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Ronald Feldman
Ronald Feldman (1938 – December 22, 2022) was an American art dealer and advocate for the arts, especially contemporary performance and conceptual art.
Ira Ronald Feldman was born in the Bronx to Irving and Judith (Solon) Feldman on April 25, 1938. His father Irving was the President of Zelart Drug Company and served as President of Toiletry Merchandisers of America. Ronald grew up on Long Island in Long Beach. He graduated from Syracuse University with a B.A. degree and later from New York University Law School with a law degree.
In 1963 he married Frayda Futterman. Futterman grew up in Larchmont, New York and worked at the McCall corporation.
After law school Feldman worked for the corporate-law firm of Hefland, Lesser & Moriber and made partner there. Feldman did not enjoy being a corporate lawyer and with his wife's help opened Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in November 1971.
After running the Gallery for most of his life, he retired in 2019. He died on December 20, 2022 in Chappaqua, N.Y. at the age of 84 after struggling with Alzheimer’s disease.
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts was founded in 1971 with the intention of being private dealers rather than a public gallery and was located in an Upper East Side townhouse on East 74th Street near the Whitney Museum.
Feldman Fine Arts became a haven for performance and conceptual art that other dealers and galleries would not represent or show. In 1972, the gallery held Hannah Wilke’s debut solo exhibition "in which the artist displayed a suite of her anatomically-allusive wall-mounted sculptures." The gallery was an early proponent of art that featured themes of women's rights, politics, the environment, and war.
In 1974, Feldman worked with Joseph Beuys, offering him gallery space, but instead creating a ten-day lecture tour titled "Energy Plan for the Western Man". The tour started with a public lecture held at The New School. This was the first time Beuys expounded on his ideas of social sculpture in America. At the time he was refusing to travel to the U.S. in protest of the Vietnam war.
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Ronald Feldman
Ronald Feldman (1938 – December 22, 2022) was an American art dealer and advocate for the arts, especially contemporary performance and conceptual art.
Ira Ronald Feldman was born in the Bronx to Irving and Judith (Solon) Feldman on April 25, 1938. His father Irving was the President of Zelart Drug Company and served as President of Toiletry Merchandisers of America. Ronald grew up on Long Island in Long Beach. He graduated from Syracuse University with a B.A. degree and later from New York University Law School with a law degree.
In 1963 he married Frayda Futterman. Futterman grew up in Larchmont, New York and worked at the McCall corporation.
After law school Feldman worked for the corporate-law firm of Hefland, Lesser & Moriber and made partner there. Feldman did not enjoy being a corporate lawyer and with his wife's help opened Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in November 1971.
After running the Gallery for most of his life, he retired in 2019. He died on December 20, 2022 in Chappaqua, N.Y. at the age of 84 after struggling with Alzheimer’s disease.
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts was founded in 1971 with the intention of being private dealers rather than a public gallery and was located in an Upper East Side townhouse on East 74th Street near the Whitney Museum.
Feldman Fine Arts became a haven for performance and conceptual art that other dealers and galleries would not represent or show. In 1972, the gallery held Hannah Wilke’s debut solo exhibition "in which the artist displayed a suite of her anatomically-allusive wall-mounted sculptures." The gallery was an early proponent of art that featured themes of women's rights, politics, the environment, and war.
In 1974, Feldman worked with Joseph Beuys, offering him gallery space, but instead creating a ten-day lecture tour titled "Energy Plan for the Western Man". The tour started with a public lecture held at The New School. This was the first time Beuys expounded on his ideas of social sculpture in America. At the time he was refusing to travel to the U.S. in protest of the Vietnam war.