Kraushaar Galleries is an

art gallery An art gallery is a room or a building in which visual art is displayed. In Western cultures from the mid-15th century, a gallery was any long, narrow covered passage along a wall, first used in the sense of a place for art in the 1590s. The lon ...

in New York City founded in 1885 by Charles W. Kraushaar, who had previously been with the European art gallery, William Schaus, Sr. The Gallery's first location on Broadway at 33rd Street where it showed Dutch and French Barbizon paintings, as well as works by Courbet, Corot, Whistler and

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. When John Kraushaar, Charles's younger brother, joined the business the gallery also began showing modern French painters: Soutine, Matisse,

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, Derain, Gauguin,

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, Roualt, Guys, Modigliani, Redon, Segonzac,

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, Van Gogh, and other late 19th- and early 20th-century artists. In 1901, at their new gallery at 260 Fifth Avenue, they exhibited the work of the Swiss-born American society painter Adolfo Müller-Ury. Later John Kraushaar began showing works by American artists, particularly Robert Henri and his circle, and the group known as The Eight, Henri, John Sloan, William Glackens, Everett Shinn, George Luks, Maurice Prendergast, Ernest Lawson and

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. He also exhibited the work of Guy Pène du Bois and

Charles Prendergast Charles Prendergast (1863–1948) was a Canadian-American Post-Impressionist artist as well as a designer and maker of picture frames. He was the younger brother of the artist, Maurice Prendergast. Life He was born on 27 May 1863 in St. John's ...

. After his brother's death in 1917, John Kraushaar continued the business. When John fell ill in the 1930s, his daughter, Antoinette M. Kraushaar, took over affairs. Upon his death in 1946, she became the owner of the gallery, a role she filled until 1988. In the 1940s newer American painters were added. Among them were

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. The gallery is now located at 74 East 79th Street and functions as a private gallery, retaining its focus art of the first half of the twentieth century.

Sources

*Clark, Lenore
''Forbes Watson: Independent revolutionary''
Kent State University Press, 2001. *Kraushaar Galleries
A History of Kraushaar Galleries

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Kraushaar GalleriesKraushaar Galleries Exhibition Catalogs from the 1920s and 1930sArticle on Kraushaar Gallery exhibition catalogs
in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries
Documenting the Gilded Age: New York City Exhibitions at the turn of the 20th Century
A New York Art Resources Consortium project. A selection of exhibition catalogs from the C.W. Kraushaar Galleries. Art museums and galleries in Manhattan Art galleries established in 1885 1885 establishments in New York (state) {{US-art-display-stub