Betty Parsons's Private Collection
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Parsons, Betty, 1900-1982
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content: Betty Parsons Gallery records and personal papers
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content: Betty Parsons Gallery records and personal papers / Series 7: Betty Parsons Personal Papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1950s-1983
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.parsbett, Subseries 7.9
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This subseries documents Betty Parsons's personal art collection through inventories, correspondence, clippings, photographs, loan agreements, sales and purchase invoices, and photographs of artwork. 

Institutions and museums often requested loans from Parsons' personal collection for exhibitions. Exhibition files consist of announcements, catalogs, correspondence, and clippings. Additionally Parsons' gave works of art from her collection to institutions and museums and these gifts are recorded in the "Gifts of work" files. Some of the documents in this subseries document appraisals of the collection following Parsons' death in 1982