Maxfield
Parrish was born in Philadelphia
in 1870. Educated at the the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and
the Drexel Institute, where he studied under Howard
Pyle.
In 1895 Parrish designed his first cover for Harper's
Weekly. As well as working for other magazines such as Collier'sand
Scribner's Magazine. Parrish
provided the art work for posters and advertisements. His greatest
success came with colour prints designed for the mass market. The
Garden of Allah (1919) and Dawn
(1920) sold in very large numbers. Parrish also provided the illustrations
for a large number of books including Poems
of Childhood (1889), Dream Days
(1906) and The Knave of Arts (1925).
In the 1930s Parrish's work, criticised as
being too sentimental, went out of fashion and he retired to paint
landscapes. Maxfield Parrish died at the age of 95 in 1966.
Maxfield Parrish, Egypt (1902)
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