Maxfield Parrish Art Prints

Maxfield Parrish is regarded as one of America's most celebrated illustrators. Painting historic and romanticized subjects, he often used his wife, Lydia Austin, and later, his companion Susan Lewin, as his sensuous models. His father, Stephen Parrish, a well known Philadelphia engraver, started Parrish on an artistic path at a young age. Almost immediately, Parrish was drawn to the egg tempera technique of the Old Masters and the romantic subjects of the Pre-Raphaelites. He went on to study art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Art where he was exposed to master illustrator Howard Pyle. It was there that he began using photography to plan his illustrations.