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Josephine Compton Pearson, 90, a 51-year resident of Deerfield who made her living for many years as an artist, died Thursday in Libertyville. Ms. Pearson was born and raised in St. Louis, where she attended the St. Louis School of Fine Arts. After moving to the Chicago area in the early 1930s, she began painting portraits and did so for the rest of her life. From 1944 to 1979, Ms. Pearson was employed as an illustrator and designed ads for the J.B. Garnett stores in Lake Forest, Glencoe and Highland Park, and in the early 1950s she was the editor of the Deerfield Review. She is survived by a daughter, Catherine Winslow; and two grandsons.
