O’Keefe had a nervous breakdown soon after dropping off the project. The mural’s artist, Maxfield Parrish, was a Quaker and teetotaler who was hesitant to decorate a watering hole, but he ...

his ambitious murals, his machine-tooled maquettes and the lonely landscapes he painted into his 90s. After showing in Philadelphia through September 25, "Maxfield Parrish: 1870-1966" will travel ...

The backdrop to New York’s 20th century cocktail scene was hand-painted. After years of minimalist bar design, the frescoes ...

as was Maxfield Parrish’s,” said Palmer-Smith, who noted that Astor never acknowledged how he’d been portrayed. In 1933, Rivera, then one of the most famous mural painters in the world ...