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Artworks
Betty ParsonsEarly Light, 1965Acrylic on canvas30.75h x 25.63w in (78.11h x 65.09w cm)BP243SoldIn Early Light (1965), Parsons employs a faint green-blue color to evoke the delicate atmospheric effects of the first light of the day. Likely painted in her light-filled studio in Southold, Long Island, which overlooked the waters of Long Island Sound, it features a grouping of Parsons’ island-like forms suspended in a monochromatic field of color. 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.”3of 3
