Raymond Parker; Abstract Painter

Raymond Parker, 67, an abstract painter whose works were known for their understated sensuality. Critics placed him in a generation of artists who reacted against Abstract Expressionism. He strove for abstractions that were ambitious yet relaxed. His art was exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in 1961, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1967 and at the Phillips Collection in Washington in 1979. Parker works are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Tate Gallery in London. The artist taught at Hunter College in New York from 1955 until his retirement last year. He attended the University of Iowa before moving to New York in 1951. He died there April 14 of prostate cancer.