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	The Parrish House - Maxfield Parrish Biography
		Maxfield Parrish (1870 - 1966) was an American painter and illustrator.
		Parrish was famous for the dazzlingly luminous colors that marked much of his artwork; the shade “Parrish blue” was coined in acknowledgement.
		Maxfield Parrish was the most popular American artist from the turn of the century until Norman Rockwell succeeded him in the 1940’s.
	www.parrish-house.com (335 words)

	Classic Tile Murals - Artist Maxfield Parrish
		Maxfield Parrish's first major commission, in 1894, was for the Old King Cole mural and other wall decorations at the Mask and Wig Club of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
		Parrish's talent as an architect was lauded by numerous architectural digests and was the subject of many magazine articles.
		Maxfield Parrish died at "The Oaks" in 1966 at the age of ninety-five.
	www.classictilemurals.com /artists/parrish.html (453 words)

	Maxfield Parrish Biography - Vermont Soap Organics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Maxfield Parrish so dominated the images America loved that in the 1920's one out of four homes had his world of make-believe hanging on their walls.
		Another influential force in Parrish's academic career were the theories advanced by the historian-illustrator, Jay Hambidge, who preached in a series of lectures at Yale about a composition style which he called "dynamic symmetry." This system offered artists a formula for reproducing natural proportions in their works.
		Maxfield Parrish quietly passed away at the age of 95 at "The Oaks" in 1966.
	www.vermontsoap.com /parrish.shtml (811 words)

	Maxfield Parrish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		American born Maxfield Parrish may not be as familiar to you as say Hockney or Warhol, and his paintings don't fetch a fraction of the amount that the other two do, but in the 1920s Parrish was considered by the American public to be as great an artist as Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cezanne.
		Maxfield Parrish was actually born Frederick Parrish, but took the family name of Maxfield, by which he became known.
		Parrish's real soulmate, however, was Susan Lewin who he originally hired to take care of his children, but who soon became his model and companion for 55 years.
	www.sleepandhealth.com /Newspaper/2003/October/11.htm (582 words)

	Maxfield Parrish Art - Framed by ChooseArt.com
		Maxfield Parrish, MP to his family, friends and close associates, was a unique figure in American art.
		In spite of the long time it took to perfect a painting, Maxfield Parrish was prolific over the course of his productive years, from his children's books of the turn of the century, to his famous prints of androgynous, lounging nudes during the 1920s, to his calendar landscapes of the 1930s through the 1960s.
		Maxfield Parrish died in 1966 at age 95 in his New Hampshire home/studio at The Oaks.
	www.chooseart.net /maxfield_parrish.html (877 words)

	Maxfield Parrish Biography
		Frederick Parrish (he would adopt the name Maxfield later) was born in Philadelphia in 1870 - of the generation of Orson Lowell, C.D. Gibson, Elizabeth Shippen Green, W.T. Benda, Franklin Booth, Howard Chandler Christy and F.R. Gruger.
		Parrish mentally assessed the blue component and painted it directly onto a base of white (paper, gesso, etc.) in a thin, transparent glaze.
		By 1900, Parrish was an established, successful artist with membership in the Society of American Artists, a new wife, a custom built studio on the New Hampshire/Vermont border.
	www.bpib.com /illustrat/parrish.htm (1831 words)

	Maxfield Parrish Masterpiece "Daybreak" at National Museum of American Illustration
		In 1922, Maxfield Parrish produced "Daybreak," which he referred to as "the great painting." Distributed as an art print through the House of Art, "Daybreak" became the most successful art print of the last century and secured Parrish’s position as the most popular illustrator after the First World War, even more popular than Norman Rockwell.
		In composition it resembles a stage set, which is appropriate, since Maxfield Parrish loved the theatre and had designed a number of sets for masques in Cornish, New Hampshire.
		Also on loan to the NMAI is "Dream Garden" by Maxfield Parrish, the maquette from which his stunning "Dream Garden" mural at the Curtis Publishing Company building was fashioned.
	www.prweb.com /releases/Maxfield/Parrish/prweb410489.htm (914 words)

	Maxfield Parrish, 1870-1966
		Maxfield Parrish, 1870-1966 features more than 150 works, including 50 rarely seen original oil paintings, as well as original watercolors, drawings, a 10-foot mural, vintage prints, and numerous artifacts and ephemera representing the full scope of the artist's career.
		Frederick Maxfield Parrish was born in Philadelphia in 1870 to Elizabeth Bancroft and Stephen Parrish, himself an acclaimed etcher and landscape painter.
		Maxfield Parrish, 1870-1966, which was organized under the direction of the Pennsylvania Academy's chief curator Sylvia Yount, highlights the various phases of Parrish's prolific 70-year career.
	www.tfaoi.com /newsm1/n1m575.htm (847 words)

