Parrish, Maxfield

Parrish, Maxfield (1870–1966),
American painter, muralist, illustrator, and commercial artist. Encouraged by his father, an etcher, and by Howard Pyle, Parrish began his long and phenomenally successful career in 1895 with a cover for Harper's Magazine and a mural of Old King Cole for the Mask and Wig Club in Philadelphia. From the outset, he specialized in fantasy—in idyllic landscapes and cloud castles peopled with whimsical or idealized figures, controlled by a strong sense of design and rendered in a luminous, photo‐realistic style entirely his own. Often, his pictures are suffused with colour—gold, crimson, or the intense ‘Parrish blue’. The first book Parrish illustrated was L. Frank Baum's first as well, Mother Goose in Prose (1897), followed by The Golden Age (1899) and Dream Days (1902) by Kenneth [The entire page is 307 words long]

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