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In an era when American artists didn't count and women were expected to stay home, Edith Gregor Halpert burst onto the fledgling New York gallery scene, defying all cultural and societal rules. In 1926, Halpert, just twenty-six years old, opened one of the first art galleries in Greenwich Village and set about turning the art world upside down. Her Downtown Gallery, which she ran for forty-four years, laid the groundwork for the art market's modern era, and its aggressive promotion and sales tactics. Halpert cultivated the most illustrious art collectors of the day, invented the market for folk art, and pushed the first group of American artists working in a modern vernacular into the history books, including Stuart Davis, Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe, Ben Shahn, and Arthur Dove. Despite all this, Edith Halpert herself has been lost to history. Until now.

In The Girl with the Gallery, journalist Lindsay Pollock brings Halpert and her era vividly back to life, tracing the story of how this remarkable woman, who started out a penniless Jewish immigrant, made it her mission to fight for American art and artists. Illlustrated with eight pages of full color photographs, this is biography at its finest, an unforgettable story of class, money, vanity, jealousy, and tragic loss.

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  • Title The Girl with the Gallery: Edith Gregor Halpert and the Making of the Modern Art Market
  • Author Lindsay Pollock
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 483
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher PublicAffairs, New York
  • Publication date October 30, 2006
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781586483029 / 1586483021
  • Weight 1.66 lbs (0.75 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.28 x 6.4 x 1.59 in (23.57 x 16.26 x 4.04 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Art dealers - New York (State) - New York, Halpert, Edith Gregor
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006023266
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Lindsay Pollock is a journalist specializing in the art market. She currently works for Bloomberg News, where she writes a weekly column and reports frequently for TV and radio. A former columnist for the New York Sun, she also writes regularly for Art & Auction, Art News, Art Review, and The Art Newspaper. This is her first book. Lindsay lives in New York City.
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