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Barbara Mathes Gallery was founded in 1978 and specializes in paintings, sculpture, and works on paper by modern and contemporary masters.

11/24/2025

Barbara Mathes Gallery is pleased to announce our participation in Art Basel Miami Beach 2025. Our booth this year will be co-curated by Dakota Sica and include works by:

Frank Bowling
Cecily Brown
Alexander Calder
John Chamberlain
Ed Clark
Richard Diebenkorn
Jean Dubuffet
Friedel Dzubas
Sam Francis
Sam Gilliam
Philip Guston
Joan Mitchell
Robert Motherwell
Kenneth Noland
Pablo Picasso
Frank Stella

Image:
Joan Mitchell (1925-1992)
Untitled, 1979
Pastel and graphite on paper
22 ¾ x 15 ½ in; 57.8 x 39.4 cm
Framed: 30 1/4 in x 23 in; 76.8 x 58.4 cm
Signed at the lower right: Joan Mitchell

Fair Dates:
VIP Preview Days: December 3-4
Public Days: December 5-7
Booth H5

11/25/2024

Barbara Mathes Gallery is pleased to announce our participation in Art Basel Miami Beach 2024. We will be at booth H5.

This year, we will devote a section of our booth to pioneering mid-century female dealers such as Peggy Guggenheim, Betty Parsons, Martha Jackson, and Eleanor Ward, who championed women artists at a time when doing so was an exception.

Inspired by Guggenheim’s pioneering “Exhibition by 31 Women” in 1943, this section will include works by:

Louise Bourgeois
Helen Frankenthaler
Agnes Martin
Irene Rice Pereira
Hedda Sterne
Yvonne Thomas

Additionally, our booth will feature important paintings and works on paper by:

Etel Adnan
Frank Bowling
Ed Clark
Sam Gilliam
Richard Pousette-Dart

Image:
Hedda Sterne (1910-2011)
Untitled, 1990
Oil and pastel on canvas
36 x 24 in; 91.4 x 61 cm
Framed: 37 3/4 x 25 3/4 in; 95.9 x 65.4 cm
Signed and dated verso: For Stefanie / Hedda Sterne / 1990
©The Hedda Sterne Foundation, Inc. / Licensed by ARS, New York, NY

09/23/2024

Barbara Mathes Gallery is pleased to announce that we have moved to the 5th Floor of 22 East 80th Street. The gallery is now open with our fall exhibition, Modern Masters.

Modern Masters features works by:

Etel Adnan
Jan Dibbets
Sam Gilliam
Fausto Melotti
Yvonne Thomas

Image:
Fausto Melotti (1901-1986)
Cartoccio, c.1960
Glazed polychrome ceramic
7 3/8 x 18 1/2 in; 18.7 x 47 cm
Signed to the underside with artist’s cipher

04/22/2024

Opening April 25:

Barbara Mathes Gallery is pleased to announce Americans in Paris, an exhibition exploring the influence of Paris on generations of 20th century American artists. United by an interest in abstraction, these artists absorbed the lessons of both French Impressionism and the avant-garde. They explored museums and galleries, and established dialogues with French and expatriate artists and writers. As a result of their exposure to the city, they developed their artistic languages in ways that transformed American art.

Read the full press release on our website: http://www.barbaramathesgallery.com/exhibition/americans-in-paris

Americans in Paris will feature works by:
Etel Adnan
Louise Bourgeois
Alexander Calder
John Chamberlain
Ed Clark
Beauford Delaney
Ellsworth Kelly
Joan Mitchell
I. Rice Pereira
Ad Reinhardt
Edda Renouf
Yvonne Thomas

12/07/2023

It’s day 2 of Art Basel Miami Beach! The fair is open today from 11am-7pm. Stop by and see us at booth A35.

We are showing works by:

Etel Adnan
Frank Bowling
Alexander Calder
Ed Clark
Lyonel Feininger
Sam Francis
Sam Gilliam
Joe Goode
Lee Krasner
Fausto Melotti
Joan Mitchell
Piet Mondrian
Pablo Picasso
Edda Renouf
Yvonne Thomas

11/01/2023

ADAA: The Art Show opens tonight at the Park Avenue Armory! Come visit us at Booth D16 to see works by Frank Bowling, Ed Clark, Jean Dubuffet, Lyonel Feininger, Sam Francis, Sam Gilliam, Lee Krasner, Yayoi Kusama, Fausto Melotti, Piet Mondrian, Louise Nevelson, Pablo Picasso, and Edda Renouf.

