the art and life of eunice parsons: an early collage

June 26, 2012

an early collage

Jensen, Eunice

Opening Collage

Collage

23.75 x 18

1969

Signed

Hello,
I am a local art appraiser and I am assisting a corporate client with a fair market appraisal of their art collection. There is a work by Eunice Jensen Parsons in the collection and I was hoping you could help me determine a value for this piece.
Please let me know what you think. Thank you very much for your time and assistance.

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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.