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New York, NY 10012
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Founded in 1985, Susan Sheehan Gallery specializes in American Post-War and Contemporary prints and works on paper, with an emphasis on Minimalism and Pop Art. 

Since its inception over three decades ago in New York, the primary focus of Susan Sheehan Gallery has been to create highly curated presentations of Post-War American masterworks of printmaking. The gallery puts great emphasis on rigorous scholarship, connoisseurship, and the relevancy of each work.

Susan Sheehan Gallery is a leading specialist in prints produced during the seminal era spanning the decades of the 1960s through the 1990s which saw artists including Vija Celmins, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Joan Mitchell, Edward Ruscha, Cy Twombly, and Andy Warhol incorporating the medium as a central element of their artistic practices.

The gallery aims to educate and work with collectors over long periods of time to build cohesive and thoughtful collections. We have placed work in many significant public institutions both in the United States and abroad, working jointly with curators and often providing both scholarly information and sourcing particularly noteworthy master prints.

Originally located on 57th Street and later moving to Chelsea, the gallery has maintained a presence in New York since 1985. Currently, we are located in the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District of New York.

Over the course of its history, the gallery has mounted nearly one hundred solo and group exhibitions, published numerous catalogues, and created Catalogue Raisonnés of prints for artists including John McLaughlin and Robert Indiana. We have worked with artists during their lifetimes, such as Ellsworth Kelly and Joan Mitchell, and represent the prints from the Kelly Estate.

The gallery has been a member of the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) since 1992 and Susan is currently a board member, executive committee member, and officer.
Works Available By:
Josef Albers
John Baldessari
Louise Bourgeoise
Alexander Calder 
Vija Celmins
John Chamberlain
Willem de Kooning
Richard Diebenkorn
Richard Estes
Dan Flavin
Helen Frankenthaler
Robert Gober
Adolph Gottlieb
Philip Guston
Al Held
David Hockney
Jim Hodges
Edward Hopper
Robert Indiana
Kelly James Marshall
Jasper Johns
Donald Judd
Ellsworth Kelly
Sol LeWitt
Roy Lichtenstein
Glenn Ligon
Louis Lozowick
Robert Mangold
Brice Marden
Agnes Martin
John McLaughlin
Joan Mitchell
Robert Motherwell
Bruce Nauman
Barnett Newman
Jackson Pollock
Robert Rauschenberg
Ed Ruscha
Robert Ryman
Fred Sandback
Richard Serra
David Smith
Kiki Smith
Frank Stella
Wayne Thiebaud
James Turrell
Cy Twombly
Andy Warhol
H.C. Westermann

 

 
"SEQUENCE" installation view, courtesy of Susan Sheehan Gallery
"SEQUENCE" installation view, courtesy of Susan Sheehan Gallery
"Japan and American Printmaking" installation view, courtesy of Susan Sheehan Gallery
"Japan and American Printmaking" installation view, courtesy of Susan Sheehan Gallery
Booth installation view at Art Basel 2022
Booth installation view at The Art Show 2023
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Online Programming

Vija Celmins

Art Basel OVR20c - Vija Celmins: The Image Redescribed



Vija Celmins (b. 1938) is renowned for her meticulous renderings of vast natural wonders. This presentation of six exceptional original prints demonstrates her signature, uncompromising style and her mastery of printmaking techniques.

 
Current Exhibition

Ellsworth Kelly

Ellsworth Kelly: Plant Lithographs



June 6, 2024 - August 2, 2024
Susan Sheehan Gallery is pleased to present Ellsworth Kelly: Plant Lithographs, an exhibition highlighting the balance of abstraction and gestural expressionism of Ellsworth Kelly’s natural forms.

 
Past Exhibitions

Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden

SEQUENCE



April 25, 2024 - May 31, 2024
Susan Sheehan Gallery is pleased to present Sequence, an exhibition exploring the serial experiments of a group of leading post-war American artists including Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, and Brice Marden. The presentation will cover several rare and complete print portfolios that delineate the possibilities of systematic sequence, arrangement, and succession, concepts inherently embedded in the serial processes of printmaking as a medium. Highlights in the show include (to Don Judd, colorist) 1-7, an extraordinary series of seven monochromatic lithographs in saturated hues by Dan Flavin, dedicated to his good friend and collaborator Donald Judd. The lithographic plates were inked edge-to-edge with an even application of color, most of which were straight out of the can, that overruns the papers’ deckled edges on three sides. Exhibited on the facing wall is Donald Judd’s exceptionally rare set of 13 woodcuts in cadmium red and cerulean blue that were selected to be republished by Judd and Edition der Galerie Heiner Friedrich in 1969. They depict Judd’s various iterations on parallelograms and their corresponding mirror images and elaborate his interest in lines, intervals, and divisions of pictorial space. Complete sets by Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, and Brice Marden will also be featured in the show. Sequence will be open April 25 – May 31.

Ellsworth Kelly

Ellsworth Kelly's Colored Paper Images



April 23, 2020 - May 31, 2020
Susan Sheehan Gallery is showcasing a group of works from the series Colored Paper Images by Ellsworth Kelly created in 1976. These works were made in small editions, supplemented by artist’s proof impressions. Kelly considered each of these works unique because of the variations in each image caused by the paper pulp printing process. This significant historic group traces Ellsworth Kelly’s progression of utilizing the distinctive medium of colored paper pulp to expand upon his seminal investigations into perceptions of form, line, and color. However, his willingness to experiment with bleeding color and the variable surface qualities of handmade paper was a radical departure from his established preoccupation (which he maintained in paintings) with immaculate shape, bounded color, and pristine surface. The unpredictable nature of the materials allowed chance to enter into Kelly’s highly controlled working process while also making each impression distinctive. The highly experimental series was created in collaboration with the master printer Kenneth Tyler in Mt. Kisco, New York in 1976 and 1977. It was exhibited in Colored Paper Images at The Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1978 and it was also shown at the exhibition Colored Paper Images at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. in 2012. ​

Helen Frankenthaler, Vija Celmins, Jasper Johns, Ed Ruscha, Brice Marden, Wayne Thiebaud, John McLaughlin, Alexander Calder, David Smith, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, Ellsworth Kelly, Lee Krasner

The Armory Show - The Handmakers' Tale: American Prints and the Women Who Made Them



March 5, 2020 - March 8, 2020
The American post-war period, often referred to as the American Print Renaissance, saw the birth of a group of important and influential printmaking workshops, many of which were owned and operated by women as well as important masterworks of printmaking created by women artists. “The Handmakers’ Tale,” will examine, through the artworks exhibited and an accompanying e-catalogue, the ground-breaking work and legacy of these woman workshop founders, master printers, and artists. The exhibition will focus on the businesses they built, the renowned artists they printed with and mentored, the works they made, and the artistic and business models they developed that proved incredibly influential.

Jasper Johns, Wayne Thiebaud, Ellsworth Kelly, Ed Ruscha, Roy Lichtenstein, David Hockney, Andy Warhol, Sam Francis

The Art Show



February 27, 2020 - March 1, 2020
Presenting a selection of Post-War American masterworks of printmaking. Frank Stella, "Double Gray Scramble," 1973.