Allan Frumkin

Allan Frumkin (1927–2002) was an American art dealer with galleries in Chicago and New York City in the second half of the 20th century.

Life and career Frumkin was born in Chicago in 1927. He attended public schools and graduated from the University of Chicago. He studied the sociology of architecture briefly at Cornell University and The New School for Social Research in New York City. The New York gallery was renamed Frumkin/Adams in 1988.

Legacy The Allan Frumkin Gallery records are housed at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.

A professorship "to provide high-level interdisciplinary scholarship on the connections between visual arts and society" was established at the University of Chicago in 2005, through a $3 million gift from Frumkin's family. The faculty chair is named the Allan and Jean Frumkin Professorship in the Visual Arts in the Committee on Social Thought.