About us
Graham Shay 1857 is a private art gallery, specializing in fine American paintings and American and European sculpture, spanning a time-period from the 1840’s through the 20th Century. The elegant space, in a private apartment building, is steps off Madison Avenue, in the midst of the Upper East Side museum and gallery district.
Director Cameron M. Shay has been in the American art business for 40 years and has placed works in leading institutions and distinguished private collections. He is recognized for his expertise in American and European sculpture of the 19th and 20th Centuries. The Gallery has an active exhibition program and is looking forward to showing exemplary works in a fresh space. Amongst the genres shown at the Gallery are historic American art, important American sculpture, the Hudson River School, the Ashcan and New York school painters, Western and wildlife art, American modernism, abstract paintings and sculpture.
Artists of particular focus include Guy Pene du Bois, Everett Shinn, John White Alexander, Helen Torr, Oscar Bluemner, Thomas Hart Benton, Frederic Remington, Harriet Frishmuth, Charles M. Russell, Antoine-Louis Barye, Rembrandt Bugatti, Norman Bluhm, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, William Zorach and Paul Manship.
The firm is a member of the Art Dealers Association of America. We are open to the public with regular hours and by appointment.
Museums
Graham Shay 1857 has placed works with the following institutions:
- Amon Carter Museum of American Art
- Blair House, The White House, Washington, DC
- Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin
- Colby College Museum of Art
- Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
- Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens
- Denver Art Museum
- Frederic Remington Art Museum
- Greenville County Museum of Art
- High Museum of Art
- Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
- Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- McNay Art Museum
- Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Mint Museum
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- National Gallery of Art
- National Museum of Wildlife Art
- Newark Museum of Art
- Orlando Museum of Art
- Portland Art Museum
- Rockwell Museum of Art
- Saint-Gaudens Memorial
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Society of the Cincinnati
- Speed Art Museum
- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
- Westmoreland Museum of American Art
- Wichita Art Museum