Tibor de Nagy Gallery
TheTibor de Nagy Galleryis anart gallerylocated on Rivington Street in theLower East Sideneighborhood of Manhattan.
History
[edit]Tibor de Nagy Gallery is among the earliest modern art galleries in New York City.[citation needed]The gallery was founded byTibor de Nagy(1908–1993) andJohn Bernard Myersin 1950 and was located in the East 50s.[1][2]It established emerging artists includingCarl Andre,Helen Frankenthaler,Jane Wilson,Red Grooms,Larry Rivers,Nell Blaine,Jane Freilicher,Fairfield Porter,among others.[3]The gallery became a salon for artists and poets and exhibited collaborations between them. The gallery published early volumes of poetry byNew York SchoolpoetsJohn Ashbery,Kenneth Koch,andFrank O’Hara.From 1993 to 2017 the gallery was co-owned and directed by Andrew Arnot andEric Brown.[4]In early 2017 Brown departed Tibor de Nagy Gallery. That same year, after 67 years in Midtown Manhattan, Arnot relocated the gallery to the Lower East Side.[5]
The gallery specializes in paintings and works on paper. It represents a group of artists whose works are eitherpainterlyrepresentational or abstract. It also works with a number of estates of such figures asJoe Brainard,Rudy Burckhardt,Donald Evans,andJess.
The gallery also has collaborative publications under the Tibor de Nagy Editions imprint. One of the books published under this imprint is titled,Postcards to Donald Evans,byTakashi Hiraideand published in 2003.[6]
References
[edit]- ^Smith, Roberta (December 28, 1993)."Tibor de Nagy, 85, Gallery Owner Who Helped Cultivate 50's Artists".The New York Times.ISSN0362-4331.RetrievedOctober 22,2021.
- ^"Statement by John Ashbery".tibordenagy.Archived fromthe originalon October 11, 2004.RetrievedOctober 22,2021.
- ^"The First Fifty Years".tibordenagy.Archived fromthe originalon October 9, 2004.RetrievedOctober 22,2021.
- ^Panero, James (March 2007)."Gallery chronicle".The New Criterion.36.
- ^Greenwald, Xico (June 24, 2017)."Reinventing, Downtown".The New York Sun.RetrievedSeptember 19,2017.
- ^Hiraide, Takashi (2003).Postcards to Donald Evans.New York: Tibor de Nagy Ed.ISBN978-1-891123-49-8.