Weyhe Gallery , founded in 1919 in New York City, is an art gallery specializing in prints. Now in Mountain Desert, Maine.
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History
Erhard Weyhe (1883-1972) founded Weyhe Gallery in 1919. He also operates a bookstore, Weyhe bookstore, at the same location on 794 Lexington Avenue. Weyhe had immigrated to the United States from England just before the start of World War I. In 1923, he bought a brownstone building on Lexington Avenue that would host the Gallery until 1994.
The Weyhe Gallery publishes prints singly or in portfolios. It emphasizes the emerging artist, and it is the leading institution in the world of American art in the first half of the 20th century. Modernist artists were among the early popular exhibitors:
Carl Zigrosser, his manager for many years, remembers that customers like Lewis Mumford, Frank Crowninshield, Alfred Lunt, and Jo Mielziner bought books and prints by art gallery circles, among them Rockwell Kent, Louis Lozowick, Aristide Maillol, Gaston Lachaise, Wanda GÃÆ'Â JJ Lankes, John Sloan, Reginald Marsh, Adolf Dehn, and Diego Rivera.
In 1991, David Kiehl, a curator of printers and photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, called the building "a temple for modern art," which describes "the early exhibition of German Expressionists, Matisse, Picasso, Mexican and African art."
Weyhe also publishes an art magazine, The Checkerboard .
The first director of the gallery was Carl Zigrosser, who continued this role until 1940. Erhard Weyhe's daughter, Gertrude Dennis, operated a gallery and bookstore after his death in 1972 until his death in 2003. At that time, the formation of New York City closed its doors, and relocated to Mount Desert, Maine. Deborah Kiley, Weyhe's grandson, is the current owner of Weyhe Gallery and bookstore, Weyhe Art Books.
The current incarnation of the Weyhe Gallery maintains a collection in the following areas: 19th century Europe, Pre-1950 America, Classical Modernism, and American Regionalism. Among the many artists represented in his collection are John James Audubon, George Grosz, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Kathe Kollwitz, Max Weber, Raoul Dufy, Diego Rivera, Levon West, Lovis Corinth and Angelo Pinto.
Weyhe Gallery files from 1919 through 1994 are part of the research collection of the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art.
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See also
- Modernism
- Graph generation
References
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