	Maxfield Parrish
		His father Stephen was an artist and encouraged his son from an early age and remained Maxfield's greatest influence.
		Maxfield started out to be an architect, but switched to studying art in 1892.
		Maxfield's studio was at his house, The Oaks, in Cornish, New Hampshire, and there they entertained many guests in summer.
	www.tragsnart.co.uk /arthub/parrish/parrish.htm (263 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Features -- 'Erotic innocence'
		Parrish hit his peak with the 1922 painting "Daybreak," which, in one reproduced form or another, ended up hanging in one of four American households.
		Kenyon Cox, whose portrait of Parrish is part of the exhibition, was a proponent of this sort of painting.
		Parrish enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, too, where he modernized the fantasy genre by taking what he learned from realists such as Thomas Anschütz and applied his lessons to established themes and figures of enchantment.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/features/20050722-9999-1c22parrish.html (1351 words)

	Parrish Art Images - Maxfield Parrish
		During the Golden Age of Illustration, Maxfield Parrish's "beautiful settings and charming figures" enchanted the American public.
		He was born Frederick Parrish in 1870 in Philadelphia, but he took the name Maxfield after his Quaker grandmother.
		Parrish died at 95 in 1966, at a time when his work was enjoying a renaissance of interest.
	parrish.artpassions.net (517 words)

	Talaria Enterprises: Maxfield Parrish: Sculptures: Stars Dream Garden Stained Glass by Maxfield Parrish
		Maxfield Parrish (American, 1870-1966) has been considered one of the greatest American illustrators of the twentieth century.
		The motif of this pendant is taken from Maxfield Parrish's painting "Mask and Pierrot" (1920).
		Maxfield Parrish was a graduate and loyal alumnus of The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and Dream Garden was designed especially for the neoclassical architecture of the Curtis Center, a Philadelphia landmark.
	www.talariaenterprises.com /product_lists/parrish.html (301 words)

	Maxfield Parrish, 1870-1966
		But Parrish's illustrations, reproduced during his lifetime in millions of magazines and books, on millions of seed packets and boxes of chocolates, tended to be more romantic, filled with luminescent light and symmetry.
		"Maxfield Parrish, 1870-1966," a critical review of Parrish's work hosted by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and organized by The American Federation of Arts, features nearly 200 paintings, sketches, drawings, photographs and objects to give an overview of a 70-year career that spanned the 19th and 20th centuries with nearly unparalleled popularity.
		Born Frederick Parrish -- he would later take his grandmother's maiden name as his own -- to a wealthy family, Parrish was exposed to the arts from childhood.
	www.rambles.net /parrish_retro.html (581 words)

	Maxfield Parrish - A brief biography
		Fred Maxfield Parrish (MP to his family, friends, and close associates) was born July 25, 1870 in Philadelphia to Stephen Parrish, a well known artist and etcher and his wife Elizabeth Bancroft Parrish.
		Parrish was brought into millions of American homes via his book illustrations, his ads, his calendars and greeting cards and his famous art prints.
		Many rare Parrish paintings in the collections of major museums across the country were gathered in a fine tribute to this fabulous artist to close out the 20th century and one thing is certain: Parrish's works continued to beguile and delight readers and viewers of all ages.
	www.almagilbert.com /html/MP.html (986 words)

	Serendipitous discovery of stolen painting / Maxfield Parrish admirer finds it near S.F. gallery it was taken from 20 ...
		The 1942 oil by Maxfield Parrish, "The Study for the River at Ascutney," passed through many hands before it was found at another gallery, this one on Geary Street.
		Parrish was one of 100 writers and artists who lived in the Cornish Colony in New Hampshire, one of the earliest art colonies in the United States.
		Parrish painted "The Study for the River at Ascutney" in a later period, when he concentrated on landscapes such as a languid waterway with Vermont's Mount Ascutney in the background.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/09/09/MNGKE8LUFC1.DTL (1021 words)

	Maxfield Parrish Online
		Maxfield Parrish at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
		Maxfield Parrish at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. Professional Tools:
		All images and text on this Maxfield Parrish page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/parrish_maxfield.html (350 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / MAXFIELD PARRISH
		The public penchant for Parrish died out, however, by the early forties, and his name was all but forgotten for twenty years (possibly the shortest period of oblivion ever endured by an artist).
		Parrish quit Haverford in his junior year to attend classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; at the same time he enrolled at the Drexel Institute to study with the noted illustrator Howard Pyle.
		Parrish’s design, Dream Garden, was another of his fantasy landscapes, including a waterfall, and the 15-by-49-foot glass mosaic, finished in 1915, is still in place in the Curtis entrance hall.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1970/1/1970_1_16.shtml (1842 words)

