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| Kraushaar Galleries | |
|---|---|
| Name | Kraushaar Galleries |
| Established | 1885 |
| Location | New York City, United States |
| Type | Art gallery |
| Founder | Charles W. Kraushaar |
Kraushaar Galleries is a longstanding art gallery in New York City known for promoting American and European modern and contemporary art since the late 19th century. It has mounted exhibitions of prominent painters, sculptors, and printmakers, and maintained relationships with collectors, museums, and critics across the United States and Europe. The gallery has participated in the evolving art market alongside institutions, auction houses, and cultural organizations.
The gallery traces roots to the late 19th century alongside figures such as John Singer Sargent, James McNeill Whistler, Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt, and Thomas Eakins, reflecting American and transatlantic tastes. In the early 20th century it operated during the eras of Gustave Courbet, Édouard Manet, Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Georges Braque, exhibiting works and prints that paralleled acquisitions by museums like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art. Mid-century activity overlapped with dealers and critics tied to Alfred Stieglitz, Peggy Guggenheim, Pierre Matisse, Sam Kootz, and Leo Castelli. During the postwar period the gallery engaged with artists and movements connected to Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, and Jasper Johns, while navigating relationships with foundations and collecting practices influenced by collectors such as Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, John D. Rockefeller and Paul Mellon. Late 20th-century challenges paralleled shifts involving Christie's, Sotheby's, Gagosian Gallery, and institutional exhibitions at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Brooklyn Museum of Art.
Exhibitions have featured painters, sculptors, and printmakers including figures linked to Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Edward Hopper, Alexander Calder, Stuart Davis, George Bellows, and N.C. Wyeth. The gallery presented work by European émigrés and modernists such as Max Beckmann, Käthe Kollwitz, Otto Dix, Paul Klee, Joan Miró, Jean Dubuffet, and Lucio Fontana. It mounted shows including early career surveys and later retrospectives related to Milton Avery, Childe Hassam, Georgia O'Keeffe, Arshile Gorky, Philip Guston, Ad Reinhardt, Helen Frankenthaler, Franz Kline, and Lee Krasner. Exhibitions also connected with printmakers and graphic artists like James Whistler, Rockwell Kent, John Sloan, Edward Steichen, and Ansel Adams. The roster occasionally overlapped with sculptors and installation artists associated with Isamu Noguchi, David Smith, Dan Flavin, Claes Oldenburg, and Donald Judd.
Situated in Manhattan, the gallery's addresses and relocations intersect with neighborhoods tied to Greenwich Village, Chelsea, Manhattan, SoHo, Manhattan, and Upper East Side. Its physical spaces reflect architectural currents related to designers and architects like McKim, Mead & White, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson, and gallery-build specialists who worked near institutions such as the Cooper Hewitt, Frick Collection, and New-York Historical Society. Internally, the layout responds to lighting practices developed in concert with conservators from the Frick Conservation Center and curators from the Morgan Library & Museum.
The gallery facilitated private sales and consignments that later entered institutional collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, National Gallery of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Tate Modern, National Portrait Gallery (United States), and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It handled works by collectors including Paul Mellon, J. Paul Getty, Alfred Barnes, Samuel Kress, Henry Clay Frick, and Andrew Mellon. Acquisitions and provenance research engaged scholars and registrars associated with Getty Research Institute, Smithsonian Institution, Library of Congress, and Archives of American Art.
Critical responses came from art historians, critics, and publications connected to Clement Greenberg, Harold Rosenberg, Robert Hughes, John Russell (art critic), Peter Schjeldahl, and magazines such as Artforum, ARTnews, The Burlington Magazine, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. The gallery's influence intersected with academic departments at Columbia University, New York University, Yale University, Harvard University, and curatorial practices at museums influenced by directors such as Alfred H. Barr Jr., Thomas Hoving, Max Hollein, and Glenn D. Lowry. Its exhibitions affected market valuations tracked by indices and reports used by analysts at Artnet, Artprice, and auction houses including Phillips de Pury.
Ownership and management involved partnerships and private proprietors who coordinated with museum trustees, legal counsel experienced with the U.S. Copyright Act, estate executors of artists, and art advisers. The gallery negotiated consignments, loan agreements, and dealer contracts similar to arrangements seen at galleries operated by Paul Durand-Ruel, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Giorgio Franchetti, and later commercial galleries such as David Zwirner and Hauser & Wirth. Transactional relationships included collaboration with corporate collections like those of J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of America, and university collections at Princeton University and Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Archival materials, correspondence, exhibition catalogs, photographs, and inventory ledgers link to repositories such as the Archives of American Art, Getty Research Institute, New York Public Library, Museum of Modern Art Archives, and university special collections at Smithsonian Institution. Documentation serves provenance research, loans, and conservation assessments performed by specialists from institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art Department of Conservation, National Gallery of Art Conservation Department, and independent conservators. Curatorial files intersect with scholarship produced by academics and authors associated with Yale University Press, Princeton University Press, and exhibition organizers at Tate Britain and Centre Pompidou.
Category:Art galleries in New York City