Avery Galleries

Specialties
Avery Galleries strives to buy the best possible examples of American fine art in all genres. We believe that educating our clients and ourselves is integral to our mission and is critical to the placement of artwork in individual and institutional collections. We love art and we love people who love art. We believe that living with great works of art is a joy, a privilege and a responsibility. We exist to support people in that pursuit.

History
Established in 2001.

Avery Galleries is a relative newcomer to the gallery world having been founded in 2001. The principals, Richard Rossello and Washburn Oberwager, spent the first part of their careers in entirely different entrepreneurial business pursuits. What brought them together to form Avery Galleries was a mutual passion for American fine art. Oberwager was born in the Hudson River Valley and from the time he was a child lived with works by the artists who made the region famous. Rossello was a lifelong collector and avidly pursued collecting opportunities as an avocation. Lightning struck on Rossello’s forty-eighth birthday when he suffered a mild heart attack. While recovering from the resultant bypass surgery, he decided that life was too short to do anything by half measure. He retired from his restaurant operating company and with Oberwager opened Avery Galleries.