[citation needed] The gallery was founded by Tibor de Nagy (1908–1993) and John Bernard Myers in 1950 and was located in the East 50s.
[1][2] It established emerging artists including Carl Andre, Helen Frankenthaler, Jane Wilson, Red Grooms, Larry Rivers, Nell Blaine, Jane Freilicher, Fairfield Porter, among others.
The gallery published early volumes of poetry by New York School poets John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and Frank O’Hara.
It also works with a number of estates of such figures as Joe Brainard, Rudy Burckhardt, Donald Evans, and Jess.
The gallery also has collaborative publications under the Tibor de Nagy Editions imprint.