Anderson Galleries began as an auctioner of books, and prints in

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and comprised the Anderson Auction Company and Metropolitan Art Association. It was founded by John Anderson Jr. in 1900 and later renamed Anderson Galleries. In 1917, the gallery began selling antiques and art at their new location on Park Avenue and 59th Street, after previously being located at Madison Avenue and 40th Street . In the 1920s, Mitchell Kennerley, who ran the business, sold the works of

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, photographs of

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, and the works of

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, and

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. In 1926, Anderson Galleries took over important art sales from the

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, beginning with the

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auction. Collector Cortlandt Field Bishop, owner of the American Art Association, bought Anderson Galleries in 1927. In 1929, the establishments merged to be the American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, Inc. and operated at 30 East 57th Street in Manhattan. It sold decorative arts, American and Italian antiques, and modern and antique art, like works of the Barbizon School. In 1932, an exhibition of Israel Sack, a dealer of decorative arts and furniture, was held at American Art Association-Anderson Galleries.

Gallery

File:Arthur Nantel-EVERY DAY IN THE WEEK 6AM GIESSEN (CWM 19710261-0500).jpeg, Arthur Nantel, ''Every Day in the Week 6 a.m.'', May 1915, watercolor on paper,

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. Canadian War Memorials Exhibition, New York, 1919, Anderson Galleries, June 10, 1919 - July 31, 1919

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