The Girl with the Gallery

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In The Girl with the Gallery, journalist Lindsay Pollock vividly brings to life the fascinating, pioneering-and almost entirely forgotten-art dealer, Edith Gregor Halpert. In 1926, Halpert opened one of the first art galleries in Greenwich Village. She ran her Downtown Gallery for forty-four years, inventing the market for folk art, and pushing the first modern American artists into the history books, including Stuart Davis, Jacob Lawrence, and Georgia OKeefe. But until now she has been lost to history. This rich biography resurrects Halpert and illuminates the energetic, complex era when New York was becoming the center of the art world. The Miami Herald called it a highly readable, bittersweet rediscovery of an art dealer who made a difference.

Lindsay Pollock is a journalist specializing in the art market. She currently works for Bloomberg News, where she writes a weekly column and reports frequently for TV and radio. A former columnist for the New York Sun, she also writes regularly for Art & Auction, Art News, Art Review, and The Art Newspaper. This is her first book. Lindsay lives in New York City.

"The Downtown Gallery depended, at different times, on the market, on patrons and on the state, to fund its roster of artists. Pollock does a wonderful job of showing how Halpert appealed to each in turn. She makes the business of running a gallery as interesting to the reader as to its owner, and part of the charm of the book lies in its description of the Greenwich Village bohemianism that drew Halpert to the art world." "Pollock has built up a picture of a brilliant businesswoman who was a prime orchestrator of the increasing success of avant-garde American art in the first half of the 20th century." Daily Telegraph"