Background
Parrish was born in Phoenix, Arizona, United States, on April 3, 1970. He spent the majority of his early years in East Texas. His parents were American and European nineteenth-century art collectors.
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Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.
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New York Academy of Art.
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Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.
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New York Academy of Art.
Parrish was born in Phoenix, Arizona, United States, on April 3, 1970. He spent the majority of his early years in East Texas. His parents were American and European nineteenth-century art collectors.
Graydon Parrish studied at the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and graduated from it in 1988. He continued his education at the newly formed New York Academy of Art, created by Andy Warhol and Stuart Pivar. While there, the painter joined other students who have become main figures in the classical art rebirth, including Jacob Collins, who became the founder of the Grand Central Academy of Art. After graduating from the New York Academy with a Master of Fine Arts in painting, Parrish attended Amherst College, receiving a Bachelor of Arts.
Graydon Parrish's subjects in painting were mostly allegories and nudes. In 2001, the Tyler Museum of Art bought his nude "Victory", inspired by the antique bronze "An Athlete Crowning Himself". Parrish also made a thorough research of French 19th-century art.
In 2002, Douglas Hyland, the director of the New Britain Museum of American Art, suggested Parrish to produce an allegorical tribute to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The artwork, The Cycle of Terror and Tragedy, was one of the largest realist paintings ever created in America (18 feet long). It has become controversial, both for its academic style and for its extremely symbolic content, expressing the cycle of denial and tragedy. The work was compared with Pablo Picasso's Guernica and Théodore Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa. Today it hangs in the Chase Wing of the New Britain Museum of Art.
In 1994 Parrish opened a studio in Amherst, Massachusetts, which functioned till 2008. In 2008, he moved to Austin, Texas, to be near his family. There he has taught and contributed to the growing independent Austin art scene, including Arthouse at the Jones Center, the Blanton Museum of Art and the Austin Museum of Art.
Graydon Parrish is an extremely talented artist. Among the collectors of his art are Christopher Forbes, Diane Sawyer, Lloyd and Renée Greif, Michael Huffington, Rita and David Traff, Robert and Chris Emmons, Vernon and Amy Faulconer, Therèse Garner, and Paul and Melinda Sullivan.
Parrish's works are presented in numerous public collections, including the Tyler Museum of Art in Tyler, Texas, the Mead Art Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts, the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin Texas, the Austin Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, and the New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, Connecticut.
The Cycle of Terror and Tragedy: September 11, 2001
Female Head Study
Victory
White Roses
Remorse, Despondence, and Acceptance of an Early Death
Coi Burrus as the American Sappho
Sean
Standing Female Nude
Arrangement in Subtle Tones: Elsie
Young Woman Looking to Her Right (Susanna (muse))
Pieta (In Memoriam)
Young Woman Turning To Her Right
Susanna looking to her right
Woman Holding A Candle
Music
Dance
Allegory
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Rose
White Roses
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