David Buchanan Parrish (1939–2021) was an American artist who was a part of the photorealism movement.
[3] David Parrish was interested in art from a young age and was encourage by his mother, who was also a painter.
For almost a decade, he worked making technical drawings in the Aerospace industry, including for NASA.
[2] Parrish's first photorealistic work was a drawing based on a photo of jazz musician Miles Davis that he had found in Esquire magazine.
His professors, who were telling him that he should be emulating the non-objective works of Jackson Pollock, Philip Guston, and Willem de Kooning, were angered by the drawing.