In 1979, Howard Godel decided to take a leap-of-faith. At the precocious age of 21, Mr. Godel was already a national authority on toy trains, and having mastered that, he felt the need for a new challenge. He was introduced to the world of the Hudson River School artists, and from that point knew where his true passion lay. Starting from scratch, Mr. Godel began buying and selling paintings, building up a strong network of clients and dealers. Throughout the years, Mr. Godel was able to purchase higher and higher quality works, and now has one of the most extensive inventories of renowned American painters. Mr. Godel has established one of New York's foremost art galleries, specializing not only in the Hudson River School, but also in other nineteenth- and early twentieth- century American art.
Godel & Co . is pleased to offer the finest quality paintings to individual collectors, dealers, and museums, as well as to significant private and corporate collections. Godel & Co.'s extensive inventory features works of art in a diverse range of style and subject, including the Hudson River School, American genre painting, nineteenth-century still lifes, Luminism, marine painting, American Impressionism, the Ash Can School, and Early Modernism. The gallery regularly handles the work of Albert Bierstadt, J. G. Brown, James Buttersworth, Childe Hassam, Martin Johnson Heade, Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, Fitz Hugh Lane, Willard Metcalf, Thomas Moran, William Trost Richards, Theodore Robinson, Severin Roesen, among many others.
Godel & Co.'s large and continually changing inventory makes the gallery an invaluable resource for many collectors, dealers, interior designers, and art consultants. Located on East 72nd Street, just off Madison Avenue in Manhattan, Godel & Co. is a leading gallery both in terms of sales, and in the diversity and high quality of its nineteenth- and early twentieth- century American paintings in prices that range from $10,000 to over $500,000.
In addition, Godel & Co. has assisted in forming exceptional private collections and the corporate collections of The Masco Corporation, Taylor, Michigan; The Hartford Steamboiler Collection, Hartford, Connecticut, and others. The gallery has also sold paintings to numerous museum collections, including the New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut; Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois; The Museums at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York; and the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina.
As an added service for clients, Godel & Co. has an antique and fine reproduction frame department. Choices include frames appropriate to Hudson River School and Barbizon paintings, as well as the finest Boston School style American Impressionist frames designed by Carrig-Rohane, Walfred Thulin, Foster Brothers, Herman Dudley Murphy, and James McNeill Whistler. The gallery also carries a complete line of exceptional reproduction frames, fabricated by custom duplication of the finest period frames. Edward Holland, Director of Frames and Operations, is eager to assist with any requests or queries.
