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Images from Parrish's illustrations to Poems of Childhood and many others About Maxfield Parrish Maxfield Parrish Art Maxfield Parrish Books and other Resources E-cards While you are here, you can send a friend an electronic postcard. Or click on any gallery image to send it as an e-postcard to a friend. Where to Buy Maxfield Parrish Prints: You can find Parrish prints at Artsy Craftsy, at the Maxfield Parrish Print and Poster Gallery, or use the Art Print and Poster Finder. I do not have a source for very large Parrish posters, but do check the Poster Finder.

Calendars: 2009 Maxfield Parrish Calendar is out! The Art Passions calendar also has Maxfield Parrish images. Please consider supporting Art Passions. About Maxfield Parrish During the Golden Age of Illustration, Maxfield Parrish's "beautiful settings and charming figures" enchanted the American public. His work includes immense murals in office buildings and hotels, magazine covers, and advertisements as well as his book illustrations. Many of his illustrations to children's books, still popular today, are the result of his struggle to make a living as an artist in his early years around the turn of the 20th century. He was born Frederick Parrish in 1870 in Philadelphia, but he took the name Maxfield after his Quaker grandmother. His father, Stephen, was also an artist and Parrish's greatest influence. He originally studied architecture, an interest that is evident in his paintings. He married his wife Lydia 1895. In 1900, Parrish contracted tuberculosis, and then suffered a nervous breakdown. Around that time, he switched from illustrations to oil painting. His oil paintings became very popular, with their brilliant colors and magical luminosity, until well into the 1940s. To achieve these magical effects, he would apply numerous layers of thin, transparent oil, alternating with varnish over stretched paper, a painstaking process that achieved both high luminosity and extraordinary detail. The tuberculosis hung on and Parrish went to Arizona to convalesce in the dry heat there. While in Arizona, he was commissioned to do a series of landscapes. He began painting and traveling on commission and his career took off. Parrish worked at his home in Cornish, New Hampshire, called The Oaks. The Oaks was a popular destination for guests during the summers but in the frozen New Hampshire winters, Parrish dedicated himself to his painting. In 1905, Parrish's met Susan Lewin, a 16-year old girl hired as a nanny for his son Dillwyn. Her image appears often in paintings from this time through the 1920s. Over time, Susan became Parrish's assistant, model for his paintings, and eventually his lover. His wife, Lydia, and Maxfield grew increasingly estranged and she left him in 1911. Susan stayed with Maxfield for another 50 years. From the 1930s until 1960, when he stopped painting, Maxfield Parrish refocused his attention on the world around him, producing a series of calendar landscapes. Yet even these retain the magical, window-to-the-otherworld quality that permeates all of his work. Parrish died at 95 in 1966, at a time when his work was enjoying a renaissance of interest. Maxfield Parrish Art Air Castles Allah Aquamarine Arithmetic Arizona Atlas Landscape Black Isles Cadmus Canyon Christmas Eve Christmas Morning Cinderella Circes Cleopatra Contentment Daybreak Deep Snow Dinky Bird Dreaming Dreamlight Dream October Ecstasy 1 Ecstasy 2 Enchanted Prince Egypt Enchanted Evening Fountain of Pirene Frontispiece Golden Hours Glen Glen and Mill Griselda Harvest Her Window Hilltop Idot Jason King Cole The Prince Lady Ursula Lampseller Lanternbearers Lullbrook Lute Players Land of Make Believe Manager Man in an Apple Mill Pond Morning Spring Moonlight Moonlight 2 Morning Mountain Farm New Moon October Pan Pandora Parfum F Night Peach Primitive Proserpina Puss In Boots Reluctant Dragon Reveries Riverbank Seein' Things Shufflin Sleeping Beauty Solitude Spirit of the Night Spring Stars Sunlit Valley Tempest Violetta Lamplighter V Nights Waterfall White Birches Winter Nights 2 Winter Twilight Wynken

Maxfield Parrish Resources Calendars and Gifts Calendars: The Art Passions 2009 Calendar features two months with images by Maxfield Parrish. A larger selection of 2009 calendars is also available. Please consider supporting Art Passions. Gifts: You can find journals and other necessities with Maxfield Parrish images at the Design Passions Cafe Press Shop. Art Prints: Maxfield Parrish art prints are available here: Artsy Craftsy (source of the images below). Posters: Very large Maxfield Parrish posters are rare and costly when you do find them, although you can still find some that were printed by Paper Tiger Press in La Jolla, California, in the late '60s and early '70s. However, alternatives, such as nicely framing a page from a Maxfield Parrish calendar, also work. You'll want to avoid choosing a plate from a book because older Maxfield Parrish books in good condition can be quite valuable valuable. Check the Find Prints and Posters page where you can do a general search (by artist, subject, or title. ) Books: Check the list of Maxfield Parrish Books or do a search for Books illustrated by Maxfield Parrish Maxfield Parrish Art Prints at Artsy Craftsy The above links will take you to a listing of currently available larger-format Maxfield Parrish prints on fine art paper, with more to be added. Artsy Craftsy has some Maxfield Parrish prints that are not available elsewhere. Even more Maxfield Parrish fine art prints Maxfield Parrish mass market prints Search for Maxfield Parrish Posters and Prints The Search boxes are valid for any artist, title, or subject, not just those at Art Passions. ARTSY CRAFTSY Search by artist, keyword, or subject (multiple words okay, looks for all the words)      ALLPOSTERS.COM Search by artist, keyword, or subject (one word only)             ART.COM Search by work of art and / or artist Title: Artist: About Art Passions Art Passions began a tribute to artists whose work I grew up, and whose work has meaning for me personally. The list of artists on artpassions.net, including recent additions to the site, as well as other information are availble on the home page. Questions? Difficulties? Your questions may be answered in the FAQ. Also, sometimes things break. If something isn't working right, please tell the webmistress.

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