Edith Halpert | |
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 Halpert reading at the home of Charles Sheeler, between 1933 and 1942 | |
| Born | Edith Gregoryevna Fivoosiovitch 1900 Odessa, Ukraine |
| Died | 1970 (aged 69–70) New York, NY |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | American art dealer and collector |
| Known for | Downtown Gallery |
| Spouse | Samuel Halpert (m. 1918; div. 1930) |
Edith Halpert or Edith Gregor Halpert (née Edith Gregoryevna Fivoosiovitch; 1900–1970) was a pioneering New York City dealer of American modern art and American folk art.[1] She brought recognition and market success to many avant-garde American artists. Her establishment, the Downtown Gallery, was the first commercial art space in Greenwich Village. When it was founded in 1926, it was the only New York gallery dedicated exclusively to contemporary American art by living artists. Over her forty-year career, Halpert showcased such modern art luminaries as Elie Nadelman, Max Weber, Marguerite and William Zorach, Stuart Davis, Peggy Bacon, Charles Sheeler, Marsden Hartley, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Ben Shahn, Jack Levine, William Steig, Jacob Lawrence, Walter Meigs, Arthur Dove, John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe, and many others. Halpert later expanded her business to include American folk art, and certain nineteenth-century American painters, including Raphaelle Peale, William Michael Harnett, and John Frederick Peto, whom she considered to be precursors to American modernism.[2][3]
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- ^ "Edith Halpert: American art's invisible visionary".