Education
She apprenticed with James Earle Fraser.
She apprenticed with James Earle Fraser.
She sculpted figures for the 1902 Saint Louis Exposition"s Liberal Arts Building, and in 1908 showed her sculpture Earth Mother at the National Academy of Design. Duck Baby, beginning a series of garden sculptures for which she is best known today, was the popular hit of the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition. The exposition handbook stated: "In the presence of so much that is weighty and powerful, the popularity of Duck Baby is a significant and touching indication of the world"s hunger for what is cheerful and mirth-provoking." The same may be said of Turtle Baby and Frog Baby, which forms the centerpiece of the small works collection at Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina.
Parsons also created portrait busts and public monuments including a World War I memorial in Summit, New Jersey, and a fountain dedicated to John Galloway in Memphis, Tennessee.