Warren Adelson

Warren Adelson (born 1942) is an American art dealer, art historian, and author specializing in 19th and 20th-century American Painting as well as contemporary art.

Adelson was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, the son of Beaze (née Gellar) and Harry Adelson.

He opened his first gallery in Boston in 1965 on Newbury Street, Boston. Adelson Galleries exhibited Boston Impressionists, 19th-century American landscape and figure painting, and contemporary art.

In 1972, Adelson joined Knoedler Galleries in New York, where he worked on the development of their American paintings department for one year.

In 1974, he joined Coe Kerr Gallery in New York and became a partner with the principal owner, R. Frederick Woolworth, the following year. There, he organized exhibitions and catalogues of American Impressionist painters including Mary Cassatt: An American Observer,Maurice Prendergast: The Remembered Image,John Singer Sargent: His Own Work, and ‘’Sargent at Broadway: The Impressionist Years’’. He also produced several exhibitions of new work by Jamie Wyeth, as well as the exhibition, “Portraits of Each Other, 1976,” which featured images of Andy Warhol and Jamie Wyeth. The exhibition traveled to many museums throughout America and drew large crowds.

In 1990, Adelson re-established Adelson Galleries in New York and continued to specialize in 19th and 20th-century American art. The gallery regularly exhibits works by artists such as George Bellows, Charles Burchfield, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Thomas Eakins, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe, Maurice Prendergast, John Singer Sargent, and Andrew Wyeth, among others. In addition, Adelson Galleries represents several contemporary artists including Jacob Collins, Andrew Stevovich, and Jamie Wyeth.

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