Jefferson Place Gallery

The gallery was associated with the Washington Color School artists.

The Jefferson Place Gallery was initially founded in 1957 as a cooperative gallery,[3] by five current and former art professors at American University, William Howard Calfee, Robert Franklin Gates, Helene Herzbrun, Mary Ryan Orwen, and Ben Summerford.

Other artists who joined the cooperative in 1957 were George Bayliss, Lothar Brabanski, Colin Greenly, Leonard Maurer, Kenneth Noland, and Baltimore-based artist Shelby Shackelford.

The gallery exhibited "advanced art" and was associated with Washington Color School, a color field, post-painterly abstraction and lyrical abstraction for a number of years, and was a major Washington outlet for that art.

Some artists who also exhibited at Jefferson Place Gallery: Antoinette Pinchot Bradlee, William Christenberry, Gene Davis, Willem De Looper, William Eggleston, Sam Gilliam,[6] John Gossage, Valerie Hollister,[5] Sheila Isham,[5] Jennie Lea Knight, Rockne Krebs, Blaine Larson, Howard Mehring,[5] Mary Pinchot Meyer, David Moy, Roberto Polo, V. V. Rankine, Paul Reed (artist),[5] Eric Rudd, Yuri Schwebler,[5] Roy Slade,[5] D. Jack Solomon, David Staton,[5] Elliot Thompson, Hilda Shapiro Thorpe,[5] Frederic Matys Thursz, Franklin White,[5] John P. Wise, Mary Orwen,[4] Carroll Sockwell,[7] and Ed Zerne.