And now, I, myself, preside over Spanierman Gallery, LLC, located at 45 East 58th Street, right between those old memories.

For more than a half century, Spanierman Gallery, LLC, has been dedicated to dealing in the finest American paintings and sculpture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In September of 1994, the gallery moved from 50 East 78th Street (its home for almost thirty years), to a luxurious new location at 45 East 58th Street, directly across the street from the Four Seasons Hotel. With 12,000 square feet of space, the gallery presents exhibitions of the highest quality, including loans from museums and private collections and works from our own holdings.

In 2004 the gallery opened Spanierman Gallery at East Hampton in the prominent Newcourt Mall. Its exhibitions have focused on postwar and contemporary art of the East End of Long Island, an area that has been the longest running artists’ colony in America, beginning with William Sidney Mount and Thomas Moran in the nineteenth century and continuing in the mid-twentieth century, when Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Willem de Kooning, and many others generated ground-breaking icons of the Abstract Expressionist movement at their East End homes and studios. Today artists continue to derive inspiration from eastern Long Island’s shores and countryside.

In 2006 Spanierman Modern opened next door to our existing gallery. Its shows have featured artists from the early twentieth century to the present.

The gallery is distinguished for its scholarship and actively supports research in American art. Below is the list of our extensive exhibitions and publications, which have provided critical contributions to the field. In addition the gallery is undertaking the catalogues raisonné of the art of the American Impressionists, John Henry Twachtman, Theodore Robinson, and Willard Metcalf, on which I am the coauthor along with the notable scholars on each of these artists. These publications will be definitive reference sources. The gallery is also sponsoring the Lloyd Goodrich and Edith Havens Goodrich Record of Works by Winslow Homer. We have completed the first three volumes of this five-volume catalogue raisonné. This has been a monumental accomplishment for which I am proud.

In 2004, the gallery sponsored Winslow Homer: Masterworks from the Adirondacks, held at the New York Historical Association / Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York. In 1989 The Power and the Glory: Pittsburgh Industrial Landscapes by Aaron Henry Gorson traveled to the Henry Clay Frick Museum, University of Pittsburgh. In 2006 John Twachtman: A “Painter’s Painter” traveled to the Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich (Connecticut). In 2007, the gallery organized the exhibition, Fitz Henry Lane and Mary Blood Mellen: Old Mysteries and New Discoveries, in partnership with the Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Massachusetts. This show was held both in New York and Gloucester. In the following year, three shows organized by the gallery traveled to museums: Over Seven Decades: The Art of Gershon Benjamin was shown at the Cape Ann Museum; Emile A. Gruppé (1896–1978) was shown at the Rockport Art Association; and Coast and Countryside: American Art of the Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth Centuries was held at the Pensacola Museum of Art, Florida.

The gallery has placed works of art in major public, private, and corporate collections. Below is a partial list of museums that have purchased works from the Gallery:

Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco The Ackland Museum of Art, Chapel Hill, NC Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR The Art Gallery of Ontario The Art Institute of Chicago The Art Museum, Princeton University, NJ Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, PA Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso, IN The Brooklyn Museum, NY Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, WY Cincinnati Art Museum The Cleveland Museum of Art The Columbus Museum, GA Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, FL The Denver Art Museum Desert Caballeros Western Museum, Wickenburg, AZ The Detroit Institute of Arts The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC The George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Fine Arts, Museum, Winter Park, FL Greenville County Museum of Art, SC The High Museum of Art, Atlanta The Hispanic Society of America, New York Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY Huntington Library and Art Collection, San Marino, CA The Indianapolis Museum of Art J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, CA The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, MS

Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI The Louvre, Paris Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, VA The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Minnesota Museum of American Art, Saint Paul Montclair Museum of Art, NJ Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art, Utica, NY The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Museum of Fine Arts of St. Petersburg, FL The Museum at Stony Brook, Long Island, NY National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, WY The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, FL Orlando Museum of Art, FL The Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA Portland Art Museum, OR R.W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, LA San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Spencer Museum, Lawrence, KS Stark Museum of Art, TX Statue of Liberty National Monument & Ellis Island Immigration Museum, New York Tennessee Botanical Gardens and Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood, Nashville Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Lugano, Switzerland Toledo Museum of Art, OH Union League Club of Chicago Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT The White House Historical Association, Washington, D.C. Worcester Museum of Art, MA Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT Yellowstone Park Foundation, Bozeman, MT

