Roberta Reynolds Parke (1862-1948)

Roberta Reynolds Parke
Scene: ” Still Life ”
Size 25 1/8″ x 30″ ( 28 3/8″ x 33 1/4″ framed ) ………$1,395.00 Canadian

Roberta Reynolds Parke was both an educator and artist.

Born -January 20, 1862 in Lanark Illinois as Jennie Roberta Reynolds. She was educated at the Geneseo Normal School, Oberlin College, Radcliffe College, University at Buffalo where she received a B.A. Degree and later a Masters in Fine Arts from Stetson University in DeLand Florida

1880 she taught school in East Otto, NY and stayed with her Aunt Elizabeth Reynolds and Uncle Luzern Slocum

1899 -1925 taught at Masten Park High School and lived in Buffalo

1903 married Benjamin Rush Parke, MD-Civil War veteran

1910 Benjamin dies of a cerebral hemorrhage

1912 Bought house on Vaughn Street, Springville NY as a summer home

1930 Graduated from Stetson University in DeLand, Florida with a Masters in Fine Arts

May 31, 1948 died in Springville and is buried in Maplewood Cemetery

Biography courtesy of Jeanne Fornes