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<font size="2" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <B>MAXFIELD PARRISH
(1870-1966)</B> was a unique figure in American art, not belonging to
any school, part traditionalist, part inventor, sometime illustrator
of gnomes and dragons, other times finding inspiration in the oak trees
of his New Hampshire environs.<BR>
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A meticulous craftsman, Parrish's idiosyncratic painting method involved
applying numerous layers of thin, transparent oil, alternating with
varnish over stretched paper, yielding a combination of great luminosity
and extraordinary detail. In his hands, this method gives the effect
of a glimpse through a window....except that the scene viewed is from
the fairy tale world.<BR>
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In spite of the long time it took to perfect a painting, Parrish was
prolific over the course of his productive years, from his children's
books of the turn of the century, to his famous prints of androgynous,
lounging nudes during the 1920s, to his calendar landscapes of the 1930s
through the 1960s.<BR>
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<B><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">[<I>The Little Peach</I>
from Poems of Childhood, 1904, oil on paper, 18.25 x 12.25"]</font></B><BR>
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