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The Jefferson Place Gallery was an art gallery in Washington, DC. It was founded in 1957, as a coalition of American university artists and others: Robert "Bob" Gates, Helene Herzbrun, and Ben "Joe" Summerford. Helene Herzbrun was a partner until 1961. Alice Denney was the first director. Nesta Dorrance acquired the gallery from Denney around 1960 when she left to organize the Washington Gallery of Modern Art. Dorrance ran it until it closed in the mid-1970s.
The gallery exhibited "advanced art" and was associated with Washington Color School, color field, post-painterly abstraction and lyrical abstraction for a number of years, and was a major Washington outlet for that art. These are some of the artists who exhibited at Jefferson Place Gallery: Kenneth Noland, Howard Mehring, Gene Davis, Paul Reed (artist), Hilda Shapiro Thorpe, Sam Gilliam, William Eggleston, Willem De Looper, Eric Rudd, Rockne Krebs, John Gossage, Franklin White, Carroll Sockwell, David Staton, Jennie Lea Knight, Elliot Thompson, Blaine Larson, Sheila Isham, Yuri Schwebler, Valerie Hollister, Ben L. Summerford, Roy Slade, Ed Zerne, John P. Wise, V.V. Rankine, Robert Franklin Gates, David Moy, Roberto Polo, and Antoinette "Tony" Bradlee.
The competitors in contemporary art with Nesta Dorrance's Jefferson Place Gallery were Henri Gallery [Henrietta Ersham], Pyramid Gallery [Ramon Osuna and Luis Lastra] and later, Protetch-Rivkin Gallery [Max Protetch and Harold Rivkin].