Mayor Gallery

Founded in 1925 by Fred Mayor, the Mayor Gallery has since then promoted modern and contemporary art. The Gallery was operated for its first year at 27 Sackville Street, before closing in 1926. It reopened in 1933 at 18 Cork Street, in London’s historic arts district. The Mayor Gallery mounted the first foreign shows for prominent modernists such as Francis Bacon, Alexander Calder, and Paul Klee. In the 1970s, under the leadership of James Mayor (Fred’s son), the Gallery began to focus on the work of contemporary artists such as Eva Hesse, Roy Lichtenstein, Agnes Martin, Zero, and Otto Peine, amongst others.