The Fleisher/Ollman Gallery opened in Philadelphia in 1952 as the Janet Fleisher Gallery. Over the course of the next four decades, the Gallery established a reputation as one of the world’s premiere sources of self-taught art, defining the field and helping to develop major public and private collections of this once-marginalized group of artists. Since 1997, when John Ollman became sole owner, the Gallery’s emphasis has shifted toward the exhibition of contemporary artists in order to reflect the influence of the self-taught. This revised curatorial mission—recently amended to remove from discourse entirely the “self-taught” label as a distinct entity—has become particularly relevant as many contemporary artists eschew the academic in favor of intuitive practice. In addition to our modern and contemporary interests, we continue to showcase the most significant American vernacular artists of the 20th century.
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