Autumn 1995 The Art of Enchantment, by Stephanie H. Plunkett
“Now the great thing about illustrating a classic is that it is alive. When you read it the scenes-character, setting, mood-jump right off the page, metamorphosed into pictures which are complete and perfect to the last detail…”
Maxfield Parrish, by Linda Szekely
Maxfield Parrish, 1870-1966, was one of the most prominent and successful illustrators of the Golden Age of Illustration. This era, 1880 to 1920, was an age of mass-market printed media.Tom Sawyer Tells a Story
When Norman Rockwell was invited in 1935 to illustrate the children’s classic Tom Sawyer, he went where no other Mark Twain illustrator had gone before-to Hannibal, Missouri. Norman wanted to capture the authentic details of Mark Twain’s boyhood town.