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Artists & Estates

An index of the figures represented by the gallery — by long-held estate appointment and by working relationship — drawn from the forty-seven artists shown across the gallery’s active period on 57th Street and Madison Avenue.

Viewing is by appointment only. Provenance documentation and institutional exhibition histories are available on request.

Archival interior view of the gallery’s Madison Avenue rooms, c. 1965.
Gallery interior, Madison Avenue. Photograph from the gallery archive, c. 1965.
Catalogue Note I

Three Estates Held by Long Appointment

The gallery maintains exclusive estate representation for the figures below. Holdings from each estate have entered the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among 140+ other institutions worldwide.

Hans Hofmann, untitled oil on canvas, 1961 — archival reproduction.
Estate of Hans Hofmann

Hans Hofmann

1880 – 1966

German-born American painter and teacher; a foundational figure in the transmission of Cubist and Fauvist colour theory to the New York School. The gallery has represented the Estate of Hans Hofmann continuously since 1966, the year of the artist’s death.

Held by
MoMA · Whitney · Met · Tate · Smithsonian
Sold by gallery to
27 institutional collections
Solo shows at gallery
11, 1967 – 1991
View available works from the Hofmann estate
Ralston Crawford, oil on canvas, c. 1948 — archival reproduction.
Estate of Ralston Crawford

Ralston Crawford

1906 – 1978

American Precisionist whose mature work reconciled the hard-edged geometry of industrial subjects with the chromatic intensity of Abstract Expressionism. The gallery has represented the Crawford estate since 1980, in continuous coordination with the artist’s institutional holdings.

Held by
Whitney · Met · Smithsonian · Carnegie
Sold by gallery to
18 institutional collections
Solo shows at gallery
7, 1981 – 2003
View available works from the Crawford estate
Vaclav Vytlacil, oil on canvas, c. 1942 — archival reproduction.
Estate of Vaclav Vytlacil

Vaclav Vytlacil

1892 – 1984

Czech-born American painter and instructor who studied with Hans Hofmann in Munich and was among the first Americans to translate European modernism into a working studio pedagogy. The gallery has represented the Vytlacil estate since 1986, the second anniversary of the artist’s death.

Held by
Whitney · Smithsonian · Hirshhorn
Sold by gallery to
9 institutional collections
Solo shows at gallery
4, 1987 – 1998
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Catalogue Note II

Selected Representation, 1960 – 1995

The following is a working index of the artists shown by the gallery across its active representation period. Entries are arranged alphabetically. Holdings, exhibition dates, and institutional placements are available in the printed dossier supplied at the time of viewing.

  1. 01 Milton Avery 1885 – 1965 MoMA · Whitney · Met · Tate
  2. 02 Robert Beverly Hale 1902 – 1985 Met · Smithsonian
  3. 03 Ralston Crawford 1906 – 1978 Whitney · Met · Smithsonian
  4. 04 Arthur Dove 1880 – 1946 MoMA · Met · Phillips
  5. 05 Jimmy Ernst 1920 – 1984 Whitney · Smithsonian
  6. 06 Marisol Escobar 1930 – 2016 MoMA · Whitney · Hirshhorn
  7. 07 John Ferren 1905 – 1970 Whitney · Smithsonian
  8. 08 Claire Falkenstein 1908 – 1997 MoMA · LACMA
  9. 09 Sonia Gechtoff 1926 – 2018 Whitney · Smithsonian
  10. 10 Hans Hofmann 1880 – 1966 MoMA · Whitney · Met · Tate
  11. 11 Wolf Kahn 1927 – 2020 Whitney · Met · Smithsonian
  12. 12 Lee Krasner 1908 – 1984 MoMA · Whitney · Met
  13. 13 Robert Motherwell 1915 – 1991 MoMA · Whitney · Met · Tate
  14. 14 Louise Nevelson 1899 – 1988 MoMA · Whitney · Met
  15. 15 Theodoros Stamos 1922 – 1997 Whitney · Met · Smithsonian
  16. 16 Vaclav Vytlacil 1892 – 1984 Whitney · Smithsonian · Hirshhorn

A complete printed index of the gallery’s 220+ solo exhibitions, with catalogues raisonnés and exhibition checklists, is held in the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, accession AAA-2018-dintenfass.

A Note on Institutional Placement

Where these works are held.

Works sold through the gallery program are held in the permanent collections of one hundred and forty institutions worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Gallery of Art, the Tate, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Carnegie Museum of Art.

This is not a record assembled retrospectively. The gallery’s first institutional placement — a Milton Avery landscape to the Whitney — occurred in 1962, two years after the gallery’s founding. Across the sixty-four years since, the program has placed museum-grade works directly into collections whose acquisition committees include the most exacting curators in the field. A complete tally of placements by artist and year is available to accredited institutions and qualified collectors on request.

— Catherine Dintenfass, Director. From a 2024 interview with Art in America.

Catalogue Plates

From the Inventory, in Four Public Collections

The following plates document works from the gallery’s inventory now held by named institutions. Plates are reproduced for scholarly reference; full provenance and exhibition histories are appended to the catalogue dossier.

Milton Avery, oil on canvas, c. 1962 — held by the Museum of Modern Art.
Milton Avery Oil on canvas, c. 1962 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Hans Hofmann, oil on canvas, 1958 — held by the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Hans Hofmann Oil on canvas, 1958 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Robert Motherwell, oil on canvas, 1963 — held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Robert Motherwell Oil on canvas, 1963 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Ralston Crawford, oil on canvas, 1953 — held by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Ralston Crawford Oil on canvas, 1953 Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington

Plates are reproduced by permission of the holding institutions. Catalogue numbering follows the gallery’s working dossier, revised 2024.

By Appointment

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Works from the represented estates — together with select secondary-market holdings — are presented by appointment at the gallery’s 57th Street viewing rooms. Catalogue dossiers, condition reports, and institutional provenance are prepared in advance.

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