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During the summer of 2010, the two gallery halls at The Oaks will have on view more original Maxfield Parrish paintings than any place in the country, with items including the two magnificent murals which the artist created for his patrons:  Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1918) and Irene DuPont (1933).


Since Parrish collected a number of the works of his friends from the Cornish Colony, the halls at The Oaks also will display works by different members of the Cornish Colony such as the awesome Diana of the Tower the gilded bronze that Augustus Saint-Gaudens created.  Works by other members of this prestigious colony such as Annetta St. Gaudens, Thomas Dewing, Paul Manship, Henry and Edith Prellwitz, Frederic MacMonnies, Frederic Remington, James and Laura Fraser, Stephen Parrish, Frances Grimes, Robert and Bessie Vonnoh offer an overwhelming and awe inspiring experience to persons visiting these rooms.

The main viewing gallery at The Oaks

Many of the greats of Parrish’s day such as President and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Teddy Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald and Isadora Duncan, who danced in Parrish’s music room, visited and praised the beauty of the property and the artist’s gardens. The site of the former music room is now the main viewing gallery at The Oaks.

Alma Gilbert's renowned personal collection of Cornish Colony art is now at her home at "The Oaks", the former Maxfield Pasrrish homestead site. This has been supplemented by loans of several major Maxfield Parrish art works, as well as 14 colony-related art works from the Graham Williford Charitable Trust of Fairfield Texas.