House and Garden 
Parrish made a quaint little caricature done 
in his most characteristic manner. John 
Harold Brockie’s peg, tor instance, is desig¬ 
nated by an earnest little knight who with 
helmet and spear rides valiantly to the joust 
on a spotted, white hobby-horse. By Trot¬ 
ter’s adjacent mug a dancer poises upon his 
toes, holding out the skirts of his ample coat. 
Next is Henry G. Bartol’s peg. A clown in 
blue and white costume stands with feet wide 
apart supporting a large sign, lettered with 
the owner’s name. A grotesque little man 
perched on the edge of the mantel keeps sim¬ 
pering guard over Wiener’s name and prop¬ 
erty. Most of the pegs painted by Parrish 
were purely fanciful grotesques without regard 
to the personality of the individual named. 
In others, done later on by Joseph J. 
Gould and the one by Lyman Saven the 
idea has been to make a sort of refined comic 
valentine, caricaturing certain fads or weak¬ 
nesses of the members. Mr. Gould took 
up the work where Parrish left it. Dunn’s 
peg had been roughly sketched in when 
Parrish gave up work upon the Club. Mr. 
Gould finished the figure as nearly as possi¬ 
ble as his predecessor had meant to make it. 
Though the spirit of the little decorations 
has been admirably kept in the later work, 
one can recognize Parrish’s pegs at a glance 
by their naive drawing and individualistic 
treatment. The latest peg is one for Dr. 
Sylvester James Deehan done by Mr. Sayen. 
Phe decoration over the old ticket window 
was the first of those made by Maxfield Par¬ 
rish and was unfortunately sacrificed during 
the last alterations, owing to the removal of 
the wall upon which it was painted. A 
tracing was kept, and it is the intention to 
restore the decoration at some future time. 
THE STAGE AT THE MASK AND WIG CLUB 
Showing the proscenium decorations by Maxfield Parrish 
