The Girl with the Gallery Quotes

“...he was reluctant to return to New York, a town less supportive of his sort of art.”
― Lindsay Pollock, The Girl with the Gallery: Edith Gregor Halpert And the Making of the Modern Art Market

“Edith would always believe art was for everyone, whether rich or poor, educated or not.”
― Lindsay Pollock, The Girl with the Gallery: Edith Gregor Halpert And the Making of the Modern Art Market

“Most teachers at the National Academy of Design discouraged students from visiting "291", lest they be influenced by radical American painters such as John Marin and Abraham Walkowitz, whose disregard for accurate form and color outraged the traditionalists.”
― Lindsay Pollock, The Girl with the Gallery: Edith Gregor Halpert And the Making of the Modern Art Market

“..and only by assimilating into their community would they succeed.”
― Lindsay Pollock, The Girl with the Gallery: Edith Gregor Halpert And the Making of the Modern Art Market