Kitsch meets the sublime. (illustrator Maxfield Parrish)

From: Art in America | Date: March 1, 1996| Author: Johnson, Ken | Copyright information

Parrish (1870-1966) is often derided for the way he depicted landscapes in a lush, romanticized style that pandered to popular culture. However, a recent traveling retrospective of his work highlights the hallucinatory, almost surreal aspects of his best pieces.

The illustrator Maxfield Parrish devoted himself heart and soul to delighting popular taste for pictorial beauty and made tons of money doing so. This has not endeared him to our artistic intelligentsia. At best, he has bee...

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