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| BIOGRAPHY OF MAXFIELD PARRISH |
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Maxfield Parrish, son of etcher and painter Stephen Parris, was an American painter, illustrator, and mural decorator of fame that surpassed his father's. Born in Philadelphia, Parrish was a pupil of Howard Pyle. He is known for his original and highly decorative posters, magazine covers, and book illustrations and for his mural decorations. He has painted murals for the home of the Whitneys in Westbury, NY, the Curtis Publishing Building in Philadelphia, and elsewhere. His glowing colors, especially the blues, are characteristic. He illustrated Mother Goose in Prose, Washington Irving's "Knickerbocker" History of New York, Eugene Field's Poems of Childhood, The Arabian Nights, and many other volumes of children literature. He was admitted to the National Academy of Design in 1906.
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