James Goodman Gallery was founded by James Goodman in Buffalo, NY in 1958, to showcase artwork by both Contemporary American artists and established Modern masters. It subsequently relocated to New York in 1967, where it ran through 2019.

The gallery organized major exhibitions of paintings, sculpture, and works on paper by Lichtenstein, Calder, Dubuffet, Moore, Matisse and countless others, with an emphasis on the American Pop movement.

The gallery was Jim’s life’s work. He built private collections and placed works in The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Currier Museum and others. Alongside a passion for art, relationships with colleagues formed the heart of the gallery. His circle included notable art dealers Richard Gray, Allan Stone, Donald Morris, Rachel Adler, Arnie Glimcher, Bill Acquavella, Eleanore and Daniel Saidenberg, Klaus and Dolly Perls, Leo Castelli, Leslie Waddington, Ernst Beyeler, Daniel Malingue, Dieter Brusberg, Rudolf Zwirner, and Chieko Hasegawa. He was also close with artists such as Chuck Close, Robert Indiana, Fernando Botero, and Roy and Dorothy Lichtenstein. 

A founding member of the Art Dealers Association of America since its inception in 1962, Jim served as President of the Association from 1994-1997 and continued to serve on the Board of Directors for many years. Throughout his career, Jim generously mentored many young dealers and instilled in them the collegiality that marked his business style.

The library, lovingly built over decades, has been gifted in his memory to the Burchfield Penney Art Center and the University Libraries at the University at Buffalo, NY.

The Archives of American Art has graciously accepted the donation of the James Goodman Gallery papers. All inquiries regarding research or access to gallery publications should be directed to their attention: https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/james-goodman-gallery-records-22275

A clip from Jim’s oral history interview can be found on the Archives of American Art website: https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-james-goodman-15714

A publication compiled in honor of the gallery’s 60^th anniversary can be viewed online:

https://issuu.com/jamesgoodmangallery/docs/60years

For sales-related and all other inquiries, please contact Kathy Goodman at kathy@komaroffgoodman.com

Exhibitions in New York City

Henry Moore - Sculpture and Drawings, 1983
Roy Lichtenstein - A Drawing Retrospective, 1984 (artist’s first drawing show in America) Henri Matisse Drawings, 1985
Karel Appel - Cobra Paintings: 1948-1951, 1985
Six Artists in Three Forms, Part I and II, 1986

Part I: de Kooning, Johns, Kelly, Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg, Stella

Part II: Dubuffet, Giacometti, Leger, Matisse, Miro, Picasso

Strong Statements in Black and White:  Ellsworth Kelly, Joel Shapiro, Barry LeVa, Myron Stout, Lawrence Weiner, and others, 1987

Cubism - Le Fauconnier, Gleizes, Kupka, Marcoussis, Metzinger, Valmier, Villon, 1989

Pop on Paper, 1990
European Sculpture & Works on Paper: Botero, Arp, Archipenko, Moore, Degas, Miro, Gonzalez, Laurens and Picasso, 1993
Contemporary Sculpture & Works on Paper, Calder, Oldenburg, Lichtenstein,

Rauschenberg, Hunt and Shapiro, 1993
The Human Form in Twentieth Century Art: Butler, Lichtenstein, Chadwick, de

Kooning, Leger, Nadelman, Degas, Maillol, Marini, Dubuffet, Matisse, Moore, Botero, Picasso, Wesselmann Fernando Botero Drawings 1964-1988, 1994
Niki de Saint Phalle: Tableaux Éclatés, 1994
Henry Moore: A Centennial Exhibition, 1998
Bruce McCall, 1999, 2001, 2005
Mid-Century Masters; Works on paper, 2003
Since the Sixties: Rosenquist, Lichtenstein and Oldenburg, 2003
Lester Johnson: Four Decades of Painting, 2004
Pop Then & Now: Lichtenstein, Thiebaud, Ruscha, Wesselmann & others, Spring 2004
Calder: Space in Play, 2014
Dubuffet: Form & Texture, 2015
Yayoi Kusama: Paintings, Sculptures and Works on Paper, 2016
Reframing the Brushstroke: Kline to Lichtenstein, Hofmann to Dine, 2017

Exhibitions in Buffalo, NY

Collector’s Items, 1960
Contemporary American Paintings, 1960
An exhibition of new acquisitions by European and American Artists, 1961

The Early Years 1915-1921: an exhibition of Drawings by Charles Burchfield, 1961

International Sculpture Show, 1961

A Group of Recent Paintings by Tony Urquhart, 1961

The Eight and George Bellows, 1961

A Group of Important Sculptor’s Drawings, 1961

A Group of Recent Drawings by Harriet Greif, 1961

Recent Oils by Robert Goodnough, 1961

Christmas Show: Fine Art for the Fine Art of Giving, 1962

Paul Klee-Julius Bissier, 1962

A Group of Recent Watercolors by Morton Grossman, 1962

The Middle Years 1922-1942: Drawings by Charles Burchfield, 1962

A Group of Watercolors by Robert Andrew Parker, 1962

Sculpture and Sculpture Drawings, 1962
Joseph Stella, 1962
Lester Johnson, 1962
Art for Christmas, 1962
Karel Appel, 1963
Andre Derain, 1963
Salon Select 63, 1963

Robert Goodnough Recent Paintings, 1963
Drawings and Sculpture, 1963
Charles Burchfield: A Group of Watercolors and A Birthday Tribute, 1963
Edward Whiteman Recent Paintings, 1963
Leonard Baskin: Sculpture, Drawings, Graphics, 1963
Paintings by Milton Avery, 1963
Holiday Exhibit: Drawings, Graphics, Paintings, Sculpture, 1963

‘Woman’ Drawings by Willem de Kooning, 1964
Giuseppe Macri, 1964
Lynn Chadwick Sculpture, 1964
Recent Paintings by Harold Altman, 1964

Manolo: Sculpture and Drawings, 1964
Harvey Breverman Exhibition, 1964
A Select Group of Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, and Prints at the Wade Park Manor (In Cleveland OH, associated with the Donald Morris Gallery in Detroit), 1964
Paintings: Robert Goodnough, 1965
Paintings: George Deem, 1965
Paintings by Cornelia Foss, 1965
Michael Ayrton: Sculpture and Drawings, 1965
Fernand Leger Drawings, 1965
Walter Prochownik Drawings, 1965
Recent Paintings by Ronald Wise, 1966

Publications

James Goodman Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein Works on Paper: A Retrospective, November–December 2006