PROFILE of Betty Parsons, 75, N.Y. art dealer. The Betty Parsons Gallery is at 24 W. 57 St. Describes her 29-year history as an independent art dealer; the gallery's heroic period was in the late 1940's & early 1950's, when Pollock, Rothko, Still, & Newman exhibited there. By 1952, the artists' solidarity had deteriorated & the moved to different galleries. That the Parsons Gallery had & then lost so many of the masters of Abstract Expressionism has been variously interpreted... Tells about the artists she has discovered since. Parsons has shown primarily abstract painting & sculpture at her gallery. She is herself an artist, & an art collector.
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