On a Train

Betty Parsons was an American gallerist, painter, and sculptor who shaped postwar abstraction through her influential New York gallery. Operating the Betty Parsons Gallery from 1946, she championed early Abstract Expressionists including Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, and Mark Rothko during a period when such work faced market resistance. Her own paintings and sculptures employed geometric abstraction and color field approaches. Parsons maintained curatorial independence and artist advocacy throughout her career, establishing her gallery as a crucial venue for American modernism's emergence.

New York, NY, USA