Edith Halpert
Edith Halpert or Edith Gregor Halpert (née Edith Gregor Fiviosioovitch (Fein)) (1900–1970) was a pioneering New York City dealer of Modern art. Halpert brought recognition and market success to many avant-garde American artists over her forty year career from 1926 through the 1960's. Her establishment The Downtown Gallery, one of the first in Greenwich Village, introduced or showcased such modern art luminaries as Stuart Davis, Georgia O'Keeffe, Arthur Dove, Jacob Lawrence, Charles Sheeler, David Fredenthal, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Ben Shahn, Jack Levine, Marguerite and William Zorach, and many others.[1] Halpert arrived in the U.S. as a penniless Russian Jewish immigrant, transformed the landscape of Modern art, and died at age 70 a multimillionaire. Sotheby's credited her with having put modernist painting auctions on the map with the posthumous sale of her collection for $3.6 million in 1973.[2][3]
Early years
Halpert was born April 25 in Odessa to Gregor and Frances Fiviosioovitch. She emigrated in 1906 with her mother and sister Sonia, but without her father as he had died around her fourth birthday of tuberculosis. They initially settled on the west side of Harlem.
Selling the Modernists
Works progress work for artists
Inventing the folk art market
Later years
See also
Further reading
- Tepfer, Diane, "Edith Gregor Halpert and the Downtown Gallery Downtown (1926-1940); a Study in American Art Patronage", Ph.D. Dissertation, History of Art, University of Michigan, 1989.
- Sadik, Marvis, Edith Halpert & The Downtown Gallery, Museum of Art, Univ. Of Connecticut, Storrs, 1968.
- Halpert, Edith Gregor and The Poses Institute of Fine Arts, American Modernism: The First Wave - Painting from 1903 to 1933 / October 4 through November 10, 1963, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis Univ.
- Sotheby Parke Bernet, The Edith G. Halpert Collection of American Paintings, 1973.
- Sotheby Parke Bernet, Highly Important 19th and 20th Century American Paintings, ... from the Estate of the late Edith Gregor Halpert...Sale #3484, 1973.
- Halpert, Edith Gregor, The Downtown Gallery: American Art, 1936.
- Halpert, Edith Gregor, A Catalogue of the American Folk Art Collection of Colonial Williamsburg Collected and Presented by Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Colonial Williamsburg, 1947.
References
- ^ Pollack, Lindsay, The Girl With the Gallery: Edith Gregor Halpert And the Making of the Modern Art Market, PublicAffairs, 2006. ISBN 978-1586483029
- ^ Pollack, p. 383, 384.
- ^ Goldstein, Malcolm, Landscape with Figures: A History of Art Dealing in the United States, Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0195136739