| Priscilla
(Innes) Patrone, 77, semi-abstract painter, teacher, demonstrator and designer
died on May 10, 2002 at Kennebunk Nursing Center after a long struggle with
cancer.
Patrone was born
in Brighton, Mass. and graduated from Needham High School and Katharine
Gibbs School in Boston. She worked as an office administrator and designer
in the advertising, publishing and medical fields in Boston until she married
Cass J. Patrone. With the encouragement of her husband, she founded Needham
Art Center in the early 1960s. In addition to managing her home and the
thriving business, Patrone was active in the Needham Art Association and
became an accomplished palette knife painter and a fine instructor.
She moved to
Wells in 1980 where she immersed herself in the art world of southern Maine,
finding a kindred spirit in the work and instruction of Ogunquit semi-abstract
painter, Val Thelin. In the mid-1980s, Patrone moved to a home/studio of
her own design in Kennebunkport where she continued painting, teaching and
exhibiting. With the innate sense of design she demonstrated in all graphic
mediums, she conceived, drafted and painted the murals which enliven the
walls at Southern Maine Medical Center in Biddeford.
Patrone was a
founding member of the Art Guild of the Kennebunks, a founder and coordinator
of the Celebration of the Arts event held in the Kennebunks in the 1990s,
a member of the Ogunquit Art Association, the Copley Society of Boston,
where she was designated a Copley Master, and a former member of the New
England Watercolor Society through which much of her work was exhibited.
She also exhibited at Allied Artists of America, University of New England,
Art East of Rye, New Hampshire, River Tree Arts, Kennebunk and the Bush
Presidential Library and Museum in Texas. Her work has won countless awards.
The artist is
survived by one brother, George Innes of Canaan, N.H.; three nieces, a nephew,
an adopted son and daughter, Philip Patrone of Roanoke, Va. and Nancy Shaw
of Framingham, Mass.; and three grandchildren. |
