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

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, 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 “ 9th Street Art Exhibition” of 1951 where Ward would bring forth notable

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artists including

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, Phillip Guston, Varujan Boghosian,

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, Franz Kline, Nicolas Carone, Knox Martin,

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, Ad Reinhardt, Joop Sanders, Fritz Bultman, 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 abstract expressionists of the 1950s.

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

* Olga Albizu (1924-2005) * William Baziotes (1912–1963) * Gandy Brodie (1924-1975) * James Brooks (1906–1992) * Varujan Boghosian (1927–present) *

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(1911–2010) * Fritz Bultman (1919–1985) * Nicolas Carone (1917–2010) * Giorgio Cavallon (1904–1989) * Herman Cherry (1909–1992) * Elaine de Kooning (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 (1928–2011) * Michael Goldberg (1924–2007) * Robert Goodnough (1917–2010) * Grace Hartigan (1922–2009) * Raymond Hendler (1923–1998) * Hans Hofmann (1880–1966) * Angelo Ippolito (1922–2001) * Earl Kerkam (1891–1965) * Franz Kline (1910–1962) * Albert Kotin (1907–1980) * Lee Krasner (1908–1984) * Ibram Lassaw (1913–2003) *Landes Lewitin (1892–1966) * Linda Lindeberg (1915–1973) *

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

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(1925–1992) *

(1915–1991) * Ray Parker (1922–1990) *Felix Pasilis (1922– ) * Vincent Pepi (1926-2020) * Richard Pousette-Dart (1916–1992) * Milton Resnick (1917–2004) * James Rosati (1911–1988) *Ludwig Sander (1906–1975) * Joop Sanders (1921-) * Louis Schanker (1903–1981) *David Slivka (1914–2010) * David Smith (1906–1965) * Raymond P. Spillenger (1924–2013) * Hedda Sterne (1910-2011) * Yvonne Thomas (1913–2009) * Esteban Vicente (1904–2001) * Manoucher Yektai (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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, Varujan Boghosian, Edward Dugmore, Robert Engman,

, John Ferren, Ian Hornak, Will Insley,

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, Lowell Nesbitt,

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, Larry Rivers, Leon Polk Smith, Richard Stankiewicz, Cy Twombly,

, 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

External links

Brooklyn Rail interview with Nicolas Carone''Abstract expressionism 1950s-New York School Artists of the 9th St Show Reminisce''
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