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1910. Duffield & Company, 1910. Single offset color print, 5 x 6.5 inches, matted, originally tipped in. Fine. A single illustration by Maxfield Parrish from A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales (1910). Parrish was born Frederick Maxfield Parrish in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1870. His work had a substantial influence on the Golden Age 20th Century book illustration prior to World War I, and on the direction of American visual art in general through World War II. He is famous for his fantastical landscapes and his dazzlingly luminous colors - the shade "Parrish blue" was named after him. Parrish was a painter as well as an illustrator,producing scores of iconic oil paintings throughout his long life. Item #123984
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