The Parsons Effect
Judith E. Stein and Helène Aylon, Art in America
November 2013
I was so interested in other artists, it always cooled me off on myself. When I’m not at the gallery, my own art is my relaxation. That’s my greatest joy.
Betty Bierne Pierson, the rebellious, self-assured offspring of an old New York family, was 13 when she visited the historic Armory Show in 1913 and set her course on becoming an artist. Her conservative parents acquiesced to art lessons but drew the line at higher education for women. […]