Current | Mark Landersman & Selections From Our Inventory

Mark Landersman with Selections from our Inventory. Mark Landersman (Brooklyn, NY, 1896-1985) was a career garment worker and self-taught artist. Taking a cue from the legendary dealer Edith Halpert, given the holiday season, our inventory selections will focus on more modestly priced objects and art. This exhibit runs from December 11 to January 17, 2026.

Mark Landersman was born into a Jewish immigrant family in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. His mother was related to Boris Thomashevsky (star of Yiddish theatre), and his father trained as an architect. However, despite his father’s formal education, he and his family worked in the garment industry, as many Jewish immigrants did upon arriving in America.

Mark married Pearl Antonier, worked in the garment industry, and became a buyer, merchandiser, and designer.

In 1954, Mark began painting with gouache while recuperating from an operation. Over the next 30 years, Landersman experimented with abstract and representational paintings while working in the garment industry and in retirement. 

This group of small paintings explores abstract and semi-abstract motifs that Landersman distills and isolates, e.g., a pile of lumber or a honeycomb against a red ground, both of which recall paintings by the visionary Forrest Bess. He combines patterning and structures with inventive architecture—they appear to have been informed by the lights, energy, and pace of his commute between Brooklyn and Manhattan.

Inventory selections feature a group of works in iron, game boards, and works by Sister Gertrude Morgan, Jon Serl, William Fellini, Weegee, Robert Loughlin, Jonathan Borofsky, and others.