I’ve always liked Maxfield Parrish, and I have several of his paintings up around the house.
My favorite is Day break. Something about that painting just makes me feel creative.
I mean, I don’t like Charlie Chaplin or Orson Welles, either . . . And of course Norman Rockwell drew all those patriotic, all-American scenes, and you’re a dirty Commie pinko bastard if you object in any way to those, of course. But I still think he wasn’t as good an artist as many contemporary magazine illustrators, such as Parrish and Leyendecker, for instance.
I’ll give you the hands—but his perspective is frequently off; his scenes are flat and everyone is posed (bodily and facially) in over-the-top vaudeville gestures—perhaps, on purpose, to “read” from a magazine rack. here’s a link. He’s not a bad artist; I just think he’s been over-rated because he was so patriotic, and ubiquitous (sorta like Bob Hope, actually . . …).
Parrish, I learned of through Robert A. Heinlein. Another thing I have to thank him and remember him in my prayers for.
But I’ve got the same perspective on Rockwell as Seriousart. “Saywhaaa?”
I love Parrish’s Old King Cole mural at the King Cole Bar in The St. Regis hotel.
Trivia: This the bar where the Bloody Mary was originally created!
I love Parrish - I have a poster of his “Sunrise” on the wall behind me in my office.
I love it - it’s just so peaceful!