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Betty's Narration - Page 4
[[strikethrough]] I love to find the [[/strikethrough]]  [[insertion]] I am concerned with the [[/insertion]] creative in painting.  I am not so interested in the selling as in the finding.  Jock Truman, who has been with me in my gallery for many years, says life constantly is exciting here.  Most of my artists are Americans, but I show artists from Japan, Italy, England, Denmark, from anywhere in the world....Museums buy [[strikethrough]] my artists [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] the work [[/insertion]] - and art collectors, of course.. and young people, looking for new artists they can afford.....The business of art is a tryanny of forms and finances.  I like the creative aspect and the recognition......but the business of it is less interesting to me - God knows you must cope with it.  

I've had a gallery for over thirty years, and the whole recognition of art has changed....For years my artists didn't sell... [[strikethrough]] Agnes Martin, ^[[Barnie Newman]] [[/strikethrough]] got so discouraged that [[strikethrough]]she[[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] he [[/insertion]] stopped painting [[strikethrough]] and went to New Mexico in the mountains. She built a house with her own hands, and she lived with the birds and animals for over five years.  Now she's painting again.[[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]]Agnes Martin was so frustrated that she left NY to [[?]]thoughtful painter.  She built a house there with her own hands in the desert. Now she's painting. [[/insertion]]
God!  The [[underlined]] hostility [[/underlined]] I had in the beginning from the art critics and even some of my friends......
Hostility is a thing of the past.  Today these artists bring over a hundred thousand dollars...One of Jackson Pollock's large paintings even sold for two million dollars.....