the art and life of eunice parsons

April 16, 2012

April 05, 2012

April 01, 2012

February 29, 2012

February 22, 2012

still more new work

February 14, 2012

with carol at the february artists' reception

January 14, 2012

down and dirty

one of the fourteen new works for the march show at 12x16gallery

December 06, 2011

November 26, 2011

My mother was a childhood friend of Eunice's in the 1920's in Chicago. Eunice visited my parents in the mid '50's and gave my mother the attached. They are all signed "Eunice Jensen." Perhaps Eunice remembers them.

Regards,

Jeff

N, IL

November 08, 2011

artists reception

with guest artist claire dannenbaum at 12x16gallery

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.