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Beyond The Blue : The Art Of Maxfield Parrish.(Illustration)
In late afternoon on icy winter days, an unearthly blue appears over Mount Ascutney overlooking the Connecticut River Valley in Vermont. The blue is deeper than any ocean, airier than any cloud. Suggestive of an infinite twilight, it seems to offer a window into some private Arcadia beyond the horizon. This cobalt color, though often captured on one artist's canvases, is rarely seen in museums. Instead, for more than 80 years, it has graced prints and calendars in living rooms, dens and especially college dorms.
"Oh, they're a-hanging Maxfield Parrish in the village," rang a witty campus ballad in the 1920s. And in prints hung on dorm walls across America, that ...
- Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966): romance and fantasy.
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques November 1, 1995 700+ words
...print or book illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. Parrish's lush coloristic...than it did a century ago. Maxfield Parrish studied the techniques of the...unique directions to his legacy. Maxfield Parrish died in 1966 at 'The Oaks...
- Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau Announces Special Summer Hotel...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire May 24, 1999 700+ words
...popular artists of this century: Maxfield Parrish. To complement this exhibit...Academy of Fine Arts is mounting "Maxfield Parrish, 1870-1966," an historic...present "The Contemporaries of Maxfield Parrish" tours, featuring paintings...
- Maxfield Parrish - a man for his age.(artist)
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Ledes, Allison Eckardt July 1, 1999 700+ words
Maxfield Parrish was one of the best known and most...locations for the show, which is entitled Maxfield Parrish, 1870-1966, will be listed in Calendar. Born Frederick Maxfield Parrish in Philadelphia in 1870, he elected...
- THE TIMELESS ART OF MAXFIELD PARRISH.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Saturday Evening Post March 1, 2000 700+ words
...it. During the early 1900s, Maxfield Parrish was one of the three most popular...historians estimate that by 1925, a Maxfield Parrish print could be found in one...at the time--illustrator Maxfield Parrish and glassmaker Louis Comfort...
- Granddaughter of artist Maxfield Parrish to help launch collection. (News).(of...
- Magazine article from: Home Accents Today January 1, 2002 700+ words
...GRANDDAUGHTER of American artist Maxfield Parrish will help lighting manufacturer...to customer demand. Joanna Maxfield Parrish will meet lighting and home...photos and discuss his work. The Maxfield Parrish Museum collection offers lamps...
- Those Maxfield Parrish Blues.(Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,...
- Magazine article from: The Horn Book Magazine HEARN, MICHAEL PATRICK January 1, 2000 700+ words
...by one standard?" demanded Maxfield Parrish back in 1907, when the Metropolitan...work in a splendid new show, "Maxfield Parrish, 1870-1966." Its first...In 1936, Time declared that Maxfield Parrish was one of "the three most...
- Maxfield Parrish Composers' Competition at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 31, 1999 700+ words
...Middleman, will present the Maxfield Parrish Composers' Competition Concert...composed in conjunction with the Maxfield Parrish retrospective on view through...contemporary musical styles. Maxfield Parrish, an Academy alum, was deeply...
- Maxfield Parrish. (illustrator and artist)(includes bibliography, class...
- Magazine article from: School Arts Bradford, Blake, D. April 1, 1997 700+ words
...s world. Creating the Glow Maxfield Parrish painted Sinbad Plots Against...point of losing spontanaiety. Parrish would laboriously construct a...Artist Biography Frederick Maxfield Parrish was born in Philadelphia in 1870...
