Sragow Gallery specializes in American Art from the 1930’s- 40’s, and early 1950’s including the WPA era; African American Art and prints from the Hollander Workshop, 1964-72, including Abstract Expressionist prints by artists of the New York School.

We are the exclusive representative of the prints of Elizabeth Catlett and Alice Neel; the works of John Wilson; the paintings of self-taught artist Bessie Nickens (age 97!) and the Hollander Workshop.

The Gallery works closely with collectors, both new and established in helping to build collections. We provide art advisory services as well as appraisals. We have placed works in major museum collections and our inventory is consistently drawn from for major museum exhibitions and catalogs. Works include prints, drawings, photographs, paintings and sculpture.

History

Sragow Gallery was established in 1974 by Ellen Sragow, a member of the International Fine Print Dealer's Association and The Appraisers Association of America. The Gallery began by exhibiting the work of then emerging artists Ida Applebroog, Jeff Koons and Richard Prince among others. Over the years, works by major photographers, installation artists, sculptors and contemporary painters were exhibited.

In 1982 the Gallery began to exhibit works by WPA era artists. The exhibitions of works by Harry Gottlieb, Riva Helfond, Minna Citron, Leonard Pytlak, Hugh Mesibov and Mark Freeman were instrumental in creating interest in this once neglected period of American art. In 1985 Ellen Sragow organized a symposium on the WPA , 'Ten Crucial Years: The Department of U. S. Government Sponsored Artists Programs, 1933-1943' for the Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Collection of Decorative and Propaganda Arts in Miami, Florida. This brought together a panel of artists who had not seen each other in over fifty years and further established Sragow Gallery as a leading source of fine prints from the WPA era.

In 1984 Sragow Gallery exhibited the work of Joseph Delaney and helped to organize an exhibition of his work for Rutgers University. It created an art collection for a bank in Chicago and arranged for exhibitions in corporate settings, such as the photographs of P. H. Polk. The Gallery started to focus and specialize in African American prints from the 1930’s and 40’s and has been exhibiting works by African American artists, expanding its inventory to include contemporary drawings, photographs, paintings and sculptures and works by self-taught artists.

Since 1981, Sragow Gallery has been representing the Hollander Workshop . It was run by Tamarind trained, Master Printer, Irwin Hollander who printed the majority of the most important American Abstract Expressionist prints of the late 1960’s. Painters such as; De Kooning, Guston, Motherwell, and Tworkov made some of their first lithographs in his innovative workshop. Prints by over 40 artists including;Cage, Francis, Lichtenstein, Nevelson, Rosenquist, Steinberg and Vicente were published by the workshop. The Gallery later included prints by Michael Goldberg, Leon Goldin, George McNeil, and Milton Resnick.

Gallery Inventory

American Art: 1930-50's including WPA era

Ida Abelman Anna Barry Fred Becker Theresa Bernstein Minna Citron Max Arthur Cohn Howard Cook Konrad Cramer James Daugherty Adolf Dehn Stephen Dimitroff Mabel Dwight Ray Euffa Ernest Fiene Louise Freedman Mark Freeman Isac Friedlander Hugo Gellert

Henry Glintenkamp Harry Gottlieb Blanche Grambs Hananiah Harari Albert Heckman Riva Helfond Ernest Hopf Mervin Jules Charles Keller Rockwell Kent Walter Kuhlman Yasuo Kuniyoshi Louis Lozowick Stanton MacDonald -Wright Helen Malta Bea Mandelman Hugh Mesibov

Elizabeth Olds Angelo Pinto Leonard Pytlak Anton Refregier Rolf Scarlettt William Sharp Alex Stavenitz Harry Sternberg James Turnbull Hyman Warsager Lawrence Nelson Wilbur

Hollander Workshop: 1964-1972, The New York School, Abstract Expressionist prints and Contemporary prints.

Annie Albers Pierre Alechinsky Bill Brice John Cage D’Archangelo Willem de Kooning Richard Diebenkorn Jim Dine Perle Fine Jean -Michele Folon Sam Francis Antonio Frasconi Sonia Gechtoff Nancy Genn *Michael Goldberg Leon Goldin John Grillo *Red Grooms Philip Guston

John Hultberg Reuben Kadish Mike Kanemitzu *Alex Katz Allan Kaprow Ellsworth Kelly James Kelley Karl Knaths Roy Lichtenstein Richard Lindner Jaques Lipchitz *George McNeil Maryan, Maryan Carl Morris Robert Morris Robert Motherwell Shiko Munakata *Alice Neel Estate Louise Nevelson Don Nice

Nathan Oliviera Philip Perlstein Henry Pearson *Milton Resnick Larry Rivers James Rosenquist Moses Soyer Rafael Soyer Saul Steinberg Peter Takal Walasse Ting Jack Tworkow Esteban Vicente Paul Waldman Hugo Weber Ulfert Wilke Guy Williiams Emerson Woelffer Adja Yunkers

* indicates an artist not published by the Hollander Workshop

African American Art, 1920's -present

Emma Amos John Biggers Calvin Burnett Elizabeth Catlett Ernest Crichlow Allan Rohan Crite James Denmark John Dowell Herbert Gentry Richard Hunt

Reggie Gammon Reginald K. Gee Jacob Lawrence Hughie Lee-Smith Al Loving William Majors Bessie Nickens Joseph Norman Hayward Oubré

Howardena Pindell Moira Pernambuco Charles Sallee Clarissa Sligh Morgan Smith Ann Tanksley Dox Thrash James Wells John Wilson Paula Wilson Hale Woodruff