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Betty Bierne Pierson Parsons

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Betty Bierne Pierson Parsons (1900 - 1982) was active/lived in New York, California.  Betty Parsons is known for Modernist views-non ob images, sculpture.

Better known as an art dealer than an artist, she had a self-named gallery that significantly promoted the careers of numerous abstract artists of the 1940s.  In fact, by some critics, she was called the "midwife" of the New York School*.

She grew up in an upper class existence in New York City and turned down a position on the U.S. Olympic tennis team to pursue her art career.  She was married briefly and then divorced but kept her husband's name.  From 1923 to 1933, she studied sculpture in Paris and was very much a part of avant-garde circles there that included Gertrude Stein, Alexander Calder, and Man Ray.

The stock market crash forced her to return to the United States where she spent three years teaching in Santa Barbara, California, and then returned to New York City.

She learned the art gallery business by working with Mrs. Cornelius Sullivan and in 1946 opened her own gallery where she gave artists total freedom with their exhibitions.&nbs   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6351 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Betty Bierne Pierson Parsons

   Publications  Book References:  26
Magazine References:  1

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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Betty Bierne Pierson Parsons
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review American Master Drawing February 1995 Murray, Mary E Yes
26 Book References for Betty Bierne Pierson Parsons
Year Author Title Pages Color
2016 Pollack, Deborah C. Palm Beach Visual Arts 200 Yes
2008 Fleming, Geoffrey K. and Sara Evans (Southold Historical Society) A Shared Aesthetic: Artists of Long Island's North Fork 250 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students) 187 No
1995 Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary 612 No
1994 Bailey, Brooke The Remarkable Lives Of 100 Women Artists 207 No
1991 Hall, Lee Betty Parsons Artist, Dealer, Collector 192 Yes
1987 Krane, Susan Albright-Knox Art Gallery Painting and Sculpture/Acquisitions since 1972 379 Yes
1987 National Museum of Women National Mus of Women in the Arts 253 Yes
1984 DeCoppet, Laura/Alan Jones The Art Dealers The Powers Behind the Scenes Tell How 320 No
1984 Severinghaus, J Walter Art at Work The Chase Manhattan Collection 333 Yes
1982 Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present 560 Yes
1981 Myers, John Bernard Tracking the Marvelous A Life in the New York Art World 285 No
1979 Guggenheim, Peggy Out of this Century Confessions of an Art Adict 396 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1979 Withers, Josephine Women Artists in Washington Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
1977 Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum 268 Yes
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1974 Hess, Thomas B (others) Betty Parsons Retrospective Paintings and Sculpture
(Exhibition catalog)		 28 No
1972 Gruen, John The Party's Over Now Reminiscences of the Fifties (New York) 282 No
1968 Alloway, Lawrence Betty Parsons Paintings, Gouaches and Sculpture
(Exhibition catalog)		 23 Yes
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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