In Making Gavin Brown a Partner, Barbara Gladstone Is Betting That You Can Get Big and Still Think Small

In 2011, as she was celebrating 30 years in business, Barbara Gladstone told the Wall Street Journal, “there’s a relationship between being an art dealer and raising a family. Being a parent, a mother, means that you’re responsible for helping someone develop to the best of their potential.” She was speaking from experience: she had three children when she opened her gallery at age 40 in 1980. As a gallerist, she had helped artists develop to the best of their potential,