Gallery Directory

About Knoedler & Company

Knoedler & Company celebrates its 160th year, marking its enduring role in the history of American art dealing. Our business spans three centuries, and over the course of time our representation of living artists has extended from Frederic E. Church (the Hudson River School) to Helen Frankenthaler (the New York School). The gallery was established in lower Manhattan in 1846 by Michael Knoedler, who was then acting on behalf of Goupil & Company, the renowned French firm of engravers. In the beginning, our dealings were primarily in prints and artist’s materials.

The gallery’s annotated sales and stock books, dating from the mid-19th century, tell a fascinating story that runs parallel to the growth of New York City and of the country as a whole. The immense industrial expansion and new era of the railroad that followed the Civil War (a time when Knoedler traded paintings for gold) made a significant impact upon the world of art. Many of our clients, since that period, are still familiar to the current generation as founders of great American fortunes: the Vanderbilt family, the Astors, Henry M. Flagler, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, H.O. and Louisine Havemeyer, the Rockefeller family, Andrew and Paul Mellon, Robert Sterling Clark and Stephen Clark, and Henry Clay Frick, and others. Their patronage, in turn, established some of our nation’s most important art institutions.

Artist Roster

Milton Avery, Lee Bontecou, Dan Budnik, James Castle, John Duff, Herbert Ferber, Helen Frankenthaler, Michael Goldberg, Robert Motherwell, Catherine Murphy, Jules Olitski, Richard Pousette-Dar, Judith Rothschild, David Smith, Frank Stella, John Walker