Thursday 31 January 2019

The Parrish in winter

White Birches


Since the weather's so cold, let's enjoy some of Maxfield Parrish's luminous winter landscapes...

Moonlit Night: Winter

Parrish (1870-1966) spent most of his life as a commercial illustrator - magazines, advertisments, calendars, children's books etc. - before ending his career as a landscape artist. He was immensely prolific and made an absolute fortune from his work, which was incredibly popular with the general public: the most popular art print of the 20th Century is his Daybreak of 1922.

He achieved his rich effects through careful layering of paints and varnishes. His snowscapes are just psychedelic!

Dusk


Christmas Eve

Christmas Morning

Deep Snow

Lull Brook: Winter
At Close of Day
White Birches: Winter

Winter Sunrise

2 comments:

Unknown said...

This reminded me to finally Google this commercial. I always loved it for the Maxfield Parrish-like imagery. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIIU2JvoMX4

Janine Ashbless said...

Oh - I've never seen that! Wow!

Now i want chocolate...