@libearies: “Close of Day” (1941) By Maxfield Parrish Although Maxfield Parrish painted landscapes throughout his career, it was not until the 1930s, shortly after he turned 60, that he announced publicly that he was emancipating himself from the figure, and devoting himself instead to pure landscape painting. This shift away from what he had described to the Associated Press as his pictures of "girls on rocks", which had won him such celebrity and financial success, seems to have been prompted by a convergence of factors.