Anderson Galleries began as an auctioner of books, and prints in New York City and comprised the Anderson Auction Company and Metropolitan Art Association.
[1] In 1917, the gallery began selling antiques and art at their new location on Park Avenue and 59th Street, after previously being located at Madison Avenue and 40th Street .
[2] In the 1920s, Mitchell Kennerley, who ran the business, sold the works of Marsden Hartley, photographs of Alfred Stieglitz, and the works of Georgia O'Keeffe, John Marin, and Charles Demuth.
[2] Collector Cortlandt Field Bishop, owner of the American Art Associtation, bought Anderson Galleries in 1927.
In 1929, the establishments merged to be the American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, Inc. and operated at 30 East 57th Street in Manhattan.