Who is Maxfield Parrish - American Golden Age Illustrator - Parrish Art
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Maxfield Parrish - American Golden Age Illustrator, 1870-1966]
Born Frederick Parrish in Philadelphia in 1870, who later would be called Maxfield Parrish left this world on March 30, 1966. While here he blessed us with his passion and imagination that is unforgettable.
Looking at his work I want to delve into the moment he painted each piece. They remind me of a fairy tale come to life. He has influenced so many since, you see it all the time in other peoples art. Who better could they model in regards to creating a world that feels nebulous to us and yet tangible at the same time. You just want to climb right in the picture and live there, find peace there or slay the dragon. In some of his pieces there are very strong overtones, passion and excitement abound. Ahhh to live inside of the mind of Maxfield Parrish.
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Quotes by Maxfield Parrish
I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace! Current appreciation of my work is a bit highbrow, I've always considered myself a popular artist.Maxfield Parrish
It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color.
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Thank you for allowing me to use colors as rich and deep as you please. I had always wanted to do so, yet was never allowed because of the color capabilities of our lithographers. Now that I have done it, I don't think I'll ever go back.
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The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.
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There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish - whose prints would not pay the printer. The question of judgment is a puzzling one.
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Maxfield Parrish at a Glance
Maxfield Parrish (July 25, 1870 - March 30, 1966) was an American painter and illustrator.
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The wind in your hair, billowing clouds in the sky, the peak of a mountain high, feel like you could just fly? We do. Maxfield Parrish... absolute genius.
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I call this my dream bag. I dream of getting away from it all - to somewhere exactly like this place depicted in Parrish's print. Room for a toothbrush, flannel jammies and slippers and lots of books.

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"Leonardo da Vinci - Scientist & Inventor Sculpt His Way Far Beyond Brilliant Conclusions"
"Leonardo da Vinci - Scientist & Inventor Sculpt His Way Far Beyond Brilliant Conclusions"
There were melodies past the rhythm of the expected
that caused my heart to echo applauds.
I clapped my hands together for I'd found my space there.
A space that I'd been longing for.
I pulled off my mask
and all my mental clothes
felt the freedom of deliverance
embraced my zeal for creativity and my own being
to be known.
I will not be contained I screamed
Hear me!
Seducing the blaze that strokes the vintage stranger
near ignored.
Let me explore artists of yore
Warhol, Picasso, Klimt, Modigliani
Michelangelo
my reaching and reasoning being.
I love their passion.
Matisse, remind me of the colors and set my instincts in focus.
Help me feel the pigments with the eagerness of a lover.
Let me call on Leonardo da Vinci
scientist and inventor
sculpting his way beyond brilliant conclusions.
The depth of him
unquenchable curiosity
botanist, architect, mathematician,
musician.
Illegitimate son of a peasant woman
back in the day when those roots
did not bring one
too many dimensions.
I will not be contained I scream
looking at da Vinci and where my own life
should
or could
be.
Ah Leonardo da Vinci what a mentor
dear muse you are.
This is my time
anyone's time
to reach beyond what was understood yesterday
yes, reach beyond brilliant conclusions even.
This is the day and perfect time.
The acquisition of knowledge
there
before us all.
How monumental
stunning and how truly amazing
this road
glorious opportunity
there directly in front of all of us.
by Kathy Ostman-Magnusen
copyright 2009
Photo is by Dennis Magnusen of an orchid in our yard. Copyright 2009
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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. That made him almost 14 when he decorated the letter below - so take heart all you young doodlers. He illuminated many such letters that he wrote from London and Paris during 1884-86. John Goodspeed Stuart has collected many of them in his fascinating book, Young Maxfield Parrish (1992). As much as the letters show the pure "boy" in Parrish (don't you just love the weeping eyeball and "DUDE"?), other images from the book show a precocious talent for... - The Parrish House - Maxfield Parrish Biography
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Maxfield Parrish (1870 - 1966) was an American painter and illustrator. Born Frederick Maxfield Parrish in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he began drawing for his own amusement early in his life. He went on to pursue a career that was to last for many decades and effectively shape the Golden Age of Illustration, and the future of American visual art in general. Launched by a commission to illustrate Kenneth Grahame's The Walls Were as of Jasper in 1897, his repertoire was to include many prestigious projects such as Eugene Field's Poems of Childhood (1904) and the traditional Arabian Nights (1909).
Androgynous nudes in fantastical settings were an often-recurring theme. He continued in this venue for the rest of his life, living comfortably off the royalties brought in by the production of posters and calendars ... - Parrish Art Images - Maxfield Parrish
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