Mayor Gallery

Founded in 1925 by Fred Hoyland Mayor (1903-1973) in partnership with Douglas Cooper, the gallery opened in Cork Street, London in striking new premises designed by Brian O'Rorke and Arundell Clarke. The exhibition "Art Now" was held in October of that year to coincide with the publication of Herbert Read's book of that title. The gallery was also the venue of the first and only exhibition of Unit One in April 1934. Many artists exhibited for the first time in England at the Mayor Gallery. They include amongst others, Francis Bacon, Alexander Calder, Max Ernst, Paul Klee, Masson, Miro and Paolozzi. James Mayor, Fred's son, took over the Gallery in 1973 since then the Mayor Gallery has shown the work of many leading American artists. These include Roy Lichtenstein, Claus Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Cy Twombly and Andy Warhol.

In 1987 the Gallery entered into a brief partnership with Alex Gregory-Hood of the Rowan Gallery and they traded as the Mayor Rowan Gallery a relationship that lasted until 1993. Located in Gregory-Hood's Bruton Place premises held exhibitions featuring the works of Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat.