the art and life of eunice parsons

May 21, 2011

the lumber room

eunice, with carol smith-larson and others, listens to the host Sarah Miller Meigs

May 06, 2011

April 30, 2011

tucking into some mussels at sal's kitchen

April 25, 2011

April 11, 2011

it was a great show

see a selection from the march show in the office gallery through the end of the month

March 21, 2011

the sunday artist's reception was well attended

roger, mardy and bonnie

bill, jon and george

March 07, 2011

new year, new work

"Louie Louis" @ 12x16gallery
March 3 - 27

February 20, 2011

new work is at the framers

February 01, 2011

January 11, 2011

at january first friday reception

with ray, carol and liz

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.