Kennedy Galleries is one of the oldest
art galleries
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 the United States. It was founded by Hermann Wunderlich in 1874 under the name of Hermann Wunderlich & Co. When Wunderlich died in 1892, Edward G. Kennedy took over the gallery, whose name was changed in 1912 to Kennedy & Co. Kennedy retired in 1916, whereupon Herman Wunderlich became the gallery's senior partner until his death in 1951. The galleries changed their name to Kennedy Galleries in 1952.
The gallery has long specialized in
representational art
Representation is the use of signs that stand in for and take the place of something else.Mitchell, W. 1995, "Representation", in F Lentricchia & T McLaughlin (eds), ''Critical Terms for Literary Study'', 2nd edn, University of Chicago Press, Chica ...
.
During the 1950s the
Society of American Graphic Artists
The Society of American Graphic Artists (SAGA) is a not for profit national fine arts organization serving professional artists in the field of printmaking. SAGA provides its members with exhibition, reviews and networking opportunities in the Ne ...
held their annual exhibitions at the Kennedy Galleries.
In 1976 the gallery held an exhibit of Alaskan masters.
R. T. Wallen was one of only two living artists represented at that exhibit.
In 2005, the gallery closed its gallery space but continued to operate as a private dealership.
is president of the Kennedy Galleries.
References
External links
Kennedy Galleries- official site
American art dealers
1874 establishments in New York (state)
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