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historical notes
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The William H Schab Gallery specialized in rare books, illuminated manuscripts, Old master prints, and drawings. Opened in 1939 by William Schab, his son Frederick George Schab later joined the firm.
The gallery helped build private and public collections. Among other museums and libraries, they worked with the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), the Cleveland Museum, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the National Gallery of Canada, the Library of Congress, the Metropolitan Museum, the Morgan Library, the Yale Art Museum and Beinecke Rare Book Library, the Getty Museum.
Among other collectors, the father and son duo assisted in forming the collections of Lessing Rosenwald, Ian Woodner, Norton Simon, Arthur Ross, and Georg Schaefer.
In honor of Charles Ryskamp (1928-2010), Director of The Frick Collection (1987-1997), Frederick, donated 2,750 photographs of Old Master drawings to the Frick Art Reference library's Photoarchive from the firm's collection.
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