Eye of the Sixties

“[An] evocative portrait” of one of the most influential and enigmatic American art dealers of the 1960s (Barbara Rose, The New York Times ). In 1959, Richard Bellamy was a witty, poetry-loving beatnik on the fringe of the New York art world. By 1965, he was representing Mark di Suvero, had been the first to show Andy Warhol’s pop art, and had introduced the new genre of installation art. An eccentric art dealer and founder of the Green Gallery on Fifty-Seventh Street, Bellamy helped discover ma