Stable Gallery
The Stable Gallery,[1] originally located on West 58th Street in New York City, was founded in 1953 by Eleanor Ward. The Stable Gallery hosted early solo New York exhibitions for artists including Marisol Escobar, Robert Indiana and Andy Warhol.
History
The Stable Gallery, which was originally located in an old livery stable on West 58th Street in
abstract expressionists
of the 1950s.
List of artists who participated in all the Stable Annuals 1953–57
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However, the first and second generation Abstract Expressionist artists began to go in their own directions, and new
Lowell Nesbitt, Isamu Noguchi, Larry Rivers, Leon Polk Smith, Richard Stankiewicz, Cy Twombly, Jack Tworkov, and Wilfred Zogbaum. The Stable Gallery organized Andy Warhol’s first one-man show in November 1962, after Leo Castelli turned him down; the exhibition included eight of the 12 single images of Marilyn Monroe that came to be known as the “Flavor Marilyns,” because each had a colored background.[9]
By doing this Eleanor Ward established a reputation for the Stable Gallery as a meeting place for both great emerging and established artists of the time.
By 1960, the Stable Gallery had moved to 33
East 74th Street
in New York, a location that possessed enough space for the gallery exhibition area. The building was also large enough to contain living quarters for Ward on the ground floor, opening to the garden at the rear. 1970 would mark the closure of the Stable Gallery, which came about very quickly and unexpectedly after Eleanor Ward stated that: due to the evolving commercialization of Fine Art and her personal loss of interest in what was becoming contemporary in the art world, that she would prefer to act as a private art consultant rather than operate a gallery, which she considered to have evolved into simply a business and no longer a passion.
References
- ISBN 0-9677994-0-6. Retrieved December 30, 2009.
- ^ "Second Annual at the Stable Gallery, 1953". Archived from the original on June 3, 2010. Retrieved December 30, 2009.
- ^ "Third Annual at the Stable Gallery, 1954". Archived from the original on February 9, 2012. Retrieved December 30, 2009.
- ^ "Fourth Annual at the Stable Gallery, 1955". Archived from the original on June 3, 2010. Retrieved December 30, 2009.
- ^ "Fifth Annual at the Stable Gallery, 1956". Archived from the original on February 9, 2012. Retrieved December 30, 2009.
- ^ "Sixth Annual at the Stable Gallery, 1957". Archived from the original on February 9, 2012. Retrieved December 30, 2009.
- ^ "9th Street Poster". Archived from the original on February 5, 2012. Retrieved December 30, 2009.
- ISBN 0-9677994-0-6. p. 15–39
- New York Times.
General references
- Glueck, Grace (January 7, 1984). "Eleanor Ward is dead at 72; Dealer for new U.S. artists". New York Times. Retrieved December 30, 2009.
- "Stable Gallery Records". Washington D.C.: Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved December 30, 2009.
- "Eleanor Ward: The Stable Gallery". Warholstars. Retrieved December 30, 2009.
- P. Walsh. "Warhol Brillo Boxes". Allen Memorial Art Museum. Oberlin College. Retrieved December 30, 2009.
- Marika Herskovic, New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists, (New York School Press, 2000.) ISBN 0-9677994-0-6. p. 10–39
External links
- Brooklyn Rail interview with Nicolas Carone
- Abstract expressionism 1950s-New York School Artists of the 9th St Show Reminisce—YouTube video 13:34
- 9th Street Art Exhibition-abstract expressionist artists reminisce—YouTube video 9:27
- Nicolas Carone-Abstract Expressionism-Artist of the 9th Street Art Exhibition—from youtube.com 10:00
