Above: "Country Barn," a color lithograph by Betty Waldo Parish (1908-1986), created while she was in the WPA's Federal Art Project, ca. 1935-1938. According to a 1968 newspaper article, Parish was "a descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson" ("Art Exhibits," The Dispatch (Moline, Illinois), March 9, 1968). Parish married Richard Comyn Eames in 1942 and it seems that they had two children. At least one of them followed in their mother's artistic footsteps, Dickon Eames (1945-1997), and Dickon's son, Matthew C. Eames, wrote a book about his father in 2009, "Dickon Eames: An American Sculptor in France." Image courtesy of the General Services Administration and the Baltimore Museum of Art.
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