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Maxfield Parrish
(1870-1966) |
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long lifetime, Maxfield Parrish created and painted a world of his
own. As a child he made careful drawings of figures, cutting around
their outlines and mounting the silhouetted shapes. This flat almost
two-dimensional treatment was later carried over into his mural
decorations, book and magazine covers, and advertisements. He used
rich, sumptuous colors, and was famous for his especially luminous "Maxfield
Parrish blue." By the 1920’s, literally millions of households had
Parrish prints on the wall, most notably the iconic Daybreak.
In the 1930’s Parrish shifted entirely to landscapes which were
published as calendar illustrations for Edison Mazda and Brown &
Bigelow. |
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| Young America Writes the
Declaration of Independence |
1909 |
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Oil on paper,
16 inches x 16 inches |
| Collier's, July 3, 1909, cover. |
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