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Parsons, Betty

LC control no.n 90680361
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Personal name headingParsons, Betty
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Associated countryUnited States
LocatedNew York (N.Y.) Paris (France)
Birth date1900
Death date1982
Place of birthNew York (N.Y.)
Place of deathSouthold (N.Y.)
AffiliationBetty Parsons Gallery
Profession or occupationArtists
Gallerists
Found inHall, L. Betty Parsons, 1991: CIP t.p. (Betty Parsons)
LC data base, 08-10-90 (hdg.: Parsons, Betty)
Betty Parsons & the women, 2005: p. [2] (1900-1982)
Women of abstract expressionism, ©2016: page 189 (Betty Parsons; born Betty Bierne Pierson, 1900, New York; died 1982, Southold, NY; raised in New York, Newport, and Palm Beach; married Schuyler Livingston Parsons at age 20, they divorced three years later; she lived in Paris for the next 10 years and studied painting and sculpture; returned to New York, continued to exhibit and was offered a gallery position in 1936 at Midtown Galleries; owner of Betty Parsons Gallery, 1946-1982)