In The Girl with the Gallery, journalist Lindsay Pollock vividly brings to life the fascinating, pioneering--and almost entirely forgotten--art dealer, Edith Gregor Halpert. In 1926, Halpert opened one of the first art galleries in Greenwich Village. She ran her Downtown Gallery for forty-four years, inventing the market for folk art, and pushing the first modern American artists into the history books, including Stuart Davis, Jacob Lawrence, and Georgia O'Keefe. But until now she has been lost to history. This rich biography resurrects Halpert and illuminates the energetic, complex era when New York was becoming the center of the art world. The Miami Herald called it "a highly readable, bittersweet rediscovery of an art dealer who made a difference."