Eleanor Karp's Obituary
Eleanor Karp died in her home in Fayetteville on 24 November 2006 at the age of 76.
She was born in 1930 in Brooklyn, New York to Lillian and Abraham Cohen. After graduating with degrees in architecture from Cooper Union in 1951 and in 1953 from Pratt Institute, both in New York, she practiced architecture from 1954 to 1965 in Burlington, Vermont and San Francisco, California, where she worked with architects such as Warren Callister, Aaron Green and Frank Lloyd Wright.
Beginning in 1966 she taught as an adjunct instructor of art history at the University of Arkansas. She also was visiting lecturer of architecture at several schools, including Cornell University, University of Colorado and the University of California, Berkeley.
She was the author and co-author with her former husband Mort Karp of several articles on landscape architecture. Her published writing also includes a work of fiction, the short story "How to Write New Yorker Stories", that appeared in Harpers in July 1966. She devoted most of the last thirty years to her interests, including writing on physics and art technique, biological research and painting oils on large format panels. At the time of her death she had completed painting a series of eighty panels portraying the history of art and scenes from her life.
She is survived by her brother, Ephraim Cohen of Whippany, New Jersey, and his family, her daughter Flo Karp of Philadelphia, her son Aaron Karp and two grandchildren, Joshua and Madeline Karp, of Norfolk, Virginia. An ecumenical memorial service will be held at Freemason Street Baptist Church in Norfolk, Virginia on Saturday, 27 January 2007. Inquiries should be directed to Flo Karp at [email protected]
Visitation Date Time No Visitation N/A Visitation Location No Visitation Service Date Time January 27, 2007 Service Location Freemason Street Baptist Church in Norfork, Virginia
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