Article: PAINTER PARRISH KEPT HIS TRUE LOVE SECRET.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)

Byline: Donald Miller Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Scripps Howard News Service

The Make-Believe World of Maxfield Parrish and Sue Lewin

By Alma Gilbert

Ten Speed Press $17.95.

You either adore the paintings of Maxfield Parrish or try not to think of them because they are so sweet.

But the private life of Parrish (1870-1966), revealed in this illustrated softcover, held a secret - a menage-a-trois.

Lydia, his wife, a beauty and former art teacher, and their four children lived in an attractive white 15-room house called The Oaks that Parrish built in Cornish, N.H., an artists' colony co-founded by sculptor Augustus ...

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