the art and life of eunice parsons: the southeast examiner article

September 09, 2011

the southeast examiner article

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1 comment:

mom of fab five said...: ok grandma, i am sure that you are not checking this blog but hopefully Cary can pass on the thoughts. I found the blog from this article--really fun to see your different work through out the years--amazing that at 95 you still getting down on the floor to create. That is an inspriration! I still remember you tearing off billboard paper in Europe and putting it in your purse--what is one mans garbage is another persons art...much love. Leigh Ann; March 13, 2012

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.