$ 120,000 

Early Morning (1967) comes from a period in the second half of the 1960s when Parsons incorporated increased linearity into her paintings. As in so many of her paintings, the subject is based on her observations of landscape, but here she advances further into abstraction in a grouping of vertical bands in sunshine yellow, red, gray, white, and black. 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.”