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Artworks
Betty ParsonsNight Forms, 1960Oil on canvas52h x 40.50w in (132.08h x 102.87w cm)BP157$ 95,000In Night Forms (1960), Parsons created an inky field of midnight blue populated by a group of free floating “island” forms, which critic Roberta Smith has described as “islands in a sea, or windows in the corner of a room.” A compositional approach that Parsons used repeatedly in the 1960s, it combines the open expanse of color field painting with her own spontaneous and interpretative approach. As in many of her paintings, here Parsons evoked not what a place or event “looked like,” as she put it, “but what it made [her] feel.” Working in thin layers of oil paint, Parsons evokes the indistinctness of objects in a nighttime landscape.1of 6
