Project Description
Hammer Galleries is among the oldest galleries in New York City, founded in 1928 by industrialist and philanthropist Dr. Armand Hammer, . The gallery quickly rose to prominence when, in the early 1930s, it exhibited the world-famous Russian Imperial Easter Eggs by celebrated court jeweler Karl Fabergé. After beginning with a primary focus on Russian icons, Imperial porcelains and rare art objects, in the 1960’s Hammer shifted its focus to 19th and 20th Century European and American artists. Major recent exhibitions include: “Van Gogh in Paris,” “Sun, Sea, & Sky: Painting the Mediterranean,” “The Faces of Modernism,” “The Artist and the Model,” “Modern Masters: Between the Wars,” “Matisse & Picasso,” “The Modern Muse: Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture by Twentieth-Century Masters,” “Objects in Space: Léger, Miró, Calder,” and “Modern Masters: Paris and Beyond,” all of which have been accompanied by full-color catalogs with scholarly and biographical essays. Hammer continues to focus on Impressionist and Modern masters under the direction of Howard Shaw, who began his career at Hammer in 1981.