GalleryLower East Side
Elliott Templeton Fine Arts
The highly aesthetic art in this gallery, named after a fictional post-WWI art dealer, can be summed up in one word: romantic.
Photography: Photo by Greg Navarro.
What to Expect
Artist-photographer Jack Pierson named his gallery after Elliott Templeton, the fictional American art dealer in Somerset Maugham's 1944 novel, The Razor's Edge, and a man seduced by the counts and countesses of Parisian society.
“The enjoyment of art is the only remaining ecstasy that’s neither immoral nor illegal.”
- Elliott Templeton
A hunger for luxe beauty seeps into the space. The interior’s champagne walls and antique bronze fixtures are the work of Fernando Santangelo. You may know his sumptuous style from the nearby Nine Orchard hotel.
The front room is intimate, sized for getting up close and personal with the art. You’ll often see work celebrating male beauty, nude and clothed. From photographic posture studies of young Ivy League students to debonair gentlemen seemingly plucked from films like Casablanca by the New York Dolls’ David Johansen.
The back room has art on the walls, a giant bookshelf, and a huge table frothing with flowers, ceramics, and other objets d’art you’ll want to take home.
About the Gallery
Jack Pierson founded Elliott Templeton in the fall of 2023. He had always wanted to be like the gay Greenwich Village antique dealers with exquisite taste he visited in the 1990s. You’ll find him at the gallery most weekends, along with his chihuahua, Chico.
