Jefferson Place Gallery

The Jefferson Place Gallery was an art gallery in Washington, DC. It was founded in 1957 as a coalition of American University artists and others: Robert "Bob" Gates, Helene Herzbrun, and Ben "Joe" Summerford. Helene Herzbrun was a partner until 1961. Alice Denney was the first director. Nesta Dorrance acquired the gallery from Denney around 1960 when she left to organize the Washington Gallery of Modern Art. Dorrance ran it until it closed in the mid 1970's.

The gallery exhibited "advanced art" and was associated with Washington Color School, Color Field, Post-painterly Abstraction and Lyrical Abstraction for a number of years and was a major Washington outlet for that art. These are some of the artists who exhibited at Jefferson Place Gallery: Kenneth Noland, Howard Mehring, Gene Davis, Paul Reed (artist), Hilda Shapiro Thorpe, Sam Gilliam, William Eggleston, Willem de Looper, Eric Rudd, Rockne Krebs, John Gossage, Franklin White, Carroll Sockwell, David Staton, Jennie Lea Knight, Elliot Thompson, Blaine Larson, Sheila Isham, Yuri Schwebler, Valerie Hollister, Ben L. Summerford, Roy Slade, Ed Zerne, John Wise, V.V. Rankine, Robert Franklin Gates, David Moy, Roberto Polo, Antoinette "Tony" Bradlee....

The competitors in Contemporary Art with Nesta Dorrance's Jefferson Place Gallery were Henri Gallery [Henrietta Ersham] , Pyramid Gallery [Ramon Osuna & Luis Lastra] and later Protetch-Rivkin Gallery [Max Protetch & Harold Rivkin] .

Exhibitions

- 1975 -

Eric Rudd

- 1974 -

Thomas George
Sheila Isham
Willem de Looper
William Eggleston

- 1973 -

Eric Rudd

- 1972 -

Roy Slade
Willem de Looper
Ed Zerne
Jack Solomon
Valerie Hollister
Sam Gilliam

- 1971 -

Eric Rudd
Howard Mehring

- 1970 -

Roy Slade
Sheila Isham
Howard Mehring
Willem de Looper

- 1969 -

Sheila Isham
Eric Rudd
Howard Mehring
Sam Gilliam
Valerie Hollister
“Corkery, Thompson, Wade, Zerne” July
- 1968 -

Sam Gilliam
Roy Slade
Sheila Isham
"Jefferson Place Ten Years"
Valerie Hollister
Willem de Looper

- 1967-

Gene Davis [?]
Willem de Looper
Paul Reed

- 1966 -

Barbara Freeman
Willem de Looper
Valerie Hollister

- 1964 -

Paul Reed

- 1963 -

- 1962 -

Gene Davis - November 27-December 15, 1962.
Frederic Matys Thursz

- 1961 -

Thomas Downing
Gene Davis - January, 1961.

- 1960 -

Gene Davis - June, 1960
Howard Mehring

- 1959 -

Gene Davis - March 3-21, 1959.
Howard Mehring
Frederic Matys Thursz

- 1958 -

Kenneth Noland

References

* [http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!210691~!0&term=#focus] Jefferson Place Gallery records, 1957-1971. Notes by Helene Herzbrun, S.I. Archives of American Art
* [http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=115221E8Q7332.34730&profile=all&source=~!siarchives&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!213260~!1&ri=3&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Jefferson+Place+Gallery&index=&uindex=&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ri=3#focus] Oral history interviews with Sam Gilliam, 1989 Nov. 4 - 11., S.I. Archives of American Art
*Introduction & Text by Roy Slade, "The Corcoran & Washington Art" Copyright 1976 The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.: 2000 copies printed by Garamond Press, Baltimore, MD LCCC# 76-42098
* [http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/nordla04.htm] Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Interview with Gerald Nordland Conducted by Susan Larsen, Chicago, Illinois May 25-26, 2004
*"Washington Art", catalog of exhibitions at State University College at Potsdam, NY & State University of New York at Albany, 1971 [no copyright or LCCC # listed] , Introduction by Renato G. Danese, printed by Regal Art Press, Troy NY.
*"The Vincent Melzac Collection," Forward by Walter Hopps, Introduction by Ellen Gross Landau, Retrospective Notes on the Washington Color School by Barbara Rose, Copyright 1971 The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.: printed by Garamond/Pridemark Press, Baltimore, MD LCCC#75-153646
* [http://www.connercontemporary.com/artists/mehring/main.htm] "Howard Mehring", Conner Contemporary Art, Washington D. C.,
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Pinchot_Meyer] Antoinette "Tony" Bradlee exhibited figurative sculpture at JPG and was a sister to murdered artist, Mary Pinchot Meyer
*"The Visual Experience: An Introduction to Art", Helene M. Herzbrun, Art Journal, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Spring, 1963), pp. 168-168 Published by: College Art Association

