Jefferson Place Gallery
The Jefferson Place Gallery was an art gallery in Washington, D.C., founded in 1957 and closed in 1974.[1][2] It had been located at 1216 Connecticut Street, NW in Washington, D.C.. The gallery was associated with the Washington Color School artists.
| Formation | 1957 |
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| Dissolved | October 1, 1974 |
| Type | arts organization, art gallery |
| Headquarters | 1216 Connecticut Street, NW, Washington, D.C., United States |
Key people | William Howard Calfee, Robert Franklin Gates, Helene Herzbrun, Mary Orwen, Ben Summerford, Alice Denney, Nesta Dorrance
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History
The Jefferson Place Gallery was initially founded in 1957 as a cooperative gallery,[3] by five current and former art professors at American University, William Howard Calfee, Robert Franklin Gates, Helene Herzbrun, Mary Ryan Orwen, and Ben Summerford.[4] Alice Denney, served as the first gallery director. Other artists who joined the cooperative in 1957 were George Bayliss, Lothar Brabanski, Colin Greenly, Leonard Maurer, Kenneth Noland, and Baltimore-based artist Shelby Shackelford.
Nesta Dorrance acquired the gallery from Alice Denney in 1961, when she left to organize the Washington Gallery of Modern Art.[5] Dorrance ran it until it closed in October 1974.
Legacy
The gallery exhibited "advanced art" and was associated with Washington Color School, a color field, post-painterly abstraction and lyrical abstraction for a number of years, and was a major Washington outlet for that art.
The competitors in contemporary art with Nesta Dorrance's Jefferson Place Gallery were Henri Gallery [Henrietta Ersham], Pyramid Gallery [Ramon Osuna and Luis Lastra] and later, Protetch-Rivkin Gallery [Max Protetch and Harold Rivkin].
Artists
Some artists who also exhibited at Jefferson Place Gallery: Antoinette Pinchot Bradlee, William Christenberry, Gene Davis, Willem De Looper, William Eggleston, Sam Gilliam,[6] John Gossage, Valerie Hollister,[5] Sheila Isham,[5] Jennie Lea Knight, Rockne Krebs, Blaine Larson, Howard Mehring,[5] Mary Pinchot Meyer, David Moy, Roberto Polo, V. V. Rankine, Paul Reed (artist),[5] Eric Rudd, Yuri Schwebler,[5] Roy Slade,[5] D. Jack Solomon, David Staton,[5] Elliot Thompson, Hilda Shapiro Thorpe,[5] Frederic Matys Thursz, Franklin White,[5] John P. Wise, Mary Orwen,[4] Carroll Sockwell,[7] and Ed Zerne.[5]
References
- "Jefferson Place Gallery records, 1957-1971". sova.si.edu. Archives of American Art. Retrieved 2021-08-31.
- "In the galleries: Stable's spaces make room for lots of art and much conversation". Washington Post. February 28, 2020. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2021-08-31.
- "Making a Scene: Jefferson Place". American University. 2017. Retrieved 2021-08-31.
- "Cody Gallery Presents Mary Ryan Orwen Women of Jefferson Place Gallery". East City Art. June 4, 2019. Retrieved 2021-09-01.
- "Archives Directory for the History of Collecting, Jefferson Place Gallery". The Frick Collection. Retrieved 2021-08-31.
- "Oral history interview with Sam Gilliam, 1989 Nov. 4-11". Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2021-09-01.
- "Artist's Black Painting Praised by D.C. Critic". Jet. 39. Johnson Publishing Company. 1971-03-04.
Further reading
- The Corcoran & Washington Art. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Roy Slade (introduction). Baltimore, MD: Garamond Press. 1976. LCCN 76-42098.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - Washington Art, catalog of exhibitions at State University College at Potsdam, NY & State University of New York at Albany, 1971 [no copyright or LCCC # listed], Introduction by Renato G. Danese, printed by Regal Art Press, Troy NY.
- The Vincent Melzac Collection: Modernist American Art Featuring New York Abstract Expressionism and Washington Color Painting. Ellen Gross Landau (introduction), Barbara Rose (notes), Walter Hopps (forward). Washington, D.C.: Garamond/Pridemark Press, Corcoran Gallery of Art. 1971. LCCN 75-153646.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - Herzbrun, Helene M. (Spring 1963). "The Visual Experience: An Introduction to Art". Art Journal. College Art Association. 22 (3): 168. doi:10.2307/774444. JSTOR 774444.
- Richard, Paul (April 13, 2008). "A Tribute for a Washington Painter by Way of Holland; Willem de Looper". The Washington Post. p. M08.
- New Sculpture: Baltimore, Washington, Richmond. [Exhibition] October 9 - November 15, 1970 (exhibition). Corcoran Gallery of Art, Renato G. Danese (introduction). 1970. OCLC 00422337.
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External links
- Thomas Downing Bio
- Barbara Freeman Bio
- Ben L. Summerford Bio
- Thomas George Bio38.907016°N 77.042002°W