Palm Beach Visual Arts
2016Pollack, Deborah C.
200 pages (color)
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1900 New York City - 1982 New York City. Known for: Modernist views-non ob images, sculpture.
Better known as an art dealer than an artist, she had a self-named gallery that significantly promoted the careers of numerous abstract artists of the 1940s. In fact, by some critics, she was called... Read full biography
Better known as an art dealer than an artist, she had a self-named gallery that significantly promoted the careers of numerous abstract artists of the 1940s. In fact, by some critics, she was called the "midwife" of the New York School*. She grew up in an upper class existence in New York City and... Read full biography
Better known as an art dealer than an artist, she had a self-named gallery that significantly promoted the careers of numerous abstract artists of the 1940s. In fact, by some critics, she was called the "midwife" of the New York School*. She grew up in an upper class existence in New York City and turned down a position on the U.S. Olympic tennis team to pursue her art career. She was married briefly and then divorced but kept her husband's name. From 1923 to 1933, she studied sculpture in... Read full biography
Better known as an art dealer than an artist, she had a self-named gallery that significantly promoted the careers of numerous abstract artists of the 1940s. In fact, by some critics, she was called the "midwife" of the New York School*. She grew up in an upper class existence in New York City and turned down a position on the U.S. Olympic tennis team to pursue her art career. She was married briefly and then divorced but kept her husband's name. From 1923 to 1933, she studied sculpture in Paris and was very much a part of avant-garde circles there that included Gertrude Stein, Alexander Calder, and Man Ray. The stock market crash forced her to return to the United States where she spent three years teaching in Santa Barbara, California,... Read full biography
Better known as an art dealer than an artist, she had a self-named gallery that significantly promoted the careers of numerous abstract artists of the 1940s. In fact, by some critics, she was called the "midwife" of the New York School*. She grew up in an upper class existence in New York City and turned down a position on the U.S. Olympic tennis team to pursue her art career. She was married briefly and then divorced but kept her husband's name. From 1923 to 1933, she studied sculpture in Paris and was very much a part of avant-garde circles there that included Gertrude Stein, Alexander Calder, and Man Ray. The stock market crash forced her to return to the United States where she spent three years teaching in Santa Barbara, California, and then returned to New York City. She learned the art gallery business by working with Mrs. Cornelius Sullivan... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (26)
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A Shared Aesthetic: Artists of Long Island's North Fork
2008Fleming, Geoffrey K. and Sara Evans (Southold Historical Society)250 pages (color)The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)479 pagesDavenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesWho Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesThe Art Students League of New York: A History (Students)
1999Steiner, Raymond J187 pagesNorth American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller612 pagesThe Remarkable Lives Of 100 Women Artists
1994Bailey, Brooke207 pagesBetty Parsons Artist, Dealer, Collector
1991Hall, Lee192 pages (color)Albright-Knox Art Gallery Painting and Sculpture/Acquisitions since 1972
1987Krane, Susan379 pages (color)National Mus of Women in the Arts
1987National Museum of Women253 pages (color)The Art Dealers The Powers Behind the Scenes Tell How
1984DeCoppet, Laura/Alan Jones320 pagesArt at Work The Chase Manhattan Collection
1984Severinghaus, J Walter333 pages (color)American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present
1982Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer560 pages (color)Tracking the Marvelous A Life in the New York Art World
1981Myers, John Bernard285 pagesOut of this Century Confessions of an Art Adict
1979Guggenheim, Peggy396 pages (color)Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel736 pagesWomen Artists in Washington Collections
1979
(Exhibition catalog)Withers, Josephine144 pages (color)The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum
1977Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich268 pages (color)Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976Jaques Cattell Press756 pagesSmithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975Editor, Smithsonian0 pagesWhitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974Baur, John I H235 pages (color)Betty Parsons Retrospective Paintings and Sculpture
1974
(Exhibition catalog)Hess, Thomas B (others)28 pagesThe Party's Over Now Reminiscences of the Fifties (New York)
1972Gruen, John282 pagesBetty Parsons Paintings, Gouaches and Sculpture
1968
(Exhibition catalog)Alloway, Lawrence23 pages (color)Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge1,130 pages