Allan Frumkin (1927–2002) was an American art dealer with galleries in Chicago and New York City in the second half of the 20th century.
[4] He studied the sociology of architecture briefly at Cornell University and The New School for Social Research in New York City.
[5] Frumkin retired and closed the New York gallery in 1995[5] but continued to work as a private art dealer for most of the rest of his life.
[5] A professorship "to provide high-level interdisciplinary scholarship on the connections between visual arts and society" was established at the University of Chicago in 2005, through a $3 million gift from Frumkin's family.
The faculty chair is named the Allan and Jean Frumkin Professorship in the Visual Arts in the Committee on Social Thought.