Grapestake Gallery in San Francisco
The Grapestake Gallery was founded in San Francisco in 1974 by Thomas V. Meyer and his sister Ursula Gropper. The gallery was the first in San Francisco to exhibit photographs concurrently with painting and sculpture. The gallery helped to introduce and validate photography as a fine-art and collecting medium. The gallery opened with an Ansel Adams retrospective and later exhibited artists such as Harry Callahan, Joel Meyerowitz, Paul Strand, William Eggleston, Richard Misrach, Berenice Abbott, Imogen Cunningham, Judy Dater, Lewis Baltz, and Jerry Uelsmann. Richard Misrach had his first one-man show here. Grapestake Gallery closed in 1984, but Meyer and Gropper continued to promote fine-art photographs as independent dealers.
