Betty Parsons’s Two Lives
Carol Strickland, The New York Times
June 1992
Betty Parsons, born in 1900, grew up amid luxury, with homes in New York, Newport and Palm Beach. When she was a child, a fleet of cars emblazoned with the family crest whisked her to Miss Chapin’s School and then finishing school. As a newlywed, she traveled through Europe on a nine-month honeymoon in a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce. But it was not until she lost her fortune that Betty Parsons found her fate, to be, as Ellsworth Kelly said, “an extraordinary woman in the history of modern art.” […]