Maxfield Parrish

New York: Watson-Guptill Publications. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1973. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. 0823038971 . Publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine and cover, yellow endpapers. Profusely illustrated with 64 full-page, full-color plates and hundreds of B&W illustrations. At the turn of the 20th Century a small group of artists, including Maxfield Parrish and N. C. Wyeth, were leading their contemporaries in imagination, scope, quantity and quality of their work. Parrish's work, when seen in person, has a glow and magical sense of light unlike almost any other paintings. He painted using a brilliant white ground on his canvas and then layered the colors, using one color at a time, with each one separated by a layer of vanish. As a result, light seems to travel from the surface of the painting through the colors to the white ground and is then reflected back to the viewer. The paintings seem to glow. Ludwig's book presents an excellent description of Parrish's process and provides an extensive selection of his work.. The volume is in virtually perfect condition; unmarked, tight, square, bright, and clean. The unclipped dust jacket is also in excellent condition, with no tears except for very minor wear at the head of the spine. FINE/NEAR FINE. . Color and B&W Illustrations. 4to 11" - 13" tall. 223, (1) pp .