Brummer Gallery (New York)

Brummer Gallery

Portrait of Joseph Brummer by Henri Rousseau, 1909, now in the National Gallery, London
Founded	1914
Founder	Joseph Brummer Irme Brummer
Defunct	1949
Headquarters	New York City, USA
Key people	Joseph Brummer, Ernest Brummer
Products	Fine arts
Owner	Imre and Joseph Brummer

The New York branch of the Brummer Gallery was opened in 1914 by Imre and Joseph Brummer. Joseph and his brothers Ernest were among the most significant art dealers of the first half of the 20th century, dealing in a broad range of art that spanned from classical antiquity to modern art.^[1] Their collection included many works from the Middle Ages, Pre-Columbian America, and Renaissance and Baroque decorative arts.^[2] Following Joseph Brummer's death in 1947, the gallery closed down in 1949, and its collection was auctioned off over the next three decades.^[1]

Exhibitions

This is an incomplete list of the exhibitions of modern art in the Brummer Gallery in New York.

• 1921, April 4 to 23: Maurice Prendergast
• 1921, May: "Works by French and American artists including paintings by Jennie Van Fleet Cowdery", including two works by Auguste Renoir
• 1921, October 24 to November 21: Anne Goldthwaite^[3]
• 1921, November 28 to December 24: Frank Burty
• 1922, January 3 to 21: Peggy Bacon and Alexander Brook
• 1922: sculptures by Henri Matisse and Manolo Hugué, and paintings by Amedeo Modigliani, André Derain, Maurice Utrillo, Marie Laurencin and Pascin^[3]
• 1922 December 15 to 1, 923, January 13: Auguste Rodin (paintings and sculptures)
• 1923, January 17 to February 10: Pascin
• 1923, March 17 to April 14: Thomas Eakins^[3]
• 1923: Bernard Karfiol
• 1923, October 22 to November 10: Toshi Shimizu
• 1923, December 15 to 1924, January 5: Works by Max Jacob^[3]
• 1924, February 25 to March 22: Henri Matisse
• 1924: Hermine David
• 1924: José de Togores
• 1924, December 4 to 27: Georges Seurat
• 1925, January: Roger Fry
• 1925, February: Walter Pach
• 1925, March 2 to 21, 1925: Michel Kikoine
• 1925: Bernard Karfiol (second exhibition at Brummer)
• 1926, January 18 to February 13: Aristide Maillol
• 1926, November 17 to December 15: Sculptures by Constantin Brâncuși.^[4]
• 1927, January 17 to February 12: Béla Czóbel
• 1927, February 14 to March 12: Bernard Karfiol (third exhibition at Brummer)
• 1927, March to April 9: Eugène Zak
• 1927, late: First personal exhibition of works by Charles Despiau
• 1928, February 1 to 25: John Storrs
• 1928, February 27 to March 24: Gaston Lachaise
• 1928, March 26 to April 21: Jacques Villon, paintings
• 1929, February 16 to March 16: A. S. Baylinson and Morris Kantor
• 1929, March 18 to April 13: Jane Berlandina
• 1929, March 28 to April 12: Raymond Duchamp-Villon, sculptures
• 1929, May: Michel Kikoine (second exhibition at Brummer)
• 1929, November 1 to 28: "Portraits of Maria Lani by Fifty-One Painters", featuring work by Chaim Soutine, Kees van Dongen, Georges Rouault, Pierre Bonnard, Rodolphe-Théophile Bosshard, Charles Despiau, Henri Matisse, Man Ray, André Derain, and others^[5]
• 1929, November 30 to December 13: collection of Albert Eugene Gallatin, including work by Fernand Léger, Man Ray, Paul Klee, André Masson, Joan Miró, Joseph Stella, and a 1906 self-portrait by Pablo Picasso
• 1929, December 14 to 1930, January 31: Othon Friesz, Paintings
• 1930, February 1 to 28: Max Jacob (second exhibition at Brummer)
• 1930, March 8 to 31: Jane Berlandina (second exhibition at Brummer)
• 1930, April 1 to 3 May: Georges Rouault
• 1930, October 20 to November 20: Jacques Villon (second exhibition at Brummer)
• 1930, November 22 to December 20: Pierre Roy
• 1931, January 5 to February 7: Henri Matisse, sculptures
• 1931, February 13 to 28: Anne Goldthwaite (second exhibition at Brummer)
• 1931, March 16 to April 18: Théophile Steinlen
• 1931, October 13 to November 7: Marcel Mouillot
• 1931, November 9 to ?: Charles Dufresne
• 1932, February 9 to 29: Arthur Everett Austin, Jr.
• 1932, March 5 to April 5: Josep Llorens i Artigas
• 1932, November to December 10: Maurice Marinot, glass
• 1932, December 13 to ?: 18th century French drawings, from the Richard Owen collection
• 1933, January 3 to February 28: Aristide Maillol (second exhibition at Brummer)
• 1933, March 4 to April 15: Pierre Roy (second exhibition at Brummer)
• 1933, October to November: 18th and 19th century French drawings from the Richard Owen collection (second part), including works by Antoine Watteau, Gustave Moreau and Théophile Steinlen
• 1933, November 17 to 1934, January 13: Sculptures by Constantin Brâncuși (second exhibition at Brummer).^[6]
• 1934, February 24 to April 15: Pablo Gargallo
• 1934, November 5 to December 29: Charles Despiau (second exhibition at Brummer)
• 1935, January 5 to February 28: André Dunoyer de Segonzac
• 1935, March 15 to 11 May: Mateo Hernandez
• 1935, October: Marguerite Zorach
• 1935, December 2 to 1936, January 31: first US exhibition of Jacques Lipchitz
• 1936, March 2 to April 4: Béla Czóbel
• 1936, November 9 to 1937, January 2: André Derain
• 1937, January 25 to March 20: Ossip Zadkine
• 1937, November 1 to December 31: François Pompon
• 1938, February and March: Léon Hartl
• 1938, November 7 to 28: Charles Dufresne (second Brummer exhibition)
• 1938: November 7 to 1939, January 7: Henri Laurens

References

1. "Documenting the Gilded Age: New York City Exhibitions at the Turn of the 20th Century: Phase I | Galleries and Artists Clubs : Brummer Gallery". Gildedage.omeka.net. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
2. Carter, Michael (December 18, 2013). "New Collection: The Brummer Gallery Records | Highlights from the Digital Collections". Libmma.org. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
3. "Brummer Gallery". Gilded Age. New York Art Resources Consortium. Retrieved January 12, 2012.
4. Brancusi: catalogue : of exhibition November 17 – December 15, 1926. Brummer Gallery. 1926. p. 44.
5. "Art: 51 Portraits". Time. November 18, 1929. Retrieved January 12, 2012.
6. Brancusi: exhibition November 17, 1933 – January 13, 1934. Brummer Gallery. 1933.

External links

• The Brummer Gallery Records, over 13,000 digitized object cards from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries
• Walters Art Museum objects with provenance from Joseph Brummer
• Metropolitan Museum of Art objects with provenance from Joseph Brummer
• The Frick Collection research information
• Article on The Brummer Gallery Records from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries.
• Documenting the Gilded Age: New York City Exhibitions at the Turn of the 20th Century. A New York Art Resources Consortium project. Brummer Gallery exhibition catalogs.