The gallery’s exhibitions and publications include (SEH, Spanierman Gallery at East Hampton) (SM Spanierman Modern):

Paintings by Winslow Homer from the Cooper Union (1966)
John Henry Twachtman: Paintings and Pastels (1968)
Masterworks by Henry Farny (1981)
Masters of the West (1984)
Twachtman in Gloucester: His Last Years, 1900-1902 (1987)
Frank W. Benson: The Impressionist Years (1988)
In the Sunlight: The Floral and Figurative Art of J. H. Twachtman (1989)
The Power and the Glory: Pittsburgh Industrial Landscapes by Aaron Henry Gorson, Henry Clay Frick Museum, University of Pittsburgh (1989)
The Spencer Collection of American Art (1990)
Ten American Painters (1990)
Dialogues with Nature: Works by Charles Salis Kaelin (1858-1929) (1990)
Myron Lechay (1992)
American Painters in Giverny, 1885-1920 (1993)
William Merritt Chase: Master of American Impressionism (1994-1995)
Painters of Cape Ann, 1840-1940: One Hundred Years in Gloucester and Rockport (1996)
Wilfrid-Gabriel de Glehn: John Singer Sargent’s Painting Companion (1997)
Abraham J. Bogdanove: Painter of Maine (1997)
Carl W. Peters: A Regional Impressionist- Landscapes from Rochester to Rockport (1998)
Theodore Wores: Paintings from California to Japan (1998)
125 Years of American Watercolor Painting (1998)
Robert Emmett Owen: The Spirit of New England (1998)
Natural Habitat: Contemporary Wildlife Artists of North America (1998)
Twelve American Masterpieces (1998)
Annie Gooding Sykes: An American Watercolorist Rediscovered (1998)
Commerce and Agriculture Bringing Wealth to Detroit: A Mural by Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1998)
Dan Ostermiller: An Animal Sculptor (1998)
Nikolai Efimovich Timkov: Master Russian Impressionist (1999)
American Painting: 1838-1940 (1999)
Arthur Wesley Dow: His Art and His Influence (1999)
A Noble Tradition Revisited: Contemporary American Still Life (2000)
American Gone Modern (2000)
Robert Emmett Owen (1878-1957): The Season of New England (2000)
William Matthews: The Cowboy’s Life (2000)
Wildlife Art-2000 (2000)
Tranquil America: A Century of Art, 1840-1940 (2000)
200 Years of American Watercolors, Pastels & Drawings (2001)
Dan Ostermiller: One Man Show (2001)
Abraham J. Bogdanove (1886-1946): Monhegan Summers (2001)
Terry DeLapp (2001)
110 Years of American Art: 1830-1940 (2001)
The Christmas Show: Great Things in Small Packages (2001)
Paul Ching-Bor: Echoes in Steel (2002)
Ronald Frontin: Recent Paintings (2002)
The Friedman Collection: Artists of Chicago (2002)
Honoré Sharrer: Selected Paintings and Drawings (2002)
Jacob Collins: Plein-air Sketches (2002)
Spirit of America: American Art from 1829 to 1970 (2002)
James Daugherty (1887-1974): Late Abstractions (2002)
Art for the New Collector: 1840–2001 (2002)
Painters of the Peconic: Edith Prellwitz and Henry Prellwitz (2002)
Gallery Selections 2002: American Paintings, 1830-1930 (2002)
Hayley Lever (1876-1958) (2003)
John Wilde: Recent Work and Ann Lofquist: New England Landscapes (2003)
Willard Metcalf: Yankee Impressionist (2003)
Joseph Raphael (1869-1950): An Artistic Journey (2003)
Peter Poskas: A Sense of Place (2004)
Lynn Veitzer (2004)
Art or the New Collector III (2004)
James Daugherty (2004)
Terry DeLapp California Reveries (2004)
Edith Prellwitz and Henry Prellwitz: Painters of the Peconic (2004)
Aaron Harry Gorson: The Legacy of Art and Steel (2004)
Charles Warren Eaton: (1857-1937):An American Tonalist Rediscovered (2004)
Toward Simplicity: New Landscapes by Pamela Sztybel (2005)
