Untitled (c. mid-1970s) comes from one of the more than 200 notebooks and sketchbooks that Parsons filled over the course of her career. The sketchbook was Parsons’s constant travel companion and a fundamental part of her artmaking practice and, as Lawrence Alloway observed, “A geometric zig-zag would be snatched out of a house we glimpsed; smudges of brown were suggested by a hillside; blue tatters would record a moment’s weather; a white would be suggested by a duck in a pond. As the diverse marks joined on the paper they would be, not descriptive of any one scene, but evocative of place, light, weather generally.” Untitled is suggestive of a bright, luminescent atmosphere, whether sky or land, and realized in highly saturated color and rhythmic brushstrokes facilitated by the fluidity of the paint.