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Maxfield Parrish's Edison Mazda Calendars
7 days ago | By Gurney Journey
The Edison lightbulb company commissioned American illustrator Maxfield Parrish to create paintings for a series of calendars, which were published starting in 1921. The theme was the history of humanity's relationship to light. The calendars were extremely popular, in part because they came out during a time when electricity was making its way to rural America.
The name Mazda comes from Ahura Mazda, the chief deity of Zoroastrianism, which divided the world into realms of light and darkness.
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