Stable Gallery
The Stable Gallery was an art gallery in New York. It was founded in 1953 by Eleanor Ward. The gallery was in the 1950s and 60s an important exhibition venue and meeting place for numerous renowned artists of American modernism. In 1962, the first solo exhibition by Robert Indiana took place here, in the same year presented his first Andy Warhol Pop Art images in the gallery.
History
The Stable Gallery was originally located in a former stable building at 58th Street in Manhattan and was named according to the former use of the building. Initially, the gallery sold mannequins and fashion photographs showed. Eleanor Ward (1911-1984), who had started her career in the fashion industry as an assistant to Christian Dior, quickly received encouragement. As a kind of " homage" to the groundbreaking 9th Street Art Exhibition of 1951 showed the Stable Gallery from 1953 to 1957 on an annual basis works of well-known Abstract Expressionists such as Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Knox Martin, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt and Jack Tworkov. This highly successful annual exhibition event became known as " Stable Annual" in art circles soon. When the first and second generation of Abstract Expressionists smashing new directions and the Pop Art was determinative, Ward expanded the gallery and led artists of different artistic styles in the exhibitions together as Joseph Cornell, Edward Dugmore, John Ferren, Ian Hornak, Lowell Nesbitt, Conrad Marca - Relli, Joan Mitchell, Isamu Noguchi, Larry Rivers, Richard Stankiewicz, Cy Twombly, Jack Tworkov and Wilfred Zogbaum. With this mixed exhibition concept Eleanor Ward made the Stable Gallery attractive meeting point for emerging and established artists of their time.
In 1960, Eleanor Ward moved the gallery in a townhouse in the 33 East 74th Street. The new premises offered more space and Ward moved into the rooms on the upper floor of the gallery. During the 1960s, new artists such as Alex Katz, Robert Indiana, the representational sculptor Marisol and Andy Warhol were added. After differences with their " workhorse " Alex Katz Ward was the 1962 Newcomer Warhol the chance to show his new works in November, the. " Best month " of the New York gallery Thus, the Stable Gallery an exhibition of Warhol's pop-art silkscreens showed on November 6 first time in 1962. In the same year here Robert Indiana had shown his first New York solo exhibition. In 1964, Warhol's Brillo Box sensational exhibition at the Warhol, the gallery shortly in a " pop-art storage room" transformed. The peer reviewed by numerous critics show cemented Warhol's artistic reputation immensely. Shortly thereafter, Ward and Warhol threw due to financial disagreements.
In 1970, Eleanor Ward, the Stable Gallery surprising. By his own admission, she had lost with the increasing commercialization of the interest in contemporary art and would prefer to dedicate the work as a private art experts, instead of a gallery to run, which is only business instead of a passion. Eleanor Ward died in January 1984.