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Artworks
Betty ParsonsPasture, 1963Oil on canvas25h x 30w in (63.50h x 76.20w cm)BP154$50,000In Pasture (1963), Parsons transforms the subject of a verdant field into a meditation on abstract form. Free-floating forms in multiple shades of blue as well as one area of red activate a field of bright green built up in layers of paint. As Parsons’ biographer Lee Hall has described, “Never once did [Parsons] record an experience… according to its appearance alone; rather, as she recorded, she simultaneously interpreted her subject, probed for and usually found its essence.” Parsons persistently used form to evoke nature, not in terms of specific topography but as effects of color and light, and created these lyrical surfaces with thin layers of paint, pushing the paradigm of flatness in Abstract Expressionism.
