Annotated Sketchbooks
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: 1922-1981
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.parsbett, Subseries 7.5
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: According to biographical accounts, Betty Parsons was an avid sketcher, having acquired the habit dating from her studies with the English artist Arthur Lindsay in the 1930s. This subseries includes forty-eight of her sketchbooks of varying sizes, many of which are annotated with diary entries and other notes, such as 1951 notes for her WNYC Radio Arts Festival Interview, a transcript of which can be found in 7.2: Biographical Materials, as well as records of trips with Aline Porter and family, Agnes Martin, and others. The sketchbooks contain abstract, landscape, and figurative drawings and paintings in ink, felt tip marker, gouache, pencil, and other media. 

Also found are two notebooks containing dress patterns by Parsons, and some loose sketches and other artwork by unidentified artists. Some of the sketches may be by Parsons.