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Charles Parks

Charles Cropper Parks (1922 - 2012) was active/lived in Delaware.  Charles Parks is known for Religious figure and portrait sculpture, public monuments.

Following is the obituary of the artist from the Doherty Funeral Home, Wilmington Delaware.

Charles Cropper Parks
10/25/2012

Charles Parks, age 90, Delaware's nationally treasured sculptor, died on Thursday, October 25, at the Methodist Country House.

Born in 1922 in a modest farmhouse in Onancock, Va, the son of George W. Parks and Lee Cropper Parks, he began his education in a one-room schoolhouse in Talleyville, Delaware.  His formal art instruction began in 1938 when he was in the tenth grade.  During the onset of World War II, Parks joined the Air Force as a Second Lieutenant. In 1942 he married Inge Ruehl of Wilmington, an accomplished pianist, who was to be the mother of four talented children.  In 1947 he entered the University of Delaware to resume his studies.  The next year he began four years of study at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, juggling the roles of student, machinist, sculptor, husband and father.  By 195   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7382 characters.]  Artist bio

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