William Trost Richards (1833 - 1905)Watercolor. Measure 8 1/2"in H x 12"in W and 13 1/2"in H x 16 3/4"in W with frame. Born: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1870 Died: Plainfield, New Hampshire 1966 Unique Eastern illustrator and painter in Arizona, 1902, noted as colorist of "Maxfield Parrish blue." The son of the Philadelphia etcher and landscape painter Stephen Parrish, Maxfield Parrish was educated at Haverford College, 1888-91. He studied art at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts and was the pupil of Howard Pyle at Drexel Institute, Philadelphia. Early in his career, he had typhoid fever, requiring recuperation away from the East. First, he went to Saranac in the Adirondacks where the winter forced him to give up his water-base inks in favor of oils. Second, he went to sunny Arizona where he was influenced as a colorist. He painted Southwestern landscapes in a style already distinctive in his 1902 illustrations for Century. Third, he went to Italy. Recovered physically, he settled in Windsor, Vermont. Parrish was best known as an illustrator for children's books and magazines. Some of these illustrations, as the 1927 Pueblo Dwelling for "The Home University Bookshelf," were based on his Southwestern experiences. Reproductions of his illustrations were widely collected. A favorite work The Dream Garden was designed by Parrish and executed in Favrile glass by Tiffany as a mosaic mural in 1915. "Insider" favorites were the paintings in the bar of the St. Regis in New York City and in the Palace Bar in San Francisco.

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