Institutional file, Exhibitions. Maxfield Parrish, 1870-1966.

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Institutional file, Exhibitions. Maxfield Parrish, 1870-1966.

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Brooklyn Museum Libraries & Archives

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Brooklyn Museum of Art. Dept. of Painting and Sculpture.

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Parrish, Maxfield, 1870-1966

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Frederick Parrish was born July 25, 1870 in Philadelphia, PA. He later took a family name, Maxfield, as his middle name. He was an illustrator and commercial artist who designed his first magazine cover for Harper's Weekly in April, 1895. Following that he did pictures and posters for other popular periodicals. His works also became familiar to the public through his illustrations for calendars and advertisements. He was noted for his use of rich colors, especially the shade of blue named for hi...