Malcolm Parcell


Malcolm Stevens Parcell was an American artist who won the 1925 Carnegie Prize.

Biography

He was born on January 1, 1896 in Claysville, Pennsylvania to a Baptist minister and later attended Carnegie Institute of Technology. He was known for landscapes and portraits. Six of his murals grace the walls of the Pioneer Room at the George Washington Hotel in Washington, Pennsylvania. In 1937 he married Helen Louise Gallagher, a school teacher who had modelled for many of his paintings. His brother, Evans Parcell, was a magazine illustrator. He died on March 25, 1987.