{"product_id":"the-girl-with-the-gallery-paperback","title":"The Girl with the Gallery - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLindsay Pollock\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an era when American artists didn't count and women were expected to stay home, Edith Gregor Halpert burst onto the fledgling New York gallery scene, defying all cultural and societal rules. In 1926, Halpert, just twenty-six years old, opened one of the first art galleries in Greenwich Village and set about turning the art world upside down. Her Downtown Gallery, which she ran for forty-four years, laid the groundwork for the art market's modern era, and its aggressive promotion and sales tactics. Halpert cultivated the most illustrious art collectors of the day, invented the market for folk art, and pushed the first group of American artists working in a modern vernacular into the history books, including Stuart Davis, Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe, Ben Shahn, and Arthur Dove. Despite all this, Edith Halpert herself has been lost to history. Until now. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Girl with the Gallery\u003c\/i\u003e, journalist Lindsay Pollock brings Halpert and her era vividly back to life, tracing the story of how this remarkable woman, who started out a penniless Jewish immigrant, made it her mission to fight for American art and artists. Illustrated with eight pages of full color photographs, this is biography at its finest, an unforgettable story of class, money, vanity, jealousy, and tragic loss.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLindsay Pollock\u003c\/b\u003e is a journalist specializing in the art market. She currently works for \u003ci\u003eBloomberg News\u003c\/i\u003e, where she writes a weekly column and reports frequently for TV and radio. A former columnist for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Sun\u003c\/i\u003e, she also writes regularly for \u003ci\u003eArt \u0026amp; Auction, Art News, Art Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eArt Newspaper\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eThe Girl with the Gallery\u003c\/i\u003e is her first book. Lindsay lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 504\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.17 x 9.11 x 6.03 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 06, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760472391968,"sku":"9781586485122","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b585940e2fd883815e7f5941cc645752.webp?v=1780180846","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-girl-with-the-gallery-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}