Judy and Laurence Cutler, curators of the Maxfield Parrish exhibition on view at Nassau County Museum of Art, present “Maxfield Parrish and the American Imagists,” a discussion of the varying styles and trends throughout Parrish’s eight-decade long career leading to his success, on Saturday, December 5 at 3 p.m.,
Co-founders of the National Museum of American Illustration in Newport, R.I., the Cutlers will also discuss Parrish’s contemporaries and how the greatest Golden Age illustrators influenced one another.
Judy and Laurence Cutler are widely-recognized experts on American illustration art. Architectural Digest called Judy Goffman Cutler the “undisputed doyenne of American Illustration.”
As founder also of the American Illustrators Gallery, Judy Cutler broke ground by showing Norman Rockwell’s art works in exhibitions across this country and later, through Europe and Asia. She also has assembled and curated private collections for such notables as George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Whoopi Goldberg, Ross Perot and others.
Laurence Cutler is an architect, urban designer, author, educator and advertising executive who taught architecture and urban design at Harvard, M.I.T. and Rhode Island School of Design. He has received National Endowment for the Arts grants, a Fulbright Hayes Grant, Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Alpha Rho Chi medal, Harvard’s Milton Fund grants and scholarships as well as design awards from the American Institute of Architecture.
Admission is $5 for members, $15 for nonmembers and includes museum admission. Register at nassaumuseum.org/events.
“Maxfield Parrish: Paintings and Prints from the National Museum of American Illustration” will be on display at the NCMA through Feb. 28.
Nassau County Museum of Art is located at One Museum Drive in Roslyn Harbor.
