Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Parsons, Betty
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- Betty Parsons Gallery records and personal papers
- Betty Parsons Gallery records and personal papers / Series 7: Betty Parsons Personal Papers / 7.1: Early Curatorial Files
- Sponsor
- Funding for the processing and digitization of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art and The Walton Family Foundation.
- Date
- circa 1944-1958
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Art
- Identifier
- AAA.parsbett, Subseries 7.1.2
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Betty Parsons Gallery records and personal papers, 1916-1991. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Collection Rights
- The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
- Scope and Contents note
- Found here are select files stemming from Betty Parsons work as the head of the contemporary art section of Mortimer Brandt Gallery. The files consist of clippings, correspondence, announcements, catalogs, exhibition files, and exhibition lists. As with the files from Wakefield Gallery above, these files do not constitute a complete record of Parsons' work with the Mortimer-Brandt Gallery. Exhibition files exist solely for the two exhibitions; Abstract and Surrealist Art in America (1944) and Portraits of Today by Painters of Tomorrow (1945). There is also correspondence between Parsons and Mortimer Brandt, some of which concerns lease arrangements for Parsons subletting half of the fifth floor of 15 East 57th Street to open her own gallery. There is also correspondence between Parsons and Sidney Janis, who sublet the rest of the floor for his gallery beginning in 1953.
- Series Restrictions
- Researchers interested in accessing audiovisual recordings in this collection must use access copies. Contact References Services for more information.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503511935241-1503511935607-4
