Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Maxfield Parrish's Work


Daybreak (Landscape) is regarded as the most popular art print of the 20th century, based on number of prints made: one for every four American homes.


Alberich (The Ring of Nibelung)


Old King Cole (Nursery Rhymes)


Dinky Bird (Poems of Childhood)


Sleeping Beauty (Myths and Fairy Tales)


The Fisherman and the Genie (Arabian Nights)

Maxfield Parrish's major works can be divided into six groups:
Arabian Nights (illustrations from 1909 and 1923), Myths and Fairy Tales, Poems of Childhood (illustrations from 1904), Nursery Rhymes, The Ring of Nibelung (illustrations from 1898) and Landscapes.

Selected Books Illustrated

  • Baum, L. Frank. Mother Goose in Prose. Chicago: Way & Williams, 1897.
  • Lee, Albert. The Knave of Hearts: A Fourth of July Comedietta. New York: Russel, 1897.
  • Grahame, Kenneth. The Golden Age. London: John Lane at Bodley Head, 1899.
  • Grahame, Kenneth. Dream Days. London: John Lane at Bodley Head, 1899.
  • Field, Eugene. Poems of Childhood. New York: Scribners, 1904.
  • Wharton, Edith. Italian Villas and Their Gardens. New York: Century, 1904.
  • Wiggin, Kate Douglas and Nora A. Smith, eds. The Arabian Nights, Their Best-Known Tales. New York: Scribners, 1909.
  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel. A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales for Girls and Boys. New York: Duffield, 1910.
  • Hawthorne, Hildegrade. Lure of the Garden. New York: Century, 1910.
  • Saunders, Louise. The Knave of Hearts. New York: Scribners, 1925.
  • Stein, Ealeen. Troubador Tales. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1929.

Periodicals Illustrated

  • Harper’s Weekly, 1895-1906.
  • Ladies’ Home Journal, 1896-1915, 1920, 1930-1931.
  • Scribner’s Magazine, 1897-1905.
  • Century, 1898-1917.
  • Collier’s, 1904-1913, 1936.

To see more go to:
http://maxfieldparrish.info/
http://parrish.artpassions.net/

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