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William Wadsworth Findlay - c. 1870

William Wadsworth Findlay began The Findlay Galleries in 1870 in Kansas City, Missouri. During the late 1800's, Kansas City was the "Gateway to the West" - the jumping-off point where people with dreams of gold, cheap land. and the "American Dream" began their journey into the New Frontier. The Findlay Art Gallery was born at this unique time in America. Ranchers drove their cattle to market at the rail-head stockyards in Kansas City to return home with furnishings, mirrors and sometimes ... art from the gallery.
As people from the East came to establish new homes, Kansas City grew and so did the Findlays’ business. That era began the Findlay art tradition; W.W.'s sons, grandsons, and great grandsons followed -- and today, great-great-great grand-children continue the tradition.

At the turn of the century, 2nd generation Findlays took a chance with two young artists -- Charles Russell and Frederic Remington, now both considered as the best of the New West throughout the art world. Today, the best museums in America, such as the Chicago Art Institute and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, show these paintings. Between 1935 and the early 1960's, the business, operated by 3rd generation Findlays, expanded to Chicago, New York, and Paris.

Findlay Gallery- c. 1900

"The world changes and so does business", Peter comments, "The art business today is so ... different from when I started 40 years ago. High prices and the influence of the auction galleries have made the trading market much tighter and the public better informed. In a market where a mistake can be an expensive one, the role of the dealer as advisor and 'eye' has become critical."

William Wadsworth Findlay - c. 1870

The Peter Findlay Gallery specializes in important 19th and 20th Century European paintings, sculptures, and prints. We buy and sell the work of artists such as Degas, Matisse, Monet, Picasso, Sisley, Leger, Pissarro, Chagall, Boudin, Rouault, Marquet, Nolde, Klee, Miro, Vlaminck and Utrillo. The Gallery is proud of its reputation as one of the leading galleries in the world representing impressionist, post-impressionist, and modern masters.

Findlay Gallery- c. 1920

Findlay Gallery- c. 1940, 57th &Madison, NYC

David Findlay (center left), with his father and two brothers, c.1940

The Findlays Today