The gallery has hosted exhibitions on "Woman's Work" (1989), "Painters of the Harcourt Studio" (1992) and "Mirror of the Times, Newburyport Painters Around the Turn of the Century" (1995) as well as retrospectives on Carl Peters, Marion Campbell Hawthorne and George Harvey.

With over thirty years experience in this field, Sandra Lepore, owner of the gallery, has spearheaded exhibitions on Leslie Prince Thompson (St. Botolph Club - 1992) and Rosamond Smith Bouve (Cape Ann Historical Assoc. - 1993) as well as being the curator for the first retrospective on Laura Coombs Hills (The Historical Society of Old Newbury - 1996).

We are actively purchasing American and European paintings and drawings from the 19th and 20th Century. We are particularly interested in the following:

Women painters (or important paintings by 2nd or 3d tier women) particularly Lilian W. Hale, Ellen D. Hale, Laura C. Hills, Theresa Bernstein, Gretchen Rogers, Rosamond Smith Bouve, Cecilia Beaux, Gertrude Fiske, Jane Peterson, Elizabeth Roberts.

Artists painting in New England (subject matter) from John Twachtman, Arthur W. Dow, John Leslie Breck, Frank Duveneck, Maurice Prendergast, Willard Metcalf, etc. to G.L. Noyes, Frederick Mulhaupt and Harry Vincent.

Boston School artists, especially Edmund C. Tarbell, Frank Benson, Joseph DeCamp, William Paxton and William Morris Hunt.

Newburyport related material and/or works by artists associated with this area (Laura Hills, J. Appleton Brown, Alfred T. Bricher, C.H. Davis, Dennis Bunker, Martin Johnson Heade, Agnes Brown and Ethel Reed.)

Still life paintings, especially Hermann Dudley Murphy, Elizabeth Paxton, Laura Coombs Hills, Emil Carlsen, Wilton Lockwood, and Martin Johnson Heade.