The others

A couple of the books in that box were not for me--one about great sailing ships and another about World War I. I might get around to exploring them further but for the time being they'll sit on the other nightstand. Meanwhile, to comment, however briefly on the Maxfield Parrish book: it's a treasure!

Large and heavy, 12" x 9 1/2", "Maxfield Parrish and The American Imagists" by Laurence S. Cutler, Judy Goffman Cutler and the National Museum of American Illustration, is composed of a brief bio of Parrish, more than 200 pages of his illustrations, a very brief chapter about some of the American Imagists (N.C. Wyeth, Howard Pyle, J.C. Leyendecker, Howard Chandler Christy, Charles Dana Gibson and Jessie Wilcox) and a final chapter which goes into greater detail about most of those "illustrators". I was familiar with quite a few of these artists as their work illustrated most of the books I enjoyed reading as a child and whose works were found on the covers of magazines like Collier's and Saturday Evening Post. As a young adult living in Manhattan I had the pleasure of seeing the mural "Old King Cole" in the St. Regis Hotel. I learned from this book that it was recreated in 1906 from an earlier version for the Hotel Knickerbocker and in 1935 was moved to the St. Regis where it is now a "must-see" for visitors to New York.

Maxfield Parrish's colors are intense, the cobalt blue he used still referred to as "Parrish Blue".

"His images were captivating yet powerful, hard to ignore and with a degree of fantasy so arresting that their creator became a legend in his lifetime."

I'll never tire of looking at those presented in this marvelous book.