Five generations later, James Graham & Sons, founded in 1857 and New York City's oldest art gallery under the same ownership, will relocate from its age-old 1014 Madison Avenue home and take up residence at 32 East 67 Street this December 2007. The gallery specializes in 19th- and 20-century American painting, European and American sculpture, British ceramics and contemporary art. Its sleek new space's inaugural exhibition will feature works by Walter Gay (1856-1937), Guy Pène du Bois (1884-1958), Paul Manship (1885-1966), Norman Bluhm (1921-1999) and others.
James Graham & Sons is recognized internationally as a fine purveyor of works from the Hudson River School, American Impressionists, the Ashcan School, the Eight and the Stieglitz Circle. It regularly displays 19th- and 20th-century American and European bronze sculptures as well as works by Modernist and contemporary artists. Those featured in past exhibitions include Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902), Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907).Frederic Remington (1861-1909), Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975), Alice Neel (1900-1984) and Andrew Wyeth (b. 1917).
The gallery's current space is exhibiting recent oil on wood paintings by Mary McDonnell from October 12 to November 10, 2007.