The Fischbach Gallery is an art gallery in

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. It was founded by Marilyn Cole Fischbach in 1960 at 799 Madison Avenue. The gallery in its early days became known for hosting the first significant solo exhibitions of now leading art world figures including

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and Gary Kuehn. In 1966 the Fishbach Gallery opened the groundbreaking exhibition Eccentric Abstraction curated by

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which is considered the first

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, art exhibition. The exhibition included Alice Adams, Louis Bourgeois, Gary Kuehn,

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, Don Potts,

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and Frank Lincoln Viner. The Fischbach Gallery would later move to two consecutive locations on 57th Street. In the 1970s Marilyn Fischbach hired Aladar Marberger as gallery director. Marberger shifted the gallery's emphasis from

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Art to

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. The gallery included artists

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Alice Dalton Brown Alice Dalton Brown (born 1939) is an American painter known for realist works that capture the light and texture of specific, if often invented, places and moments.Henry, Gerrit. "Alice Dalton Brown," ''ARTnews'', November 1983, p. 207.Kingsle ...

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Jane Freilicher Jane Freilicher (November 19, 1924 – December 9, 2014) was an American representational painter of urban and country scenes from her homes in lower Manhattan and Water Mill, Long Island. She was a member of the informal New York School beginni ...

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Knox Martin Knox Martin (February 12, 1923 – May 15, 2022) was an American painter, sculptor, and muralist. Born in Barranquilla, Colombia, he studied at the Art Students League of New York from 1946 until 1950. He was one of the leading members of the ...

, John Moore, and Neil Welliver.Cohen, Ronny
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''Artforum'', May 1991. Retrieved November 8, 2019. In the early 1980s, Marilyn Fischbach decided to take on three additional investors in the gallery, although she remained a partial owner until her death in 2003. One of the investors, Beverly Zagor, became an active partner until her death in May 2011. Another investor and active partner, Lawrence L. DiCarlo, is gallery director. The Fischbach Gallery remains open and has relocated to 210 Eleventh Avenue in New York. It focuses primarily on contemporary

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References

External links

Fischbach Gallery Website
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