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PICTURE - place an image here Tile Clocks

(7 clocks have their own name) Four Hands, The Seasons, The Owls, Dandelions, Pets and Flowers, The Blur Garden, and The Frogs.

Artists Ellen Lanyon, John Kearney, Eleanor Coen, Allison Katzman, Francis Chapman, Max Kahn, and many more.

Medium Mosaic Tiles

Location On Second floor outside of nurses office

How did it come to be at Parker? In the late fifties, early sixties there was a big fire at a school called Our lady of Angels. 92 students died and so did 3 nuns. Because of this many schools had to be fire proofed and Parker was one of them. People say that the school looked very ugly so they decided to hang these clocks around to give it more life. History

At first there were 34 clocks but now there is only 8. The others broke when trying to get them off the wall. To hang a clock it cost 1,000 dollars but the clock itself was only 75. The rest of the money was put towards the school. They had a lot of artists come and help to make them, then a while later the eight clocks that survived were restored and put on picture frames.

Sources: Baldwin, Jane. Interview. 2011 Baldwin, Jane. "Tile clocks". Zack Shapiro. 2011 Ellen Lanyon's Biography. 2010. Ellen Lanyon/ http://www.ellenlanyon.com/Ellen_Lanyon/Biography.html