The George Adams Gallery traces its origins to the Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, founded in 1952. In 1959 Allan Frumkin opened a second location in New York, which eventually became its principal location. Adams and Mr. Frumkin forming a partnership in 1988 changing the gallery’s name to Frumkin/Adams. Following Mr. Frumkin’s retirement in 1995, the gallery became the George Adams Gallery and in
2005, after 46 years on 57th Street, relocated to West 26th Street in Chelsea. Today, the George Adams Gallery represents the estates of Robert Arneson (1930-1992), Jack Beal (1931-2013), Elmer Bischoff (1916-1991), Joan Brown (1938-1990) and Gregory Gillespie (1936-2000), while regularly exhibiting the work of contemporary artists such as Luis Cruz Azaceta, Chris Ballantyne, Enrique Chagoya, Diane Edison, Amer Kobaslija, Andrew Lenaghan, Peter Saul, Katherine Sherwood, William T. Wiley, and other emerging and under-recognized artists.
