Early years

Virginia Zabriskie took over the art gallery

Art gallery

An art gallery or art museum is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.Museums can be public or private, but what distinguishes a museum is the ownership of a collection...

 with a one-dollar down payment. It had been the Korman Gallery, a cooperative that included the painters Pat Adams

Pat Adams

Pat Adams is an American painter whose work is described as modernist and abstract. She was a student of Max Beckmann, and an early supporter of the Zabriskie Gallery.-Biography:...

 and Clinton Hill

Clinton Hill (artist)

Clinton Hill was an American abstract artist who created abstract color compositions on canvas, constructions made from wood and canvas, wood and plastic relief sculptures, collage, woodblock prints and unique assemblages of handmade paper....

 (a New York School

New York School

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 artist).

Zabriskie Gallery, France

By the 1980s

1980s

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, Zabriskie had two galleries in New York (one for painting and one for sculpture) and another in Paris

Paris

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. The Paris gallery focused on photography and allowed for a "lively exchange" between American and French artists during the 1980s and 1990s. She was honored in 1999 with the Medaille de la Ville de Paris.

Artists

Artists who have exhibited in the Zabriskie Gallery include Abraham Walkowitz

Abraham Walkowitz

Abraham Walkowitz was an American painter grouped in with early American Modernists working in the Modernist style.-Birth and education:...

 (Zabriskie held his correspondence and papers, and donated them to the University of Delaware

University of Delaware

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). Zabriskie was a supporter of the work of Elie Nadelman

Elie Nadelman

Elie Nadelman was an American sculptor, draughtsman and collector of Polish birth.-Early years:...

 and is credited with "rescuing her from neglect." Pat Adams held her first solo show there, and her 2005 exhibition Pat Adams Paintings 1954-2004, held in early 2004 at the Zabriskie Gallery, cemented Adams's reputation as "one of the most important abstract painters." The gallery has also worked with Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams

Ansel Easton Adams was an American photographer and environmentalist, best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West, especially in Yosemite National Park....

, Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan

Harry Morey Callahan was an influential twentieth century American photographer. Born in Detroit, Michigan, he began teaching himself photography in 1938. He formed a friendship with Todd Webb who was also destined to become a photographer. A talk given by Ansel Adams in 1941 inspired him to take...

, Alexander Archipenko

Alexander Archipenko

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, Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photography an accepted art form...

, Dorothea Tanning

Dorothea Tanning

Dorothea Tanning is an American painter, printmaker, sculptor and writer. She has also designed sets and costumes for ballet and theatre.-Biography:...

, Marsden Hartley

Marsden Hartley

Marsden Hartley was an American Modernist painter, poet, and essayist.-Early life and education:Hartley was born in Lewiston, Maine, where his English parents had settled. He was the youngest of nine children. His mother died when he was eight, and his father remarried four years later to Martha...

, among others.

Current

The gallery is now located between 57th St and 1st Ave in New York City. The Paris location closed in 1998. Between the years 1992 and 2011 Virginia Zabriskie donated the papers to the Smithsonian

Smithsonian Institution

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 Archives of American Art

Archives of American Art

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.