Barbara Gladstone

Barbara Gladstone was an American art dealer and film producer. She was owner of Gladstone Gallery, a contemporary art gallery with locations in New York and Brussels.

Background

Barbara Levitt was born in Philadelphia on May 21, 1935. She began collecting in the 1970s, alongside a job teaching art history at Hofstra University.
She was married twice, to Elliot Regen and Leonard Gladstone ; both marriages ended in divorce. She had two sons, David and Richard Regen; her third son, Stuart Regen, died in 1998 at USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Career

Film production

Stuart Regen Visionaries Fund

In 2008, Gladstone initiated the formation of the Stuart Regen Visionaries Fund at the New Museum, established in honor of her late son the art dealer Stuart Regen. The gift is meant to support a series of public lectures and presentations by cultural visionaries and debuted in 2009 with choreographer Bill T. Jones. It has featured prominent international thinkers in the fields of art, architecture, design and contemporary culture. Past speakers have included Jimmy Wales, Alice Waters, Maya Lin, Hilton Als , and Fran Lebowitz .

Personal life and death

From 2005 until 2012, Gladstone maintained a residence at 165 Charles Street, a residential tower designed by Richard Meier. She later moved to a 19th-century townhouse at 344 West 22nd Street in Chelsea which sold for $13.1 million after her death.
Gladstone died from an apparent stroke on June 16, 2024, at a hospital in Paris; she had traveled to the city on a work trip. She was 89.