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[[preprinted]] BETTY PARSONS GALLERY
PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE

CIRCLE 7-7480 

24 WEST 57 STREET
NEW YORK 19, N.Y. [[/preprinted]]

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I [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] started my own ^[[pioneering in this fall]]  After six years of being a [[strikethrough]] director in other [[/strikethrough]] galleries, ^[[when]] I began to have confidence in my intuitions  for recognizing creative work I promoted many painters [[/circled]] ^[[folly]] now famous: Hans Hofman, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Richard Pousette-Dart, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Olyfford Still, Bradley Walker Tomlin, Walter Murch, William Congdon, Hedda Sterne, and the young [[strikethrough]] Robert Rausehenberg [[/strikethrough]]. Each Artist was different, ^[[and]] [[strikethrough]] but [[/strikethrough]] each possessed a vocabulary according to his nature and feeling toward life. This feeling of personal identification and st^[[r]]ength seemed to be what I was instinctively looking for in their work.
The first five years of the gallery, 1946-1951, were particularly exciting as the artists were stimulated by one another's work, and out of those years came the paintings which are now the classics of postwar American art. At first the public was reluctant to recognize these affirmations, so the artists formed their own audience. I always encouraged the artist^[['s]] freedom of expression and never let the commercial world interfer^[[e]]. Gradually a small public began to share my intuitions of [[strikethrough]] their ^[[the]] [[/strikethrough]] ^[[these artists']] greatness.