Driscoll Babcock’s program celebrates the dialogue between the past and the present - showing contemporary artists whose work is grounded in the history of art, yet engaged with the most pertinent issues of today, as well as selections from three centuries of historical American art. As New York’s oldest art gallery, Driscoll Babcock’s 165 year history makes it one of the oldest cultural institutions in New York City. The gallery has shown some of the most influential artists of the 19th and 20th centuries - during their lifetimes - including George Inness, Winslow Homer, and Marsden Hartley. During the 20th and 21st centuries, the gallery has continued to present masterpieces by Milton Avery, Robert Duncanson, Arthur Dove, Stuart Davis, and Franz Kline, to name a few, and place these works in prominent institutions such as the National Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, as well as important private collections throughout the world. Driscoll Babcock emphasizes that classic art can have contemporary significance and that contemporary art can have classic pertinence.