Throckmorton Fine Art is a New York based art gallery specializing in Latin photography, as well as Asian and Pre-Columbian Stone and Jade Antiquities.
Spencer Throckmorton founded Throckmorton Fine Art in 1980 and maintains a high profile gallery in New York City’s East 57th Street art district that he has become one of the foremost sources for important Latin American Contemporary and Vintage Photography, as well as for antique Pre-Columbian artworks, and Chinese Jade and Antiquities.
Throckmorton is unique in its approach to dealing in several categories and for supporting a vigorous exhibition and publishing program for each specialty.
Spencer Throckmorton and his colleagues most value the relationships they have built not just with their clients but with the artists and museum officials and scholars whose fascination with the subjects they feature matches theirs. They strive daily to create an environment in which the focus is on building appreciation for the Arts of the Americas from Pre-Columbian times to the present. They are known for devoting the time and resources needed to properly position an artist, or a collection of works, in the best light. Few gallerists are as willing to work over long periods of time with artists as they develop their talents and points of distinction and to actively seek out clients who will educate their eye and build an appreciation for the artist and the medium.
As a result of this philosophy, Spencer Throckmorton has built a major collection of vintage photographs of Frida Kahlo, acquired an important group of rare vintage photographs by Tina Modotti and Edward Weston from their Mexican years, and has a large inventory of Mexican art from the Modernist period as well as contemporary Latin American photo-based art. The gallery often is asked to loan artworks to museums for special exhibitions.
It is no accident that Throckmorton works simultaneously in promoting contemporary Latin American photography, Pre-Columbian art and Chinese Jades and Antiquities.