"Maxfield Parrish, whom we must always thank for producing one of the most
thoroughly charming of American posters 'Century, Midsummer', is ever original,
bizarre, and rich in conception. One of his many
characteristics is a love
of detail, with a quaintly elaborate technique. He revels in intricate plays of
light, shade and shadow, and in the production of even textures with occasional
gently graded tones"(C. Matlock Price
p.146) "A master of make-believe, he enchanted millions with his own
vision of paradise…Maxfield Parrish was the common man's Rembrandt. When
a Parrish print was placed in a department store window, crowds gathered to admire
it. A short, puckish man with piercing blue eyes, Parrish painted the stuff dreams
are made of. His trademarks were lush gardens, ecstatic women and his famous 'Parrish
blue', the colour skies must surely be in any Eden worth the name"(Smithsonian,
July 1999) |
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