York City
Exhibition of Art Association
  • National Academy of Design, New York
  • Society of Independent Artists--
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
  • Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC

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