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Upper East Side gallery specializing in modern and contemporary art. It brings together foundations and estates with a select roster of living artists.

Van Doren Waxter presents a cross generational program specializing in artists working from the post WW II era to the present. The gallery represents the James Brooks Foundation, the Rosemarie Beck Foundation, the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation, the Tom Fairs Estate, the Zoe Longfield Estate, the Harvey Quaytman Trust, the Jackie Saccoccio Estate, the Hedda Sterne Foundation, and the Jack Tworkov E

state. Contemporary artists include Marsha Cottrell, Jeronimo Elespe, Farid Haddad, Volker Hüller, Gareth Nyandoro, Brian Rochefort, and Daisy Youngblood. Additionally, the gallery handles secondary market work specializing in Etel Adnan, Milton Avery, John Chamberlain, Helen Frankenthaler, Hans Hofmann, Ellsworth Kelly, Lee Krasner, Roy Lichtenstein, John McLaughlin, Vera Molnar, Robert Motherwell, Georgia O'Keeffe, Dorothea Rockburne, Frank Stella, Wayne Thiebaud, and Anne Truitt, Cy Twombly among others. The combined program positions contemporary artists who are actively creating new work within the context of historical artists. Van Doren Waxter is a member of the ADAA (Art Dealers Association of America) and has participated in the following fairs: Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Basel, Frieze Masters, Frieze New York, The ADAA Art Show, ARCO Madrid, and The Armory Show.

06/24/2026

"Reality has to be digested, it has to be transmuted by paint. It has to be given a twist of some kind." – Richard Diebenkorn, 1957

This week is the last week to see Richard Diebenkorn: Still Life, showcasing 14 works from the Diebenkorn family collection that have never been for sale, highlighting the artist's Berkeley period still lifes from 1956 to 1967. The exhibition is on view until Friday, June 26th.

image: Richard Diebenkorn, Untitled (Still Life with Ivory Handled Knife) (CR no. 3416), c. 1964, Watercolor and acrylic on paper, 16 5/8 x 12 1/2 in (42.2 x 31.8 cm) © 2026 Richard Diebenkorn Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

06/18/2026

Van Doren Waxter will be closed Friday, June 19th, in observance of Juneteenth. We will resume summer hours on Monday, June 22nd, with Richard Diebenkorn: Still Life on view.

image: Louise Fishman, Residue of a Gaze, 2005, Oil on linen, 88 x 70 in (223.5 x 177.8 cm) (LF 70) currently on view at Van Doren Waxter, First Floor lobby

06/10/2026

Richard Diebenkorn's representational works during his Berkeley years demonstrate what curator and scholar Steven Nash described as the artist's "genuine allegiance to nature.” Even in pursuit of abstraction, the paintings of European Masters such as Bonnard, Cézanne, and Matisse remained a true source of inspiration for Diebenkorn. In his paintings, everyday objects from his home and studio– a knife slicing into a tomato, a lit match warming the fingertips of the holding hand, a pair of scissors balancing on a coffee cup– their angles and shapes collide in a particular pause, pushing against the raw atmospheric force of the paint. Richard Diebenkorn's profoundly sensitive Berkeley period works on paper are on view as part of Richard Diebenkorn: Still Life until June 27th.

06/08/2026

"All that was really important about being a painting was that it had paint on it.” – Alan Shields

Alan Shields
Swim in Mud, 1984-85
Handmade paper, gouache, watercolor and stitching
21 x 21 in (53.3 x 53.3 cm)

Alan Shields created playful and theatrical structures using unconventional materials such as unstretched hand-dyed canvas, rope, yarn, beads, and wood. Museum exhibitions include: Alan Shields: Common Threads, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY (2018); Alan Shields: A Different Kind of Painting, Beeler Gallery at Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH (2017); Alan Shields: Protracted Simplicity (1966-1985), Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO (2016), Alan Shields: In Motion, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY (2015), Into the Maze, SITE Santa Fe, NM (2014), Stirring Up the Waters, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY (2007); Alan Shields: A Survey, The Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS (1999); 1968 – 1983: The Work of Alan Shields, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN (1983), traveled to Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL and Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; Alan Shields: Paintings and Prints, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA (1981). Included in museum collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, Tate Collection, London, UK, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.

05/13/2026

Join us this Saturday for the Madison Avenue Spring Gallery Walk hosted by . We will be open from 10 AM - 5 PM with Richard Diebenkorn: Still Life on view, showcasing 14 works from the artist’s Berkeley period.

image: Richard Diebenkorn, Untitled (Still Life with Orange) (CR no. 2164), 1957, Oil on canvas, 8 x 10 1/4 inches (20.3 x 26 cm) (RD 2387) © 2026 Richard Diebenkorn Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

04/28/2026

Richard Diebenkorn: Still Life opens tomorrow, Wednesday, April 29, showcasing 14 works from the Diebenkorn family collection that have never been for sale, highlighting the artist’s Berkeley period still lifes from 1956 to 1967.

The quotidian objects are made extraordinary by the artist’s use of them as instruments of tension. An empty chair in solitude is not only abundant in its evocative capability and compact symbolism but also a multifaceted pictorial tool that reflects daylight and casts a shadow, adds gravity to the horizon, and fractures the balance of a rectangular picture plane.
image 1: Richard Diebenkorn, Jar (CR no. 3364), 1963, Oil on canvas, 15 x 12 3/4 in (38.1 x 32.4 cm) (RD 1385)
image 2: Richard Diebenkorn, Untitled (Lemons and Jar) (CR no. 2521), 1958, Oil on canvas, 18 x 24 in (45.7 x 61 cm) (RD 1213)

04/20/2026

This week is the last week to see Jackie Saccoccio: Portraits. Open through Friday, April 24th.

"Sometimes the packed, geometric zigzags of microchip components seem to shine forth from the paintings. Saccoccio was known for using rows of drips, then changing their directions by re-angling her canvases while her oils were wet. She also messed with these drips in other ways: In her 2017 painting “Portrait (Widower),” there is a brush mark at the end of each rivulet, as if the painter were adding a single bead to each fringe on a shirt." –Dawn Chan for Art Gallery Shows to See in March, The New York Times, 2026

04/17/2026

Van Doren Waxter is delighted to announce Richard Diebenkorn: Still Life, an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by the venerable American artist. This exhibition showcases works from the Diebenkorn family collection that have never been for sale. The exhibition will be open from Wednesday, April 29th, through Friday, June 26th.
Chair Outside (CR no. 2717), c. 1959, Oil on canvas, 28 x 24 in (71.1 x 61 cm) image © Richard Diebenkorn Foundation

04/13/2026

Currently on view as part of Jackie Saccocio: Portraits, until Friday, April 24

image: Jackie Saccoccio, Portrait (Turner), 2017, Oil and mica on linen, 57 x 45 inches (144.8 x 114.3 cm)

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Tuesday	10am - 5pm
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