Art in Review: Betty Parsons
Roberta Smith, The New York Times
December 2006
Three dozen strong, these jauntily nautical reliefs and sculptures by Betty Parsons are the distillation of a life centered on art. Parsons, an upper-class New Yorker who found her calling at the 1913 Armory Show, studied sculpture in Paris in the 1920s, drew incessantly all her life, painted quite a bit and exhibited intermittently. Her work seems to have improved after the decline of her famous 57th Street art gallery, which incubated prominent members of the Abstract Expressionist generation and successors like Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin and Richard Tuttle. […]