The Charles Egan Gallery opened at 63 East 57th Street ( Manhattan) in about 1945, when Charles Egan was in his mid-30s. Egan's artists helped him fix up the gallery: " Isamu Noguchi did the lighting... Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline painted the walls." A group show the next year included works by de Kooning, Joseph Stella, Josef Albers, Mark Rothko, Paul Klee and

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In 1948, Charles Egan Gallery held a solo exhibition of de Kooning's black and white paintings.

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wrote that because of this exhibition, "de Kooning was established as a major

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... soon to be the most influential artist of his generation." In 1949 Joseph Cornell had his first show at the Charles Egan Gallery. In 1950,

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had his first show at the Egan Gallery, where he continued to show until 1955. In 1952 George McNeil (artist), George McNeil had his first show at the Egan Gallery, and subsequent solo shows in 1953 and 1954, and where he continued to show until the mid-1950s. In 1954 Knox Martin had his first one-man show at the Charles Egan Gallery. Among the artists Mr. Egan showed were Louise Bourgeois, Harry Bowden,

, George McNeil (artist), George McNeil, Elias Goldberg, Peter Golfinopoulos, Philip Guston, Raoul Hague, Julius Hatofsky, Franz Kline, Isamu Noguchi, Noguchi, Reuben Nakian, Robert Rauschenberg, Aaron Siskind, Jack Tworkov and Esteban Vicente.review
by Knox Martin, retrieved October 10, 2008 The gallery moved to the Fuller Building at 41 East 57th Street in New York City during the 1950s and closed in 1972.

References

Books

*Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan
"De Kooning : an American master,"
(New York: A.A. Knopf, 2004.)

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