The figurative painter Lois Dodd, the last living founder of the
Tanager Gallery (1952 - 1962), the most
influential of the artist - run galleries that clustered on East 10th Street, said it was difficult for people in today's supercharged contemporary art world to imagine how profoundly uninterested collectors and dealers were in the 1950s in most art being made at the time.
JS: Your first exhibitions were held at some of the
influential artist cooperatives of the 1950s, like Roko Gallery, the Sun Gallery, and
Tanager Gallery.