Susan Teller

Owner, Susan Teller Gallery

The Susan Teller Gallery operates privately, out of the Mana Fine Arts facility in Jersey City, NJ. We opened in 1988 at 568 Broadway, New York, NY and were at that location through February, 2015. We specialize in American paintings and works on paper of the mid-twentieth century, and feature Urban/Industrial Realism, Modernism, and Surrealism. Among the many artists’ estates we represent are those for Peggy Bacon, William Baziotes, Bernarda Bryson Shahn, Sue Fuller, Michael J. Gallagher, Peter Grippe, Fannie Hillsmith, Hugh Mesibov, Angelo Pinto, Anne Ryan, Louis Schanker, Karl Schrag, Judith Shahn, Ben Shahn, Mitchell Siporin, Harry Sternberg, Ansei Uchima, and Lynd Ward.

In addition to numerous exhibition brochures, Teller has written on the work of Ivan Albright and cataloged the prints of Isabel Bishop, Dorothy Dehner, Riva Helfond, Fannie Hillsmith, Angelo Pinto, Albert Potter, and William E. Smith. She contributed to essays to the books Paths to the Press, 2006, and Art for Every Home: Associated American Artists, published in 2015. She participated in the video All about Prints, 2009.

The Gallery collaborates with institutional collections across the country. Recently we loaned works to Two Generations of Women Printmakers; Atelier 17 and The Art Students League, at the Art Students League, NY, 2021, Dreaming of Utopia, Roosevelt, New Jersey, at the Morven Museum, 2019-21, and Women March, the New-York Historical Society, 2020-21. Earlier loans were made to Innovation and Abstraction: Women Artists and Atelier 17, at the Pollock-Krashner House, 2016 and the Zimmerli Art Museum, 2017. In 2015 we loaned the exhibitions William Baziotes, Surrealist Watercolors, to the Allentown Museum of Art, and WPA: Jobs, “Artists Must Be Included in the WPA,” to the Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk. In the last few years we sent pieces to the exhibitions America @ Work, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, 2012, Brother Can You Spare a Dime, the Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, 2010, and Industrial Strength, Precisionism in New Jersey, Jersey City Museum, 2009.

Teller is a member of Art Table, on the Advisory Board of the Society of American Graphic Artists, NY, and on the Foundation Board of the International Fine Print Dealers Association. She has spoken on American art of the 1930s and 40s at the St. Louis Mercantile Library, Syracuse University, the Extension Division and the Grey Gallery of New York University, Artists Equity, the Manhattan Graphics Center, Queens College, Rutgers -- the State University of New Jersey, the University of Texas at Austin, and the 8th Annual Art Deco Conference, NY.

We participate in art fairs around the country including the New York Fine Art Print Fair, Ink Miami, the McNay Art Fair (San Antonio), the Philadelphia Antiques and Art Show, and fairs in Michigan, Missouri, and California.