{"id":82,"date":"2016-05-05T03:29:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T03:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/?page_id=82"},"modified":"2016-05-05T16:53:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T16:53:58","slug":"a-family-of-artists","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/art-collection\/edith-barretto-parsons-duck-baby\/a-family-of-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"A Family of Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_83\" style=\"width: 455px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-83\" class=\"size-full wp-image-83\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-04-at-11.25.59-PM.png\" alt=\"Photo of Edith Barretto Parsons Courtesy of Serena Pelissier\" width=\"445\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-04-at-11.25.59-PM.png 445w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-04-at-11.25.59-PM-300x237.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-04-at-11.25.59-PM-379x300.png 379w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-83\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo of Edith Barretto Parsons<br \/>Courtesy of Serena Pelissier<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Edith Barretto Parsons was born in Halifax, Virginia in 1878 and died in New Canaan, Connecticut in 1956. \u00a0She moved to New Jersey when she was six. She credits this move as her inspiration to become an artist. From the age of 15, she\u00a0studied at the Art Students\u2019 League in New York City and was apprentice to the famous public memorialist, James Earle Frasier. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 1908 Edith\u00a0married Howard Parsons, a direct descendant of the prolific portrait painter, Rembrandt Peale, best known for his presidential portraits of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. They had one child, a daughter Edith Gilam Parsons, who married Howard French. Edith and Howard had a child, named Serena French, who married Jaime Pelissier, a goldsmith. They too had a child, Kiara. \u00a0Kiara Pelissier is the great-granddaughter of Edith Parsons, and she runs the Pelissier Galleries, which showcases the rich history of her family\u2019s art.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/edith-barretto-parsons-duck-baby\/\">Back to the main page on Edith Barretto Parsons, Duck Baby<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/art-collection\/edith-barretto-parsons-duck-baby\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-21\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2016\/05\/Duck-Baby-Crop-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Duck Baby Crop\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Edith Barretto Parsons was born in Halifax, Virginia in 1878 and died in New Canaan, Connecticut in 1956. \u00a0She moved to New Jersey when she was six. She credits this move as her inspiration to become an artist. From &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/art-collection\/edith-barretto-parsons-duck-baby\/a-family-of-artists\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"parent":80,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-82","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82\/revisions\/139"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}