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Parrish, Maxfield Biography Maxfield Parrish 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. In the early 1920s, when his works Garden of Allah and Daybreak were reproduced as art prints, he quickly became one of the best known artists in America. His unmistakable paintings - characterized by 'Parrish Blue' water and skies, luminescent rocks and hills, and exquisite young women draped in flowing, classically inspired garments - are infused with a romantic Eden-like quality so entrancing that today's reproductions elicit the same infectious enthusiasm as when the prints first appeared. In the 1920s, one out of four American homes had his world of make-believe hanging on their walls. A survey taken in 1925 in America showed that Van Gogh, Cezanne and Maxfield Parrish were thought to be the three greatest artists of all time and Parrish's art images on posters, calendars, magazine covers and book illustrations have made his name a household word thereafter. Today, Maxfield Parrish's art works are in the collections of many museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard, and his artwork is once again experiencing an enthusiastic revival. Maxfield Parrish's oil painting Daybreak, one of the most reproduced art images in history, recently sold for $4.3 million, setting a record price for an illustration and Maxfield Parrish art prints rank among the most popular in the world and are distributed in 42 countries. You can buy Maxfield Parrish fine art reproduction oil paintings at Galerie Dada. Just click on the 'Back' button. |
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