She said of the environment in the home on Sutton Place that she and her parents maintained "a kind of quiet gentility" while their employers were involved in an endless "Greek passion play.
"[4] According to art essayist Nina Felshin, "Life, in Philemona Williamson's paintings, appears to be a balancing act in which there are two sides to every coin and the action intentionally raises more questions than it answers."
Art critic Catherine Bernard has said, "The tension of the figures, the colors, and the distortion of space are all shadows, however faint, of our dismembered memories.
[8] Her Seasons decorates the Livonia Avenue (BMT Canarsie Line) subway station in New York City.
This 2007 work is a set of stained glass windows on the platform windscreens depicted events related to the four seasons of meteorology.
[10] In 1994, Williamson's work was shown as part of the American contingent at the IV Bienal Internacional de Pintura en Cuenca, Ecuador.
Other American artists exhibiting at this show were Donald Locke, Whitfield Lovell, Emilio Cruz and Freddy Rodríguez.