Fair Hours:
November 1 (Benefit Preview) | 5:00-9:00 PM
November 2 | 12:00-7:00 PM
November 3 | 12:00-7:00 PM
November 4 | 12:00-7:00 PM
November 5 | 12:00-5:00 PM

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Image:
Frank Bowling (b. 1934)
Tyger Tyger, 2008
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 41 in; 61 x 104.1 cm

10/26/2023

Barbara Mathes Gallery is pleased to present Beyond the Brush for ADAA: The Art Show 2023. Celebrating the gallery's 45th anniversary, Beyond the Brush highlights modern and contemporary masterpieces by the artists who have defined the gallery's program for nearly half a century.

Taking place at the Park Avenue Armory, we will present works by:

Frank Bowling
Ed Clark
Jean Dubuffet
Lyonel Feininger
Sam Francis
Sam Gilliam
Lee Krasner
Yayoi Kusama
Fausto Melotti
Piet Mondrian
Louise Nevelson
Pablo Picasso
Edda Renouf

Fair Hours:
November 1 (Benefit Preview) | 5:00-9:00 PM
November 2 | 12:00-7:00 PM
November 3 | 12:00-7:00 PM
November 4 | 12:00-7:00 PM
November 5 | 12:00-5:00 PM

Image:
Louise Nevelson (1899-1988)
Dawn's Landscape IX, 1975
Painted wood (white)
26 x 26 x 2 1/2 in; 66 x 66 x 6.4 cm

04/10/2023

Exhibition Announcement:
Karen Wilberding Diefenbach
“Pastorale”
April 27 - June 29, 2023

Barbara Mathes Gallery is pleased to present Pastorale, an exhibition of new paintings, works on paper, and sculpture by Karen Wilberding Diefenbach. Inspired by the landscape of Tuscany, Diefenbach’s work is known for its evocation of tradition and its exploration of our complex interaction with the natural world.

Fascinated by what she has called the “determined survival” of the ancient trees in Tuscany and their silent witness to the events of history, Diefenbach has been interested in the cyclical changes of the seasons and the constant transformation of the natural environment. In her new paintings, such as Pastorale (2023) and San Macario #1, Old Olive Tree (2023), Diefenbach’s large scale paintings of vibrant trees reflect this theme of temporality. Unending swirls of bright color form the towering branches of Diefenbach’s trees, conveying the strength and majesty that has endured for hundreds of years.

This exhibition also explores Diefenbach’s ongoing series of works focusing on the Pecore Massese – a unique breed of sheep originating in the Alpi Apuane – that she first encountered in the hills above the town of Camaiore. Diefenbach came to see the Massese sheep’s strange forms as a metaphor for ritual and historical continuity. Seemingly out of time, they graze on the ancient hills as they have for many centuries. Yet in recent years their population has rapidly declined. Diefenbach’s work thus takes on an elegiac tone, and her artistic meditations have come to evoke a place and a way of life that is increasingly under threat.

Read the full press release here: http://www.barbaramathesgallery.com/exhibition/karen-wilberding-diefenbach-pastorale/selected-works

Image:
Karen Wilberding Diefenbach
Pastorale, 2023
Oil on canvas
48 x 72 in; 121.9 x 182.9 cm

01/10/2023

"Edda Renouf: A Selection of Paintings and Drawings from 1976 – 2019" is now open at Barbara Mathes Gallery through March 3, 2023. This comprehensive exhibition spans more than forty years of Renouf’s career and is her third solo presentation with the gallery. In showcasing a wide range of Renouf’s work, the exhibition will explore her commitment to meditative, lyrical abstraction and the experiments with process and material for which she is known.

01/04/2023

Opening Tuesday, January 10th:
Barbara Mathes Gallery is pleased to announce Edda Renouf: A Selection of Paintings and Drawings from 1976 – 2019, a comprehensive exhibition spanning more than forty years of the artist’s career. Presenting a wide range of Renouf’s work, this exhibition will explore her commitment to meditative, lyrical abstraction and the experiments with process and material for which she is known.

Fascinated by the physical qualities of linen, Renouf removes and repositions threads from the weave of her canvases before applying glazes of acrylic paint and sanding the paintings’ surfaces. The process of altering the canvas reveals the inherent structure of the support, rendering it not simply a ground onto which an image is imposed, but rather an integral element of the composition itself.

The exhibition will run from January 10th through March 3rd.

Read the full press release on our website: http://www.barbaramathesgallery.com/exhibition/edda-renouf-a-selection-of-paintings-and-drawings-from-1976-2019/selected-works

Images

November Echoes (Version I), 2006
Acrylic on linen, removed and reapplied threads
11 3/4 x 11 3/4 in; 30 x 30 cm
Signed, titled and dated on the reverse

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New York, NY

Telephone

+12125704190

Website

http://www.barbaramathesgallery.com/

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