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The artist and illustrator Maxfield Parrish was a household name during his long and productive lifetime. He was born in 1870 in Philadelphia and died in 1966 in Plainfield, New Hampshire, at 鈥淭he Oaks,鈥� the home he built and lived in for most of his life. In 1891, Parrish began a course of study at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He studied briefly with Howard Pyle at Drexel Institute and then launched a career illustrating books and magazines.

Parrish鈥檚 career coincided with advances in color printing technology. By the 1930s, Parrish realized he could free himself from the restrictions of advertising and magazine work and rely solely on color reproductions of his art. By 1925, it was estimated that one out of every four American households had a Parrish print.

Fantasies and Fairy-Tales is the first traveling exhibition of Parrish鈥檚 color prints, which were made from his original paintings. Included are reproductions of commissions for book illustrations, magazine covers, and advertisements. The works reveal Parrish鈥檚 sense of humor and his eye for graphic design. The subject of this exhibition is the phenomenon of the simultaneous merging of advances in print technology with Parrish鈥檚 singular genius for capturing the imagination of the American public.