Forum Gallery has been a leader in the field of modern and contemporary figurative art since its beginning in 1961. The gallery was founded by Bella Fishko, and is a founding member of the Art Dealers Association of America. Forum Gallery represents Odd Nerdrum, William Beckman, Robert Cottingham, Steven Assael and thirty-two more contemporary artists; as well as the Estates of Raphael Soyer, Chaim Gross, Bernard Karfiol, and Hugo Robus. Forum Gallery is the American representative of Xenia Hausner, Michael Leonard and David Mach among others. For more than four decades, Forum Gallery has maintained an important inventory of American modernist and social realist art, European modernism and figurative art from 1900 to the present day. Forum Gallery exhibits at art fairs in Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles and at The Art Show at the Park Avenue Armory in New York. During its forty years in the Fine Art field, Forum Gallery has placed works in every major American museum and in private collections throughout the world.