Pioneering Gallerist Betty Parsons Was Also an Important Artist
Alexxa Gotthardt, Artsy
June 2017
The list of Betty Parsons’s adventures and accomplishments is immense. As a gallerist, she gave Jackson Pollock, and myriad other Abstract Expressionists, some of their earliest shows. As a magnetic free spirit, she played tennis with Greta Garbo and danced weekly with Alexander Calder “for the exercise.” She topped her head with berets, took lovers like Josephine Baker, and traveled the world many times over. […]