Brooke Alexander Gallery
art gallery in New York City
The Brooke Alexander Gallery was an art gallery in New York City founded in 1968 by Brooke and Carolyn Alexander in a storefront on East 68th Street. It was a member of The Art Dealers Association of America and the International Fine Print Dealers Association. It closed permanently in December of 2022.
History
Brooke Alexander Gallery began by publishing artists' prints and multiples in the fall of 1968. Since then, Brooke Alexander Gallery published over 1,500 editions. The Alexanders moved the gallery twice in the next few years and in 1972 opened at 26 East 78th Street. The gallery located to 57th Street in 1975 and regularly exhibited both paintings and prints.
In 1985 it moved to 59 Wooster Street, in the downtown area of New York City, into an art neighborhood that had been named SoHo and included 83 other art galleries. The art dealer David Zwirner got his start in the art business there.
The Alexanders separated in the early 1990s, and Mr.
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