Maxfield Parrish

Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966) was an illustrator and painter whose work ranged from black and white illustrations to magazine covers (including Life) and murals. His 1922 painting Daybreak is his best known piece, with prints outselling Andy Warhol and Leonardo da Vinci. He used cobalt blue so often that the color is sometimes referred to as "Parrish blue."
Parrish illustrated L. Frank Baum's 1897 book Mother Goose in Prose, and his art (including character designs) was utilized for Mother Goose Stories. In a 1990 Disney Channel preview, Brian Henson discussed how the show's style was based on Parrish (with a close-up of one of Parrish's paintings, from a biography of him, to demonstrate the influence on the backgrounds as well).
The painting seen in the Delvian temple in the Farscape episode "Rhapsody in Blue" is based on Parrish's painting The Old Glen Mill.Farscape Starburst Edition DVD. Volume 1.2. "Cool Farscape Facts" special feature.
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