Frank Parker, at 88; his art adorned works by his friend Robert Lowell

By Tom Long

Globe Staff / March 13, 2005

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Francis Stanley Parker was an artist whose life was his masterpiece. Mr. Parker, 88, who died of Parkinson's disease March 2 in his home in Cambridge, was a Boston blueblood with a working man's wardrobe and a poet's disregard for convention. He created lovely impressionistic paintings that were once exhibited in the Boston Athenaeum , but is perhaps best remembered ... (Full article: 960 words)