| The Beach Street Cafe is home to a large
variety of originals and reproductions of Maxfield Parrish's work, and one of the largest
displays of Parrish works in the world. |
| Maxfield Parrish was a turn of the century
artist, born in Philadelphia in 1870. He was one of the better known artists during the
early years of the century. He illustrated for a variety of magazines including Colliers,
Scribners, and Life. During the thirties Parrish was considered one of the three most
popular artists to create expensive color reproductions; Van Gogh and Cezanne were the
other two. Maxfield Parrish painted until the age of ninety one; he was ninety five when
he died in 1966. |
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