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Artworks
Betty ParsonsFog, c.1970Acrylic on canvas30h x 24.25w in (76.20h x 61.59w cm)BP092$50,000In Fog (c. 1970), Parsons created an ethereal field of blue to suggest the light effects of fog over water. Likely painted in her light-filled studio in Southold, Long Island, which overlooked the Long Island Sound, it features a grouping of Parsons’ island-like forms in green and yellow. Parsons was frequently inspired by the landscape, which she transformed into abstract form according to her approach of intuitive interpretation. As critic Lawrence Alloway described, “Her imagery is persistently evocative of nature, not in terms of specific topography but as effects of light and color, the seasons or the sky. … She is cued by the color wherever she finds herself, by an evening sky, a flowering tree, a rock, plumage, and these remain, within the format of abstract art, the basis of her work.”1of 3
