NEW GRAFTON GALLERY
The New Grafton Gallery was founded in 1968 by David Wolfers (1917-2001), a leading light in London's private gallery community, who promoted modern British figurative art from the start of his career as an art dealer and in the early 1980s the gallery moved to 49 Church Road, Barnes, London and from its beginnings in London's Mayfair. The New Grafton Gallery actively promoted a cross-section of British talent, which included the established names of Thomas John Coates (1941-2023), Adye Mary Fedden (1915-2012), Elisabeth Frink, Peter George Greenham (1909-1992), John Nash, Ruskin Spear (1911-1990), John Keith Vaughan (1912-1977) and Carel Victor Morlais Weight (1908-1997). The gallery has become a mecca for collectors and artists alike. David Wolfers remained at the helm until his death in 2001 and the gallery is now run by David's daughter, Claudia Annabel Wolfers (1961-). There was an unconnected earlier Grafton Galleries. Other Suffolk artists who exhibited with the New Grafton Gallery include Catharine Whalley Alexander, Joanna Carrington, Alan Dodd, Fred Dubery, Edmund Fairfax-Lucy, Jeremy Fraser, Margaret Green, Emilie Gwynne-Jones, Diana Howard, John Lidzey, Paula Nightingale, Andrew Pringle, Elinor Bellingham Smith, Valerie Cecilia Thoresby and John Verney.