Boris Mirski Gallery
Boston's Beacon Hill by Mirski artist Karl Zerbe. | |
| Formation | 1944 |
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| Founder | Boris Mirski |
| Dissolved | 1979 |
| Type | Art gallery |
| Headquarters | 166 Newbury Street Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Services | Mounted solo, group, and touring exhibitions of figurative and abstract Avant-garde, Boston Expressionist and African art. Also provided framing services and fine arts instruction. |
Gallery director | Alan Fink |
The Boris Mirski Gallery (1944–1979) was a Boston art gallery owned by Boris Chaim Mirski (1898–1974). The gallery was known for exhibiting key figures in Boston Expressionism, New York and international modern art styles and non-western art. For years, the gallery dominated with both figurative and African work. As an art dealer, Mirski was known for supporting young, emerging artists, including many Jewish-Americans, as well as artists of color, women artists and immigrants. As a result of Mirski's avant-garde approach to art and diversified approach to dealing art, the gallery was at the center of Boston's burgeoning modern mid-century art scene, as well as instrumental in the birth and development of Boston Expressionism, the most significant branch of American Figurative Expressionism.