Alma Gilbert

Alma Gilbert is a nationally renowned expert in the art of the American artist Maxfield Parrish who was active from 1890 to 1965. Parrish lived all of his adult life in the rural hills of the Connecticut River Valley in New Hampshire. Mrs. Gilbert has owned well over 100 of Parrish's original paintings during her forty plus year career. She has written over 14 books on Parrish's life, career and paintings. Mrs. Gilbert has founded and run museums dedicated to the works of Maxfield Parrish, and...See more

Alma Gilbert is a nationally renowned expert in the art of the American artist Maxfield Parrish who was active from 1890 to 1965. Parrish lived all of his adult life in the rural hills of the Connecticut River Valley in New Hampshire. Mrs. Gilbert has owned well over 100 of Parrish's original paintings during her forty plus year career. She has written over 14 books on Parrish's life, career and paintings. Mrs. Gilbert has founded and run museums dedicated to the works of Maxfield Parrish, and is thus uniquely qualified to write from personal experiences about the adventures of running such an operation. See less