The Jefferson Place Gallery was an art gallery in Washington, D.C., founded in 1957 and closed in 1974.[1][2] It had been located at 1216 Connecticut Street, NW in Washington, D.C.. The gallery was associated with the Washington Color School artists.
Formation | 1957 (1957) |
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Dissolved | October 1, 1974 (1974-10-01) |
Type | arts organization, art gallery |
Headquarters | 1216 Connecticut Street, NW, Washington, D.C., United States |
Key people | William Howard Calfee, Robert Franklin Gates, Helene Herzbrun, Mary Orwen, Ben Summerford, Alice Denney, Nesta Dorrance
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The Jefferson Place Gallery was initially founded in 1957 as a cooperative gallery,[3] by five current and former art professors at American University, William Howard Calfee, Robert Franklin Gates, Helene Herzbrun, Mary Ryan Orwen, and Ben Summerford.[4] Alice Denney, served as the first gallery director. Other artists who joined the cooperative in 1957 were George Bayliss, Lothar Brabanski, Colin Greenly, Leonard Maurer, Kenneth Noland, and Baltimore-based artist Shelby Shackelford.
Nesta Dorrance acquired the gallery from Alice Denney in 1961, when she left to organize the Washington Gallery of Modern Art.[5] Dorrance ran it until it closed in October 1974.
The gallery exhibited "advanced art" and was associated with Washington Color School, a color field, post-painterly abstraction and lyrical abstraction for a number of years, and was a major Washington outlet for that art.
The competitors in contemporary art with Nesta Dorrance's Jefferson Place Gallery were Henri Gallery [Henrietta Ersham], Pyramid Gallery [Ramon Osuna and Luis Lastra] and later, Protetch-Rivkin Gallery [Max Protetch and Harold Rivkin].
Some artists who also exhibited at Jefferson Place Gallery: Antoinette Pinchot Bradlee [Wikidata], William Christenberry, Gene Davis, Willem De Looper, William Eggleston, Sam Gilliam,[6] John Gossage, Valerie Hollister,[5] Sheila Isham,[5] Jennie Lea Knight, Rockne Krebs, Blaine Larson, Howard Mehring,[5] Mary Pinchot Meyer, David Moy, Roberto Polo, V. V. Rankine, Paul Reed (artist),[5] Eric Rudd, Yuri Schwebler,[5] Roy Slade,[5] D. Jack Solomon, David Staton,[5] Elliot Thompson, Hilda Shapiro Thorpe,[5] Frederic Matys Thursz, Franklin White,[5] John P. Wise, Mary Orwen,[4] Carroll Sockwell,[7] and Ed Zerne.[5]
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