Parker’s work has been seen in group and solo exhibitions across the nation over the past 80 years and is represented in numerous public and private collections.  After residing and painting in Paris (mid-20th C) he returned to the University of Iowa where he completed an MFA degree (1960), after which he taught painting through the ‘60s at Wisconsin State University, Whitewater and Art History at the Ecole de Louvre, Paris.  He moved his studio to NYC 1969, where he exhibited regularly at the 55 Mercer Gallery and taught painting at NYU.  In 1975 he moved to Los Angeles where he painted and designed residences as a founding principle in SAGE DESIGN.  He moved to Springfield in 1980 as Chair of the Drury University Art Department, charged with the founding of the Hammons School of Architecture.  He remained at Drury for the next 35 years, interrupted by a year teaching painting at Bard College and a residency at Grotte Lascaux in southern France.  Throughout his lengthy career he has been engaged as a painter, sculptor, designer, teacher and as a banjo picker (known as Col. Tom).