'Erotic innocence' | From children's books to lounging nudes, SDMA exhibit profiles prolific artist Maxfield Parrish

"Maxfield Parrish began his career making illustrations and book covers for children, like the charming Humpty-Dumpty image for L. Frank Baum's first book, 'Mother Goose in Prose.' A few years later, when his visions of women and girls in enchanted landscapes became the rage, he had performed a clever shift in strategy, making children's art for adults." (more at link)

Parrish Art Images - Maxfield Parrish Maxfield Parrish art from Poems of Childhood and elsewhere.

Maxfield Parrish Online Maxfield Parrish [American Golden Age Illustrator, 1870-1966] Guide to pictures of works by Maxfield Parrish in art museum sites and image archives ...

Maxfield Parrish Biography MAXFIELD PARRISH (1870-1966) was a unique figure in American art, not belonging to any school, part traditionalist, part inventor, sometime illustrator of ...
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