Many of you may remember Pam Parry, our former Executive Director of many
years. As Lee Sorensen announce a few weeks ago, her husband, art
professor, Lee Parry, passed away recently. We wanted to share his
obituarary from the Arizona Daily Star newspaper in Tucson with you all. I
attended the memorial service on Sunday with other Arizona ARLIS/NA
members...it was a lovely, moving, and heart-felt service of a life
well-led. Mary Graham
PARRY, Ellwood Comly, III, 64, died September 11, 2005, in Wilmington,
N.C., after a courageous four-and-a-half year battle with cancer. Lee was
born August 9, 1941, in Abington, Pa., and attended Meadowbrook School and
William Penn Charter High School. He received a B.A. from Harvard College,
an M.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. in art
history from Yale University. Lee was a nationally recognized scholar who
specialized in the study of 19th-century landscape painting, particularly
the art of the Hudson River School painter Thomas Cole. He was the author
of two books, The Image of the Indian and the Black Man in American Art,
1590-1900 (1974) and The Art of Thomas Cole: Ambition and Imagination
(1988), and of numerous scholarly articles and essays. Lee taught art
history at Columbia University (1969-1975), the University of Iowa
(1976-1981), and at the University of Arizona since fall 1981, where he
also gave classes in the Humanities Seminars program. He served as interim
director of the Tucson Museum of Art in 1987, while on sabbatical from the
university. Lee was a member of numerous boards and committees and was
especially proud of his service on the Board of Trustees and Advisory Board
of the Tucson Museum of Art, the University of Arizona Public Art Advisory
Committee, and the Editorial Board of The American Art Journal. In student
evaluations, Lee's teaching style was most often described as
"enthusiastic," a word that sums up his entire approach to life, including
his love of art and teaching, his passion for gardening, and his devotion
to family, friends, and colleagues. He will be deeply missed by all who
knew and loved him. Lee was preceded in death by his parents and by his
younger sister, Deborah Parry Clancy. He is survived by his beloved wife,
Pamela and his cherished children, Janna, Evan, and Taylor; his older
sister, Carolyn Parry Decker and husband David Decker, of Chester Springs,
Pa.; his brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Tim and Carroll Clancy, of
Raleigh, N.C.; and by several nieces and nephews. A special thanks is
extended to Dr. Ahmann and the nurses and staff at the Arizona Cancer
Center for their kind and excellent care of Lee for the past four years. In
lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be sent to the UA Public
Art Program (c/o UA Museum of Art, Box 210002, Tucson AZ 85721) and
designated for a commission in Lee's memory. A memorial service will be
held at the University of Arizona Center for Creative Photography at 2:00
p.m. on Sunday, October 16, 2005.
Mary Graham
Head Librarian
Arizona State Museum
University of Arizona
P.O. Box 210026
Tucson, AZ 85721-0026
520/621-4695
520/621-2976 fax
http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu
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