During the golden age of illustration, maxfield parrish s beautiful settings and charming figures enchanted the american public. This one image in coy ludwigs indispensable 1973 book, maxfield parrish, told me a great deal about parrish. Old king cole was the first of twelve murals painted by maxfield parrish, one of americas greatest book and magazine illustrators of the twentieth century. Maxfield parrish 18701966 has long been considered one of the greatest american illustrators of the 20th century and lived and worked throughout his career in cornish hills, new hampshire. His work includes immense murals in office buildings and hotels, magazine covers, and advertisements as well as his book. Decade after decade, maxfield parrish transcended commercial illustration with a surrealistic style of dreams. We serve cookies our website uses cookies, which help us to improve our site and enables us to deliver the best possible service and customer experience, as well.
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Maxfield parrish books list of books by author maxfield. Maxfield parrish by coy ludwig maxfield parrish was the illustrater of childrens books and magazine advertisements of my childhood. What we see is an artist who still believes in beautiful places of gorgeous imagery executed in masterful realism based on imagination, talent and execution for its concept. Parrish s commercial art included many prestigious projects, among which were eugene fields poems of childhood in 1904, and such traditional works as arabian nights in 1909. Maxfield parrish was only 28 in 1898 when he and his new wife, lydia austin, could afford to build a house in plainfield, n.
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