The Stable Gallery, originally located on West 58th Street in

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, was founded in 1953 by Eleanor Ward. The Stable Gallery hosted early solo New York exhibitions for artists including Marisol Escobar, Robert Indiana and

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History

The Stable Gallery, which was originally located in an old livery stable on West 58th Street in

, received its name from the origin of its location. Initially, the gallery sold mannequins and exhibited photography that was fashion related. Eleanor Ward had received much encouragement for her gallery from important figures such as

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, and by the mid 1950s the Stable Gallery would begin to annually host a homage exhibit to the “

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” of 1951 where Ward would bring forth notable

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artists including

Willem de Kooning Willem de Kooning (; ; April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist. He was born in Rotterdam and moved to the United States in 1926, becoming an American citizen in 1962. In 1943, he married painter ...

Phillip Guston Philip Guston (born Phillip Goldstein, June 27, 1913 – June 7, 1980), was a Canadian American painter, printmaker, muralist and draftsman. Early in his five decade career, muralist David Siquieros described him as one of "the most promising ...

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, Howard Kanovitz,

Franz Kline Franz Kline (May 23, 1910 – May 13, 1962) was an American painter. He is associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1940s and 1950s. Kline, along with other action painters like Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Robert M ...

, Nicolas Carone,

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 N ...

Robert Motherwell Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 – July 16, 1991) was an American abstract expressionist painter, printmaker, and editor of ''The Dada Painters and Poets: an Anthology''. He was one of the youngest of the New York School, which also inc ...

Jackson Pollock Paul Jackson Pollock (; January 28, 1912August 11, 1956) was an American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was widely noticed for his " drip technique" of pouring or splashing liquid household paint onto a ho ...

Robert Rauschenberg Milton Ernest "Robert" Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 – May 12, 2008) was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the Pop art movement. Rauschenberg is well known for his Combines (1954–1964), a group of artwor ...

, Ad Reinhardt,

Joop Sanders Joop Sanders (born October 6, 1921) is a Dutch-American painter, educator, and founding member of the American Abstract Expressionist group. He is the youngest member of the first generation of the New York School. Sanders' work is held in th ...

Fritz Bultman Fritz Bultman (April 4, 1919 – July 20, 1985) was an American abstract expressionist painter, sculptor, and collagist and a member of the New York School of artists. Biography A. Fred Bultman was the second child and only son of A. Fred an ...

, and

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to exhibit. This yearly event, which would come to be known as the "Stable Annual", was a great success for the gallery. The Stable Annuals represented what came to be known as the New York School

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of the 1950s.

List of artists who participated in all the Stable Annuals 1953–57

* Olga Albizu (1924-2005) * William Baziotes (1912–1963) *

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(1924-1975) * James Brooks (1906–1992) *

(1927–present) *

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(1911–2010) *

(1919–1985) * Nicolas Carone (1917–2010) *

Giorgio Cavallon Giorgio Cavallon (March 3, 1904 – December 22, 1989) was a founding member of the American Abstract Artists and a pioneer Abstract Expressionist. Biography Giorgio Cavallon was born March 3, 1904 in Sorio, a hamlet of the municipality of G ...

(1904–1989) *Herman Cherry (1909–1992) *

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(1918–1989) *

(1904–1997) * Enrico Donati (1909–2008) *Friedel Dzubas (1915-1994) *Fred Farr (1914–1973) *John Ferren (1905–1970) * Perle Fine (1908–1988) *

Helen Frankenthaler Helen Frankenthaler (December 12, 1928 – December 27, 2011) was an American abstract expressionist painter. She was a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting. Having exhibited her work for over six decades (early 1950s ...

(1928–2011) * Michael Goldberg (1924–2007) * Robert Goodnough (1917–2010) * Grace Hartigan (1922–2009) *

Raymond Hendler Raymond Hendler (1923-1998) was an American artist known for his action painting. Biography Hendler was born in 1923 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied at the Philadelphia College of Art and went on to serve in the United States Army ...

(1923–1998) *

Hans Hofmann Hans Hofmann (March 21, 1880 – February 17, 1966) was a German-born American painter, renowned as both an artist and teacher. His career spanned two generations and two continents, and is considered to have both preceded and influenced Abstrac ...

