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Grand Central Art Galleries
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Grand Central Art Galleries is a gallery in Manhattan, United States.
About Grand Central Art Galleries
The Grand Central Art Galleries were the exhibition and administrative space of the nonprofit Painters and Sculptors Gallery Association, an artists' cooperative established in 1922 by Walter Leighton Clark together with John Singer Sargent, Edmund Greacen, and others. Artists closely associated with the Grand Central Art Galleries included Hovsep Pushman, George de Forest Brush, and especially Sargent, whose posthumous show took place there in 1928.
The Galleries were active from 1923 until 1994. For 29 years they were located on the sixth floor of Grand Central Terminal in New York City. At their 1923 opening, the Galleries covered 14,000 square feet (1,300 m2) and offered nine exhibition areas and a reception room, described as "the largest sales gallery of art in the world.
Grand Central Art Galleries by the numbers
- Founded
- 1922
Moments held at Grand Central Art Galleries
- Grand Central Art Galleries opens (1923) The Grand Central Art Galleries officially opened in New York on the sixth floor of Grand Central Terminal as the public exhibition and sales home of the Painters and Sculptors Gallery Association. Organized as an. The galleries became a major American-art venue and later helped create the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
- Carnegie International Presented at Grand Central Art Galleries (1926) Grand Central Art Galleries in New York became the site of the Carnegie International Exhibition, the first time the Carnegie International had been held outside Pittsburgh. The March 7 presentation featured works by. The show extended the Carnegie International's reach beyond Pittsburgh and amplified New York's role as a market and exhibition hub.
- Thirty-three Moderns opens at Grand Central Art Galleries (1930) On 2 February 1930, Grand Central Art Galleries opened Thirty-three Moderns, a show of contemporary work drawn from 33 artists associated with the avant-garde Downtown Gallery. The fetched Grand Central Art Galleries. The show marked a public rapprochement between New York's avant-garde artists and a more mainstream commercial gallery audience.
- The Races of Man Opens at Grand Central Art Galleries (1934) On January 31, 1934, Grand Central Art Galleries opened Malvina Hoffman's "The Races of Man," an exhibition of 90 life-sized bronze sculptures. The project had originated in the Field Museum's anthropological display. The exhibition made Hoffman's Field Museum commission a prominent art-world event while preserving a contested record of interwar racial display.
- Grand Central Art Galleries opens Sargent drawings exhibition (1928) On February 14, 1928, Grand Central Art Galleries opened a posthumous Exhibition of Drawings by John Singer Sargent. Sargent had died in 1925, and the show drew on previously unseen drawings, watercolors, and. The exhibition helped preserve and publicize Sargent's studio archive as evidence of his broader artistic method.
- Sargent Retrospective Opens at Grand Central (1924) On February 23, 1924, Grand Central Art Galleries opened Retrospective Exhibition of the Important Works of John Singer Sargent. The exhibition presented 60 oil paintings and 12 watercolors, including major portraits. The retrospective helped consolidate Sargent's late-career standing while supporting Grand Central's artist-run exhibition system.
Museums near Grand Central Art Galleries
- Art Museum Museum of Modern Art Manhattan, United States
- Art Museum National Academy of Design Manhattan, United States
- Art Museum The Frick Collection Manhattan, United States
- Art Museum Metropolitan Museum of Art Manhattan, United States
- Art Museum Neue Galerie Manhattan, United States
- Art Museum Whitney Museum of American Art Manhattan, United States
