A Keeper of the Treasure
Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker
June 1975
In twenty-nine years as an independent art dealer, Betty Parsons has always been happiest when showing the unfamiliar. It takes only a year or so these days for the unfamiliar image or style in art to become familiar and accepted, and a good many of Mrs. Parsons’ artists have been with her a good deal longer than that, but one cannot help feeling that her boundless enthusiasm is directed mainly toward her latest discoveries. […]