the art and life of eunice parsons: the hallie ford show opens today

Eunice Parsons: Collages
July 25-September 20, 2009
The Portland artist Eunice Parsons has been called an American master of the art of collage. Parsons’ interest in the interplay of words and phrases and her travels to Europe and the Far East are reflected in her collage work. Organized by Professor Roger Hull, the exhibition features a range of collages created over the past few decades and includes work from public and private collections throughout the region.

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.

the art and life of eunice parsons

July 25, 2009

the hallie ford show opens today

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