The Stable Gallery,[1] originally located on West 58th Street in New York City, was founded in 1953 by Eleanor Ward.
The Stable Gallery hosted early solo New York exhibitions for artists including Marisol Escobar, Robert Indiana and Andy Warhol.
Eleanor Ward had received much encouragement for her gallery from important figures such as Christian Dior, and by the mid 1950s the Stable Gallery would begin to annually host[2][3][4][5][6] a homage exhibit to the “9th Street Art Exhibition”[7] of 1951 where Ward would bring forth notable Abstract Expressionist artists including Willem de Kooning, Phillip Guston, Varujan Boghosian, Howard Kanovitz, Franz Kline, Nicolas Carone, Knox Martin, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, Joop Sanders, Fritz Bultman, and Jack Tworkov to exhibit.
In light of those developments Ward expanded the gallery beyond having only a permanent stable of artists, and began bringing forth artists of various movements to exhibit, including: Joseph Cornell, Varujan Boghosian, Edward Dugmore, Robert Engman, Marisol Escobar, John Ferren, Ian Hornak, Will Insley, Alex Katz, Conrad Marca-Relli, Joan Mitchell, Lowell Nesbitt, Isamu Noguchi, Larry Rivers, Leon Polk Smith, Richard Stankiewicz, Cy Twombly, Jack Tworkov, and Wilfred Zogbaum.
The building was also large enough to contain living quarters for Ward on the ground floor, opening to the garden at the rear.