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Betty Parsons American, 1900-1982 Summer Snow Signed Betty Parsons on the reverse Oil on wood constructi... American, 1900-1982 Summer Snow Signed Betty Parsons on the reverse Oil on wood construction 32 x 24 inches Provenance: Private collection Exhibited: New York, Kornblee Gallery, Oct. 14-Nov. 11, 1978 Literature: Mark Stevens, Newsweek, "Browser's Delight," Nov. 13, 1978, p. 105, illus. Grace Lichtenstein, ArtNews, "Betty Parsons: Still Trying to Find the Creative World in Everything," Mar. 1979, p. 54, illus. A legendary art dealer and advocate of the leading avant-garde artists of the mid- and late twentieth century, Parsons was also an artist in her own right who is increasingly receiving attention for her paintings and sculpture. Summer Snow belongs to the constructions she created from the scraps of wood she gathered on the beaches near her cliff-side home in Southold, Long Island, beginning in the 1960s. Instead of driftwood, she was drawn to "carpenter's throwaways" for their evocations of past narratives and former lives. As in Summer Snow, she kept the pieces intact, but painted and positioned them in new relationships. Drawing from Native American, Pre-Columbian, and Folk sources, she evoked architectural, urban, or biomorphic associations as in this totemic and playful composition. C The Spanierman Gallery, LLC Collection of American Art
The surface of the painting, front and back, is covered with a slightly brown varnish. There are scratches at center, center right, and lower right. These scratches are on top of the varnish layer.