	Maxfield Parrish Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		MAXFIELD PARRISH (1870-1966) was a unique figure in American art, not belonging to any school, part traditionalist, part inventor, sometime illustrator of gnomes and dragons, other times finding inspiration in the oak trees of his New Hampshire environs.
		A meticulous craftsman, Parrish's idiosyncratic painting method involved applying numerous layers of thin, transparent oil, alternating with varnish over stretched paper, yielding a combination of great luminosity and extraordinary detail.
		In spite of the long time it took to perfect a painting, Parrish was prolific over the course of his productive years, from his children's books of the turn of the century, to his famous prints of androgynous, lounging nudes during the 1920s, to his calendar landscapes of the 1930s through the 1960s.
	www.illustration-house.com /bios/parrish_bio.html (159 words)

	Alma Gilbert, Inc.
		The Alma Gilbert is a leading broker for the sale of the original works of Maxfield Parrish, including the spectacular 18 foot long mural the "North Wall Panel" from the former home of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in Old Westbury, Long Island.
		It marked the final effort by Maxfield Parrish to recapture the romanticism the took the country by storm with the 1923 "magnum-opus" painting "Daybreak".
		Maxfield Parrish called Windsor his "home town" for many years, even though his house was actually located across the river in New Hampshire.
	www.almagilbert.com (439 words)

	Maxfield Parrish St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles
		Parrish initially intended to be an architect, but soon shifted to illustration.
		Parrish always worked from photographs that he took himself, except when depicting monsters, elves, and the like.
		Parrish was responsible for several murals as well.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200933 (814 words)

	Responses to "Maxfield Parrish" February 24, 2006
		Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966) lived most of his life in an ivory-tower fantasy in Cornish, New Hampshire.
		Maxfield Parrish: Master of Make-Believe, a retrospective of Parrish's work.
		As for the "Parrish Blue," I have read that we cannot possibly emulate it because some of the materials used to produce it are no longer available.
	www.painterskeys.com /clickbacks/maxfield-parrish.asp (3375 words)

	Review \| Maxfield Parrish
		During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Maxfield Parrish was one of the premier illustrators.
		His painstaking technique and dramatic subject matter were, in my opinion, unparalleled and much of his vision still holds up against current illustrators and their methods.
		Maxfield Parrish Vignettes brings back the impact he had on me the first time I saw his work.
	www.januarymagazine.com /artcult/parrish.html (540 words)

	Welcome to the Telfair Museum of Savannah, Georgia
		During his lifetime, Parrish enjoyed an immense level of popular success due to his consummate mastery of the crafts of painting and illustration, and to the newly developed high-quality color printing techniques that aided the dissemination of reproductions of his work.
		Parrish’s paintings often present pristine, arcadian landscapes enveloped in brilliant light, populated by youthful figures that seem to inhabit a rarefied, timeless world.
		Maxfield Parrish: Master of Make Believe was organized by The Trust for Museum Exhibitions in Washington, D.C., with the assistance of Ms.
	www.telfair.org /ec/exhibitions/upcoming/upcoming_parrish.asp (333 words)

	Global Gallery - Maxfield Parrish - Artist Biography
		With his unique luminescent palette, fantastic and romanticized imagery and compositions which fused photorealism, classical references and a system of complete spatial balance, Maxfield Parrish (1877-1966) is one of America's most celebrated illustrators.
		Inspired to become an artist, Parrish was drawn to the meticulous egg tempera technique of the Old Masters and romantic subjects of the Pre- Raphaelites, both of which shaped his vision and technique which eventually combined naturalism, romanticism and pure fantasy.
		Although for 65 years was one of the best known and successful artists of his time, Parrish's romantic images seemed passe with the Depression of the 30s.
	www.globalgallery.com /artist.bio.php?nm=maxfield+parrish (324 words)

	Maxfield Parrish Prints
		Born Frederic Parrish in Philadelphia in 1870, he later adopted his grandmother’s maiden name- Maxfield- as his middle name and used it in his profession.
		Parrish was commissioned to paint his interpretation of 5 of Field’s poems.
		Parrish continued working in his unique colors, his dreamy unreality and distinctive elegant style until 1962; his famous, unusual shade of blue became his trademark.
	www.myantiquemall.com /AQstories/maxfieldparrish/MaxfieldParrish.html (821 words)

	NMA Exhibitions - Maxfield Parrish Master of Make-Believe
		Featuring more than 80 works from American museums and private collections, Maxfield Parrish: Master of Make-Believe examines Parrish’s career as a painter and illustrator and why he is one of the best-known and beloved American artists of the 20th Century.
		Parrish often experimented with photographic equipment and several of his own photographs have been included in the exhibition.
		Maxfield Parrish: Master of Make-Believe is accompanied by an illustrated exhibition catalogue written by Alma Gilbert-Smith, the exhibition’s guest curator.
	www.nevadaart.org /exhibitions/exhibition_display.php?id=22 (787 words)

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