Oil on wood assemblage, 1976. Signed, Betty Parsons, dated, 1976, and inscribed as titled on verso. 635x355x50 mm; 25x14x2 inches.
Provenance: The Artist; Jacquelyn A. Mattfeld, gifted from above; Thence by descent to the current owner.
Many people know Betty Parsons as a pioneer in the art gallery world. She showed important artists early in their careers, Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko, Agnes Martin, Elsworth Kelly, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, just to name a few. She also created wonderful constructions from found pieces of weathered wood assembled, painted, and repurposed into wonderful sculpture and wall reliefs. Her fascination with modernism began when she visited the 1913 Armory Show. She spent a decade of her early adult life living in Paris befriending the important collector and modernist writer, Gertrude Stein. Parsons passed away in 1982 and her gallery continued under the direction of her son, David Anderson. David moved the gallery to Buffalo New York under the name Anderson Gallery. Today Anderson Gallery's remaining collection and magnificent gallery space is part of the University of Buffalo.
