c1860 David Gordon establishes ‘The Empire Picture Frameworks’.
c1884 David’s brother Ephraim escapes one of the last Jewish
pogroms & joins the business. Initially framing & selling religious
reproductions in the North-West, the business later sold artist’s
materials & paintings.
1953 Ephraim’s son Nat establishes ‘The Art Shop’, developing a
gallery alongside china & glass, bringing names such as
Waterford & Wedgewood to the city.
1959 Nat relocates & adds a boutique selling famous couturiers of the
day such as Jean Muir, Christian Dior, Laura Ashley, Poly Peck
& Pringle, as well as classic designs in wood, glass, ceramics
& furniture from the Scandanavian countries.
1969 ‘The Troubles’ bring that business to an end.
1970 Nat establishes ‘The Keys Gallery’.
1983 Nat establishes ‘The Gordon Gallery’.
1983 Nat’s son Richard establishes ‘The Gordon Picture Frameworks’.
1993 Richard relocates as ‘Gordon Galleries’.
1996 Regeneration of the city centre forces closure.
Ephraim Gordon
Nat Gordon
(by Basil Blackshaw)
Richard Gordon
Re-established, by Richard, in November 2005,
‘gordon gallery’ is a contemporary exhibition space once
again situated in the heart of the city of Derry, within the
historic city walls, located in a wide airy street of Georgian
and Victorian buildings and within walking distance of
several car parks and the bus station.
2000 square feet of exhibition space with over 182 feet
of linear hanging provides an ideal area in which to show
contemporary, mostly Irish, art of the highest quality. Many
of the names shown are at the top of their profession in both
the North and South of Ireland. Some have a history of
showing with the gallery over a long period of time with one
or two having an association of some fifty years or more.
An ideal space for travelling shows, together with new
up and coming artists in the fields of painting, drawing,
sculpture and print making, the gallery showcases the work
to both private and corporate collectors.
gordon gallery
contemporary fine art
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