Maxfield Frederick Parrish ART WANTED

Portrait of Maxfield Frederick Parrish: Photo courtesy of Vanderpoel Art Archives

1870 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - 1966 Plainfield, New Hampshire. Known for: Illustration-romanticized scenes, mural painting.

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One of America's best-known and revered illustrators, especially for children's books and magazines, Maxfield Parrish was born into a Philadelphia Quaker family. His birth name was Frederick Maxfield Parrish, and he later adopted the name Maxfield. His father, Stephen Parrish, was a successful landscape painter and etcher, and he and Maxfield's mother, Elizabeth Bancroft Parrish, encouraged their son's artistic talent. Maxfield's father was his his first teacher, and he took his son to tour the museums of Europe when the boy was only ten, and together they painted and sketched. Initially interested in architecture, young Parrish studied in France, England; at Haverford College; at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; and at Drexel... Read full biography

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New York City, NY

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Gladwyne, PA

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