Galerie Huit was an art collective and gallery established by American artists in Paris in 1950.
During the mid-twentieth century American artists traveled and lived in Paris to study and make art.
Many of the male American artists were able to finance excursions to France because of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (the G.I.
Led by Haywood Rivers, American artists in Paris at that time united to create a cooperative gallery space to show their work.
It existed from 1950 through 1954 according to a catalogue for the Reina Sofia Museum,[1] other sources state that exhibitions were held from 1950 through 1952.