Paul Ching-Bor: High Anxiety—New York City (2005)
Zulma Parker Steele (1881-1979) and Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922) (2005)
Fine American Art from 1845-1960 (2005)
Long Island Landscapes: 1870s-1920s (SEH, 2005)
Art for the New Collector IV (2005)
Artists and Nature on Eastern Long Island: 1940s to the Present (SEH, 2005)
William Matthews (2005)
Dan Ostermiller (2005)
Art and the Garden (2005)
Maine: A Legacy in Painting, 1830 to the Present (2005)
The Poetic Vision: American Tonalism (2005)
Jonas Lie (1880-1940) (2005)
Recent Paintings by Kate Lehman and Sarah Lamb (2006)
Betty Parsons: A Painting Retrospective (SEH, 2006)
Two Decades of Sculpture by Immi C. Storrs (SEH, 2006)
John Twachtman: A “Painter’s Painter” (2006); traveled to Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut
Art for the New Collector V (2006)
Flaming June (SM, 2006)
Jonas Lie (2006)
American Paintings: 1850-1965 (2006)
Long Island Abstraction (SM, 2006)
Jimmy Ernst: Five Decades of Paintings and Works on Paper (SEH, 2006)
Charlotte Park: Abstract Expressionist Paintings, 1950-63 (SEH, 2006)
Twentieth-Century Abstraction: Works on Paper (SEH, 2006)
Long Island Abstraction, 1950s to the Present (SEH, 2006)
Abraham Bogdanove: The Lure of Maine (2007)
Dan Christensen (2007)
Fitz Henry Lane and Mary Blood Mellen: Old Mysteries and New Discoveries (2007)
Gary Komarin: Mrs. Langdon Afterward (2007)
The Road Less Traveled: New England Landscapes by Robert Emmett Owen (2007)
Long Island Landscapes (SEH, 2007)
Six East End Artists (SEH, 2007)
On Paper (SM, 2007)
Meghan Gerety: American Arcadia—New Drawings (SM, 2007)
Jasmina Danowski: Surf On By (SM, 2007)
Sculpture by Elaine Grove (SEH, 2007)
Uniform: South Africa’s New Clothes (SM, 2007)
Paintings by Dan Christensen (SEH, 2007)
Drawings of East Hampton by Peter Moran (SEH, 2007)
Women and Abstraction: Then and Now (SEH, 2007)
Clifford Smith (2007)
Burgoyne Diller and Hard-Edge Abstraction: Underpinnings and Continuity (SM, 2007)
Gertrude Greene: Abstract Paintings, Collages, Drawings, and Sculpture (1930-56) (SEH, 2007)
Argentine Arcadia (2007)
Over Seven Decades: The Art of Gershon Benjamin (2008)
Charlotte Park (2008)
Totem Materia: Sculpture and Paintings by Betty Parsons (2008)
Pamela Szytbel: Recent Paintings (2008)
Works on Paper, 2008 (2008)
Balcomb Greene: A Retrospective (2008)
Sarah Lamb (2008)
Emile Gruppe (2008)
Teo Gonzalez (SM, 2008)
Carolyn Carr (SM, 2008)
Coast and Countryside: American Art of the Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth Centuries (Pensacola Museum of Art, Florida, 2008)
Tales—New Works by Jasmina Danowski (SM, 2008)
Present Tense: A Group Exhibition Curated by Don Christensen and Mary Heilmann (SM, 2008) Dan Rizzie (SM, 2008)
Light of Spring (SEH, 2008)
Light of Spring II (SEH, 2008)
An East End Tradition: Six Artists (SEH, 2008)
Paige Peterson (SEH, 2008)
Frank Wimberley (SEH, 2008)
East End Abstraction: Six Directions (SEH, 2008)
Clifford Smith (SM, 2009)
The Mark of the Hand (SM, 2009)

The gallery is a member of the following organizations:

Art and Antique Dealers League of America (Mr. Spanierman is currently Vice Chairperson of the Executive Committee) Appraisers Association of America Antiques Council Confederation Internationale des Negociants en Oeuvres d’Art

Fine Art Dealers Association Thomas Cole Foundation (Mr. Spanierman is currently Executive Director and President) Thomas Cole House (Mr. Spanierman is currently on the Board of Advisors)