(1880–1966) * Angelo Ippolito (1922–2001) * Earl Kerkam (1891–1965) *

(1910–1962) * Albert Kotin (1907–1980) *

Lee Krasner Lenore "Lee" Krasner (born Lena Krassner; October 27, 1908 – June 19, 1984) was an American abstract expressionist painter, with a strong speciality in collage. She was married to Jackson Pollock. Although there was much cross-pollination be ...

(1908–1984) * Ibram Lassaw (1913–2003) *Landes Lewitin (1892–1966) *Linda Lindeberg (1915–1973) *

Conrad Marca-Relli Conrad Marca-Relli (born Corrado Marcarelli; June 5, 1913 – August 29, 2000) was an American artist who belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been reco ...

(1913–2000) * Marcia Marcus (1928) * Nicholas Marsicano (1908–1991) *

Joan Mitchell Joan Mitchell (February 12, 1925 – October 30, 1992) was an American artist who worked primarily in painting and printmaking, and also used pastel and made other works on paper. She was an active participant in the New York School of artis ...

(1925–1992) *

(1915–1991) * Ray Parker (1922–1990) *Felix Pasilis (1922– ) * Richard Pousette-Dart (1916–1992) *

Milton Resnick Milton Resnick (January 7, 1917 – March 12, 2004) was an American artist noted for abstract paintings that coupled scale with density of incident. It was not uncommon for some of the largest paintings to weigh in excess three hundred pounds, a ...

(1917–2004) *

James Rosati James Rosati (1911 in Washington, Pennsylvania 1911 – 1988 in New York City) was an American abstract sculptor. He is best known for creating an outdoor sculpture in New York: a stainless steel '' Ideogram.'' Life Born near Pittsburg ...

(1911–1988) *Ludwig Sander (1906–1975) *

(1921-) * Louis Schanker (1903–1981) *David Slivka (1914–2010) * David Smith (1906–1965) *

Raymond P. Spillenger Raymond P. Spillenger (October 24, 1924 – November 20, 2013) was an American painter associated with the New York School. Biography Spillenger was born on October 24, 1924, in Brooklyn, to Herbert Spillenger, a postal worker, and Minnie Pine ...

(1924–2013) * Hedda Sterne (1910-2011) * Yvonne Thomas (1913–2009) *

Esteban Vicente Esteban Vicente Pérez (January 20, 1903 – January 10, 2001) was an American painter born in Turégano, Spain. He was one of the first generation of New York School abstract expressionists. He identified as an antifascist. Early life Esteban ...

(1904–2001) *

Manoucher Yektai Manoucher Yektai (December 22, 1921 – November 19, 2019) was an Iranian-born American artist. He is associated with New York School art movement. Early life and education Born in Tehran, Iran, Yektai dropped out of Tehran University withou ...

(1922–2019) * Wilfrid Zogbaum (1915–1965) *

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(1931) However, the first and second generation Abstract Expressionist artists began to go in their own directions, and new

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in 1960s including Pop art would become more currently fashionable. In light of those developments Ward expanded the gallery beyond having only a permanent stable of artists, and began bringing forth artists of various movements to exhibit, including:

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, Edward Dugmore, Robert Engman, Marisol Escobar, John Ferren, Ian Hornak, Will Insley,

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, Lowell Nesbitt,

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, Leon Polk Smith, Richard Stankiewicz,

Cy Twombly Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly Jr. (; April 25, 1928July 5, 2011) was an American painter, sculptor and photographer. He belonged to the generation of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Twombly is said to have influenced younger artists such as ...

, and Wilfred Zogbaum. The Stable Gallery organized

’s first one-man show in November 1962, after

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turned him down; the exhibition included eight of the 12 single images of Marilyn Monroe that came to be known as the “Flavor Marilyns,” because each had a colored background.Carol Vogel (April 3, 2014)
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''. By doing this Eleanor Ward established a reputation for the Stable Gallery as a meeting place for both great emerging and established artists of the time. By 1960, the Stable Gallery had moved to 33 East 74th Street in New York, a location that possessed enough space for the gallery exhibition area. The building was also large enough to contain living quarters for Ward on the ground floor, opening to the garden at the rear. 1970 would mark the closure of the Stable Gallery, which came about very quickly and unexpectedly after Eleanor Ward stated that: due to the evolving commercialization of Fine Art and her personal loss of interest in what was becoming contemporary in the art world, that she would prefer to act as a private art consultant rather than operate a gallery, which she considered to have evolved into simply a business and no longer a passion.

References

General references

* * * * * Marika Herskovic
''New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists,''
(New York School Press, 2000.) . p. 10–39

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