External links

* [http://www.liquitex.com/50thAnniversary/white_interview.html] Interview with Franklin White, Nov 2004, Liquitex site
* [http://www.askart.com/askart/t/hilda_thorpe/hilda_thorpe.aspx] Hilda Thorpe 1920 - 2000, AskArt
* [http://www.askart.com/askart/k/rockne_krebs/rockne_krebs.aspx] Rockne Krebs, AskArt
* [http://www.americanart.si.edu/search/artist_bio.cfm?StartRow=1&ID=2670] Jennie Lea Knight 1933-2007, SAAM
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/11/AR2008041101157.html] A Tribute for a Washington Painter by Way of Holland; Willem de Looper, By Paul Richard, Special to The Washington Post, Sunday, April 13, 2008; Page M08
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9903E7DB1F39F936A25752C1A967948260] Thought Provoking Work at the Hudson: Yuri Schwebler, By John Caldwell, N.Y.Times, November 15, 1981
* [http://www.askart.com/askart/s/carroll_sockwell/carroll_sockwell.aspx] Carroll Sockwell 1943 - 1992, AskArt
* [http://www.askart.com/askart/artist.aspx?artist=109700] Ben L. Summerford, AskArt
* [http://www.askart.com/askart/g/robert_franklin_gates/robert_franklin_gates.aspx] Robert Franklin Gates 1906 - 1982, AskArt
* [http://www.askart.com/askart/artist.aspx?artist=106592] V.V.Rankine, AskArt
* [http://www.artnet.com/usernet/awc/awc_history_view.asp?aid=424172436&info_type_id=2] Gene Davis Bio
* [http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/davis81.htm] Gene Davis interview
* [http://www.darkrideproject.org/RuddBio.html] Eric Rudd Bio
* [http://www.darkrideproject.org/RuddBiblio.html] Eric Rudd Bibliography
* [http://www.connercontemporary.com/artists/howard-mehring/?view=bio] Howard Mehring Bio
* [http://www.vhollisterdesigns.com/about_the_artist.asp] Valerie Hollister Bio
* [http://www.sharecom.ca/noland/chronology] Kenneth Noland Bio
* [http://www.atriumgallery.net/artists/wdelooper.htm] Willem de Looper Bio
* [http://www.baukunst-galerie.de/kuenstler/fredericmatysthursz_en.php] Frederic Matys Thursz Bio 1930-1992
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Reed_(artist)] Paul Allen Reed Bio
* [http://www.egglestontrust.com/solo.html] William Eggleston
* [http://www.thecarver.org/cg/artists/sockwell.htm] Carroll Sockwell
* [http://www.connercontemporary.com/artists/thomas-downing/?view=bio] Thomas Downing Bio
* [http://www.originalprint.ie/downloads/artists/Freeman,%20Barbara%20CV.doc] Barbara Freeman Bio
* [http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/4aa/4aa269.htm] Ben L. Summerford Bio
* [http://www.bettina-werner.com/sqf/hamptons2005/isham.htm] Sheila Isham Bio
* [http://royslade.com/artwork.aspx] Roy Slade Bio
* [http://www.marshamateykagallery.com/artists/gilliam/bio.html] Sam Gilliam Bio
* [http://thomasgeorgepainter.com/pb/wp_481fbfa5/wp_481fbfa5.html?0.16701552155427635] Thomas George Bio
* [http://www.sharecom.ca/greenberg/ppaessay.html] Essay on Post-Painterly Abstraction by Clement Greenberg
* [http://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!20482!0] New Sculpture: Baltimore, Washington, Richmond. [Exhibition] October 9 - November 15, 1970. [Introduction by Renato G. Danese]
* [http://www.anders-zerne.com/NewSculpture.html] Text to New Sculpture catalog's Introduction by Renato G. Danese
* [http://www.anders-zerne.com/images/ZERNE_District_West_FA.pdf] Ed Zerne at District West Fine Art, 2002
* [http://www.maxprotetch.com/] Max Protetch
* [http://www.danese.com/] Danese