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with pencil and brush; but puttering with lathes, drills and presses
Mr. Parrish makes his living with pencil and brush; but puttering with lathes, drills and presses is his hobby. In fact, he has a completely equipped machine-shop right under the studio out back of his house. If there are stains on his hands, it may be paint from his palette or it may be oil and grease from the machines.
The New Hampshire artist has been an amateur machinist all his life; of course his intimate friends and neighbors have known it all along, but the fact reached the outer world only a few days ago — in a curious way.
Mr. Parrish sent in his subscription to Iron Age.
“What under the sun,” they said in the magazine office, “does Maxfield Parrish want The Iron Age for?”
They wrote and asked him. Because he is an amateur machinist, he replied, and because he has a machine-shop of his own under the same roof that covers his studio.
ex “Maxfield Parrish as a Mechanic,” based on something by Charles A. Merrill of the Boston Globe, in The Literary Digest 77:6 (May 12, 1923) : 40, 32, 33
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