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[[handwritten]] Gallery Copy [[/handwritten]]

[[preprinted]] BETTY PARSONS GALLERY 
24 WEST 57 STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. 10019 [[/preprinted]]

[[underlined]] BETTY PARSONS [[/underlined]]

Born: New York, NY, 1900
Studied in Paris under Bourdelle, followed by further study in sculpture with Archipenko and Zadkine.

[[underlined]] Honorary Degrees [[/underlined]]
Southampton College, Southampton, NY, 1976
Parsons School of Design, NYC, 1976

[[underlined]] Awards [[/underlined]]
Brandeis University Creative Arts Award, 1980

[[underlined]] Solo Exhibitions [[/underlined]]
White Chapel Gallery, London, ENGLAND, 1968 (Catalogue: "Betty Parsons Paintings, Gouaches & Sculptures 1955-68")
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ,1974
Kornblee Gallery, NYC, 1977, 1978, 1980
Nigel Greenwood, Inc., Ltd., London, ENGLAND, 1980
The American Center, Paris, FRANCE, 1980
Newspace, Los Angeles, CA, 1980

[[underlined]] Articles [[/underlined]]
Harper's Bazaar, 1967, "100 American Women of Accomplishment"
International Herald Tribune, 8/21 22/76, "Changing Art Game Rules", by Mary Blume
ARTnews, March 1979 (cover story), "Betty Parsons: Still trying to find the creative world in everything".
The New Yorker, June 9, 1975, "Profiles", by Calvin Tomkins
People Magazine, Feb. 27, 1978, "Betty Parsons Taught America to Appreciate what it once called "Trash": Abstract Art", by Ken Kelley

[[underlined]] Private Collections [[/underlined]]
Mrs. Robert Benjamin
Mrs. Duncan Phillips
Mr. Ellsworth Kelly
Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine
Mrs. Paul Mellon
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Hirshhorn

[[underlined]] Public Collections [[/underlined]]
Rockefeller Institute
Whitney Museum
The CIBY GEIGY Collection of Contemporary Paintings
The Phillips Collection