Raymond Essington Parsons spent each summer with his family at his South Chatham cottages he lovingly named Holiday Shores. He was one of the Cape’s leading landscape painters who, through an intimate knowledge of the Cape’s atmosphere, was able to translate this to his canvases. A student of Mr. Vesper George at the Vesper George School of Art in Boston, Mr. Parsons was, for many years, one of Boston’s leading commercial artists and illustrators. Over the years, he had an opportunity to indulge in his real love, that of landscape painting. He would delight in translating the subtle moods of land and ocean into paintings which have traveled throughout the United States, Canada and Europe to provide permanent remembrances of that delightful vacation spot, Cape Cod.