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Closson's print view role Dealer/Gallery dates 1866-2010 city Cincinnati state OH sex n/a historical notes Closson's, closed in 2010, was a Cincinnati establishment which was first founded as an art gallery in 1866 by Asa Burton Closson Jr. (1837-1910). The gallery offered interior design services, custom framing and sold window and wall coverings, Oriental rugs, nineteenth- and twentieth-century American paintings, prints, sculpture, Far Eastern and West African artifacts and Russian icons. In 1964, the gallery begins representing regional artists such as John Ruthven Frank McElwain and is run by Phyllis Weston (1947–). When the gallery relocates to Hyde Park in 2004, it included her name, The Phyllis J. Weston Art Gallery at Closson’s. Four years after the death of Alfred Burton Closson (1897-1989), and in 1993, the Closson family sold the business Stuart B. Sutphin, III (c. 1951-; department store heir, Hudson Department Store). decades of activity 1860-1870 1870-1880 1880-1890 1890-1900 1900-1910 1910-1920 1920-1930 1930-1940 1940-1950 1950-1960 email info@clossons.com phone 513.891.5531 updated 03/22/2024 12:09:28 bibliographic search Search Frick Art Reference Library Catalog Search Photoarchive Search Worldcat Search Wikidata Entry Archives/Repository Collection Title Collection Details Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art records, 1883-1962, bulk 1885-1940 see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Macbeth Gallery records, 1838-1968 (bulk 1892-1953). see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries records, 1858-1969, bulk 1919-1968 see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Rockwell Kent papers, [circa 1840]-1993, bulk 1935-1961 see details... «  back