Today is the birthday of Maxfield Parrish, one of the great illustrators form the “Golden Age” of American illustratraton.
For more, see my previous post on Maxfield Parrish, which includes a list of links to galleries of his work and other resources.
I’ve included a few additional resources below that I’ve come across since then, in particular the large reproductions from The Arabian Nights on ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive.
The list on my previous post is the primary one, however, with the most resources and images.
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He’s always been one of my favorites, and still is. I named my first dog Maxfield after him. I was a painting major in college; for a while I even attempted painting with numerous glazes like he did. I was not as successful as he was. The only painting of his I have ever seen in person I hunted down at a bar in San Francisco while on vacation once, it was ‘The Pied Piper.’ It was luminous. Happy Birthday, Maxfield!
One of the very best. I love that Dragon.
Thanks for the post on Parrish. If you’re ever in Santa Cruz, treat yourself to breakfast at The Beach Street Cafe (where I worked when I went to college), they have a mean eggs benedict and quite an impressive Maxfield Parrish collection:
http://www.restauranteur.com/beachstreetcafecom/
…Happy Birthday. He will forever inspire.