The Brooklyn Museum has had enough controversy for awhile. So this summer they will present a Maxfield Parrish and William Merritt Chase exhibition – peaceful perfection filled with blue skies and still ponds. Fittingly, both artists had their own experience with giving the public what it wants a hundred year ago. Parrish, for instance, “knew how to market paradise; he understood that in America the beautiful, innocence sells.” – New York Magazine