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Painting of a Stream in Winter signed Angelos by Betty Sabo - C3818B
Betty Jean Beals, became Betty Jean Angelos when she first married, then Betty Jean Sabo when she married Dan Sabo who became her life partner. Her earlier paintings were signed simply Angelos. Later ones were signed Sabo. This is one of her earlier paintings. It is not dated but most likely dates to the mid-1950s. Following graduation from the University of New Mexico, she became a painter and continued painting until she reached age 60, at which time she switched to sculpture. Paint fumes were causing her to be sick.
Because of her extraordinary talent as a painter of oil paintings of New Mexico scenery and then her switch to sculpting bronze figures, most collectors have tended to retain those paintings in their collections as there are none after the 1970s when Sabo switched to bronze casting.