Founder Jeffrey Fraenkel Phone +1 415-981-2661 | President Frish Brandt Founded 1979 | |
Established 11 September 1979 (1979-09-11) Director Amy Whiteside, Emily Lambert, Daphne Palmer Owner Jeffrey Fraenkel, Frish Brandt Hours Open today · 10:30AM–5:30PMWednesday10:30AM–5:30PMThursday10:30AM–5:30PMFriday10:30AM–5:30PMSaturday11AM–5PMSundayClosedMondayClosedTuesday10:30AM–5:30PM Similar 49 Geary Art Galleries, San Francisco Museum, John Berggruen Gallery, Haines Gallery, Scott Nichols Gallery | ||
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Fraenkel Gallery is an independent art gallery in San Francisco founded by Jeffrey Fraenkel in 1979.
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- Lee friedlander america by car fraenkel gallery
- Fraenkel gallery use
- History
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- Anniversary publications
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Fraenkel Gallery has presented more than 300 exhibitions exploring photography and its relation to other arts. The exhibitions have spanned the medium’s history, from its early masters to the present day. In exhibitions such as Edward Hopper & Company, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Open Secrets, Not Exactly Photographs, and Nothing and Everything, Fraenkel Gallery has brought together work across media, interweaving photography, painting, drawing, and sculpture.
The gallery also publishes photography books, including those to accompany its exhibitions and to coincide with its anniversaries.
Maria Morris Hambourg, former curator of photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, has said "As a New Yorker, I never come to the West Coast without going to the Fraenkel Gallery [...] Amongst professionals in the field, we really count on Jeffrey and Frish, on their expertise and imagination and enterprise to keep finding and preserving the very best."
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History
Jeffrey Fraenkel opened Fraenkel Gallery on 11 September 1979 at 55 Grant Avenue, San Francisco, with 19th-century photographs of California by Carleton Watkins.
The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake caused the gallery at Grant Avenue to close, shortly after Fraenkel and business partner Frish Brandt had invested $300,000 into the gallery's expansion. The earthquake also destroyed the spaces occupied by other galleries around Union Square and a number of them, including Fraenkel Gallery, migrated to 49 Geary Street.
Frish Brandt joined Fraenkel Gallery in 1985. In 2015, Brandt was named president of the gallery.
In 2016 gallery owners Brandt and Fraenkel opened a second space, FraenkelLAB, at 1632 Market Street in San Francisco. The inaugural exhibition at FraenkelLAB was Home Improvements, curated by John Waters, and subsequent exhibitions have featured the work of Richard T. Walker and David Benjamin Sherry.
Fraenkel Gallery has in the past represented the estates of Richard Avedon and Ansel Adams.