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Article: The magic of Maxfield Parrish.(illustrator)
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- Highlights for Children
- Article date:
- September 1, 1997
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Imagine a painting of a castle, of high mountains and sheer cliffs, of bright blue sky and fluffy white clouds. In this picture, the light seems to shine through the painting like sunlight through a stained-glass window.
Magic? That's what people said when they saw the paintings of Maxfield Parrish, one of the most famous illustrators of this century. They thought he mixed some magical ingredient into his paints to make them glow with a light of their own.
From 1894 to 1960, Parrish's paintings appeared as magazine covers, book illustrations, seed packets, advertisements, prints, calendars, posters, and elaborately decorated candy boxes. Thousands of ...