About - Howard Shaw Fine Art

For over 40 years, Howard Shaw has assisted private collectors and institutions in acquiring exceptional artworks by some of the most important artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. He has established an international reputation for his expertise, integrity and scholarship and has been directly involved with the sale of hundreds of millions of dollars of fine art.

Now shifting from running one of the world’s leading galleries to focusing on secondary market private sales, Howard has launched Howard Shaw Fine Art, LLC, specializing in museum quality 19th and 20th Century European and American paintings, with a special emphasis on works by the Impressionist and early Modern masters.

In early 2022, Howard Shaw Fine Art will open a by appointment private viewing space and office on the Upper Eastside. In addition to his new independent advisory business, Howard Shaw continues to advise the Armand Hammer Foundation.

While President and Director of the Hammer Galleries, Howard has curated countless gallery exhibitions and art fair presentations including: Renoir (2010), Modern Masters: Paris and Beyond (2011), Objects in Space: Léger, Miró, Calder (2012), Impressionist Masters – Degas, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley (2013), The Modern Muse (2014), Matisse & Picasso (2015), Modern Masters: Between the Wars (2016), The Artist and the Model (2017), The Faces of Modernism (2018), and Sun, Sea and Sky – Painting the Mediterranean (2019), all of which have been accompanied by full-color catalogs with essays by leading scholars. Most recently, Howard presented van Gogh in Paris (2020) at Tefaf Maastricht.

For over several decades while at Hammer, Howard exhibited in some of the most prestigious international art fairs including Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Basel Hong Kong, Tefaf Maastricht, Tefaf New York, Masterpiece London, Art Chicago, the Palm Beach Art Fair, and the American Art Fair (NY). Exhibiting at these fairs has enabled Howard to build a huge global network of relationships with collectors, museum curators, galleries, private dealers, and auction houses, giving him access to all areas of the international art market.

While focusing primarily on building private collections, Howard has also placed important works of art in museums such as Norman Rockwell’s masterpiece Rosie the Riveter, 1943 in the collection of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Gilbert Stuart’s Portrait of George Washington, 1822 in the collection of the Louvre Abu Dhabi.