MAXFIELD PARRISH (1870-1966)
Morning (detail) | oil on panel 
Cover for Life magazine | April 6, 1922

Bookmark 185 mm | stiff card
published by Pomegranate | CA
         
'Maxfield Parrish 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 extra-
ordinary detail. In his hands, this method gives the effect of a glimpse through
a window ... except that the scene viewed is from the fairy tale world.'
          
Artists' Biographies by Illustration House