Mother and Daughter: Textiles and Paintings

When

Saturday June 2, 2018: 9:00am to Thursday July 12, 2018: 9:00pm

Where

Downtown Library: Lower Level Display Cases

Description

Pauline Parker started painting as a girl growing up in Alton, Illinois, taking her paints out to practice on her hometown. When she and her husband Gilbert were stationed in Chicago during World War II, she took summer classes at the Chicago Art Institute. Her work was selected for many of their annual international exhibitions. After the war, Gilbert built the family a prairie style house north of Chicago, filled with paintings, sculpture, photography, music, mobiles and three daughters. Pauline continued to paint all her life, then, in her seventies, she also took up quilt making, a craft she’d learned from her mother and aunts as a child. The quilts gave her a mural-sized format and into this she poured her stories about women, myths, nature and a pure sense of fantasy.