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(pub. 9.28.2011) 32 pages
A True Tale with A Cherry On Top
A uthor: Lois V. Harris
C haracter: Maxfield Parrish
O verview from the jacket flap:
"An extraordinarily gifted artist, Maxfield Parrish helped shape the Golden Age of illustration with a career lasting more than half a century... Parrish grew up painting at an easel and visiting Europe to study the Old Masters. His imaginative style and lively colors decorated books, advertisements, candy boxes, calendars, and cards. By 1925, prints of his work hung in millions of homes all across America.
This biography for children contains photographs of the artist and is illustrated with the colorful dreamlands he was known for creating."
This biography for children contains photographs of the artist and is illustrated with the colorful dreamlands he was known for creating."
T antalizing taste:
"The deep shades of blue he created became known as 'Parrish blue.' When asked how he made it, Maxfield said it 'is just ordinary blue you can buy around the corner, but what I put next to it is what makes it what it is.'"
and something more: My favorite painting featured in Lois V. Harris' picture book biography, Maxfield Parrish - Painter of Magical Make-Believe, is "The Lantern Bearers" which highlights Maxfield Parrish's use of vivid blue contrasted with yellow. I was interested to learn in the Credits at the book of the book that this painting is owned by the new Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas.
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