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Upper East Side gallery specializing in modern and contemporary art. It brings together foundations and estates with a select roster of living artists.

Van Doren Waxter presents a cross generational program specializing in artists working from the post WW II era to the present. The gallery represents the James Brooks Foundation, the Rosemarie Beck Foundation, the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation, the Tom Fairs Estate, the Zoe Longfield Estate, the Harvey Quaytman Trust, the Jackie Saccoccio Estate, the Hedda Sterne Foundation, and the Jack Tworkov Estate. Contemporary artists include Marsha Cottrell, Jeronimo Elespe, Farid Haddad, Volker Hüller, Gareth Nyandoro, Brian Rochefort, and Daisy Youngblood. Additionally, the gallery handles secondary market work specializing in Etel Adnan, Milton Avery, John Chamberlain, Helen Frankenthaler, Hans Hofmann, Ellsworth Kelly, Lee Krasner, Roy Lichtenstein, John McLaughlin, Vera Molnar, Robert Motherwell, Georgia O'Keeffe, Dorothea Rockburne, Frank Stella, Wayne Thiebaud, and Anne Truitt, Cy Twombly among others. The combined program positions contemporary artists who are actively creating new work within the context of historical artists. Van Doren Waxter is a member of the ADAA (Art Dealers Association of America) and has participated in the following fairs: Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Basel, Frieze Masters, Frieze New York, The ADAA Art Show, ARCO Madrid, and The Armory Show.

10/10/2026

Van Doren Waxter will be closed on Monday, October 12, in observance of Indigenous Peoples' Day. We will resume regular hours on Tuesday with Zoe Longfield: A World of One's Own on view.

image: Zoe Longfield, Untitled, 1949, Oil on canvas, 34 x 32 in (86.4 x 81.3 cm)

09/30/2026

This Saturday, Van Doren Waxter will be open from 11 AM to 5 PM, participating in the annual Madison Avenue Fall Gallery Walk. Our current exhibition, Zoe Longfield: A World of One's Own, will be on view.

09/25/2026

Zoe Longfield: A World of One's Own on view at Van Doren Waxter until November 14

09/16/2026

Join us tomorrow for the opening of Zoe Longfield: A World of One's Own, an exhibition of 11 rarely shown paintings and works on paper by the first-generation abstract expressionist. This is the gallery's second solo exhibition of the artist since announcing exclusive representation of the Zoe Longfield Estate. The gallery will be open 10 AM to 6 PM.

image: Zoe Longfield, Untitled, 1949, Oil on canvas, 44 x 38 in (111.8 x 96.5 cm)
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09/08/2026

Van Doren Waxter is delighted to announce Zoe Longfield: A World of One's Own, an exhibition of rarely shown paintings and works on paper from 1948 to 1950. This is the gallery's second solo exhibition of the artist since announcing exclusive representation of the Zoe Longfield Estate.

Following a prestigious and comprehensive education in painting, studying under Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, and Clyfford Still at the California School of Fine Arts, Zoe Longfield in the late 1940s to the early 50s produced esoteric and remarkably original paintings, which in her own words sought to "solve those problems peculiar to painting." Frequently comprising muted colors, Longfield's paintings are mysteriously light and fluid. The canvas is not so much immured by paint but rather set free, transforming into something beyond the object. The atmosphere of the pictures is more aligned with that of Surrealist painters than that of her teachers such as Diebenkorn and Park, whose sense of color and light emanates from the landscapes of the Bay Area. The utterly abstract shapes, intertwined with eerie grays and mellifluous pinks and purples, are liberated from any association with familiar forms, reflecting her internal world rather than an external one.

The reality in which Longfield lived, as Virginia Woolf writes on existing in a man's world, was "erratic and undependable," ripe with discrimination and doubt. As one of the first-generation Bay Area Abstract Expressionists, Longfield was constrained to only a handful of commercial galleries to work with and overlooked as an artist while the art world favored her male peers. Without the illusion of praise or validation, Longfield did perhaps the most valuable thing an artist could do- paint because it mattered to her. Longfield's canvases, discovered in her home where she lived until her death in 2013, are charged with that instinct of an introspective artist and her undeniably unique voice.

The exhibition opens Thursday, September 17.

08/20/2026

Hedda Sterne
Untitled #1, 1988
Oil, pastel and graphite on canvas
40 x 26 in (101.6 x 66 cm)

On view until tomorrow as part of the summer group exhibition, Natural Responsibility.

08/17/2026

This week is the final week to see Natural Responsibility, a group show featuring contemporary women artists who innovated abstract art through formal and conceptual experimentation. The exhibition includes works by Marsha Cottrell, Louise Fishman, Nancy Lorenz, Zoe Longfield, Vera Molnar, Mariah Robertson, Hedda Sterne, Jackie Saccoccio, and Anne Truitt, spanning sculpture, painting, photography, and computer-generated art.

08/14/2026

Louise Fishman
Time and Change, 2014
Oil on linen
50 x 30 in
127 x 76.2 cm

On view until August 21 as part of our summer group exhibition, Natural Responsibility.

07/24/2026

07/07/2026

Van Doren Waxter is pleased to present Natural Responsibility, a group show featuring contemporary women artists who innovated abstract art through formal and conceptual experimentation. The exhibition includes works by Marsha Cottrell, Louise Fishman, Nancy Lorenz, Zoe Longfield, Vera Molnar, Mariah Robertson, Hedda Sterne, Jackie Saccoccio, and Anne Truitt, spanning sculpture, painting, photography, and computer-generated art. The exhibition opens Thursday, July 9, 2026.

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Tuesday	10am - 5pm
Wednesday	10am - 5pm
Thursday	10am - 5pm
Friday	10am - 5pm

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