The Gallery at 6th and 6th About the Owner

About the Owner….

Despite being told not to get a degree in art history because she’d never get a job in the field, Lauren Rabb began her career with Gary Snyder at the Princeton Gallery of Fine Art in New Jersey (later Snyder Fine Arts of New York) a few months after graduating from college. The gallery handled contemporary and modern art, including the works of Milton Avery and Ralph Rosenborg.

Her spouse’s career brought her to Washington, D.C. , where she worked in the Conservation Department of the National Gallery of Art, gaining knowledge of condition and conservation of artworks. However, her desire to get back into the private gallery world made her determined to work for Hollis Taggart Galleries, the best gallery in town. She begged to be given a job until the owner relented and hired her, his first employee.

Hollis Taggart Galleries specialized in 19^th and early 20^th century American painting. Lauren worked with art by the most famous Hudson River , Luminist, American Impressionist, and early Modernist artists, such as Thomas Cole, Frederick Church, John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer, Childe Hassam, and Andrew Wyeth. She became a specialist in the field herself, publishing catalogues and articles on the American Impressionists, the Pennsylvania Impressionists, Americans in Brittany , and curating a ground-breaking restrospective on William Lamb Picknell. Her work has appeared in The Encyclopedia of Antiques, and in the magazine American Art Review.

When the gallery moved to New York City , Lauren went back to school and received an independent Masters Degree from George Washington University in American Art, Literature and Religion. She taught continuing education at Georgetown University and, after the publication of her first novel, taught at the renowned Writers Center in Bethesda, MD.

Lauren’s two published novels, Walking Through Time and Interview with Mrs. Berlinski are available online or through the publisher, Windswept House [Mt. Desert, Maine]. Her extensive work on the artist William Lamb Picknell is in the collection of the Archives of American Art in Washington, DC .