the art and life of eunice parsons

eunice parsons is a collage artist living and working in portland, oregon- she is 95

February 13, 2010

laura russo



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February 09, 2010

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This is Eunice

This is Eunice

This is a blog about Eunice...

Eunice Parsons, born in 1916 in Loma, Colorado, grew up in Chicago.  As a child, she drew constantly.  At ten, she attended lectures at the Art Institute of Chicago and was exposed to the magnificent collections there under the tutelage of an enthusiastic instructor.  After marriage at age 20, she moved with her husband to Portland.  By 1948, she was raising three children while her merchant seaman husband was away for long periods of time. Responding to her continued need to make art, she set up a studio in the her basement and began to draw her children and their friends.   Frustration at trying to teach herself art led her to enroll at the Museum Art School. She was 34 years old and and desired nothing more than to become a full-time artist.
Eunice went on to teach at the Museum School from 1957 - 1979.
Through the years she has been a painter, a printmaker and a tilemaker, but since the early 1970s Eunice has worked in the medium for which she is best known- collage.


From the studio

From the studio

Eunice says...

"You just have to do it!  If you can envision it, if you can see it in your mind, then you can make it happen."

Links

  • 12x16gallery
  • 2004 interview with eva lake
  • 2009 kboo art focus interview
  • art adventure gallery
  • art focus kboo radio
  • bonnie hull
  • eva lake
  • fritz photo
  • hallie ford museum of art
  • luke art
  • mark humpal fine art
  • on the way
  • oranges sardines
  • saward collection

art stars

art stars
eunice with eva lake at the kboo studios, portland, july 2009

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