Betty Parsons Personal Papers
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Parsons, Betty, 1900-1982
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content: Betty Parsons Gallery records and personal papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 21 Linear Feet (Boxes 38-51, 56-64, OVs 65-67)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1916-1991
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.parsbett, Series 7
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: This series is arranged into 10 subseries:

7.1: Early Curatorial Files, circa 1940-1958

7.2: Biographical Material, 1916-1982

7.3: Correspondence, 1922-1983

7.4: Pocket Diaries and Notebooks, 1933-1981

7.5: Annotated Sketchbooks, circa 1920s-1981

7.6: Writings, circa 1930-1981

7.7: Printed Material, circa 1927-1991

7.8: Betty Parsons's Art Work Files, circa 1920s-1983

7.9: Betty Parsons's Private Collection Files, circa 1950s-1983

7.10: Personal Financial Records, 1923-1982
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: The bulk of this series has been digitized. Only a representative sample of Parson's annotated sketchbooks has been digitized and the dress pattern books from that subseries have not been digitized. Only the covers, title and/or relevant pages in some printed catalogs, brochures, and pamphlets have been digitized. The following types of records have not been digitized: personal  financial records and photographs, transparencies, and slides of artwork donated or transferred prior to 2017.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series documents the more personal and professional activities of Betty Parsons through early curatorial files from her work at Wakefield Gallery and Mortimer Brandt Gallery, biographical files, family papers, correspondence, pocket diaries, annotated sketchbooks, writings, photographs, printed materials, and financial records. Parsons' extensive personal papers also include files that provide an overview of her own career as an artist as well as her extensive private art collection.