The Georgetown Galleries

The Georgetown Galleries on Book Hill is an association of art galleries clustered along upper Wisconsin Avenue in Georgetown’s Book Hill neighborhood, where the concentration of the established commercial galleries has made the upper Wisconsin Avenue corridor one of Washington’s most significant gallery destinations for the collector, the art professional, and the art enthusiast. The Book Hill gallery district occupies the upper Georgetown commercial stretch between P Street and R Street on Wisconsin Avenue, in the neighborhood that takes its name from the used book dealers and the antiquarian book shops that once defined the commercial character before the art galleries established the current gallery district identity.

The galleries on Book Hill collectively represent the full range of the fine art market’s commercial format: the established gallery that represents the roster of the represented artists and that presents the regular solo and the group exhibitions that advance the artists’ careers; the antiquarian and the specialty dealer who handles the secondary market work in the specific period or the medium; and the design and decorative arts gallery that addresses the intersection of the fine art and the applied arts that the contemporary design market encompasses. The Georgetown collector who visits the Book Hill gallery district has the opportunity to engage with the current exhibition program across multiple galleries in the single neighborhood destination.

The Book Hill gallery district’s concentration on upper Wisconsin Avenue reflects the Georgetown neighborhood’s character as the home of the Washington professional community that has historically valued the visual arts, the collection, and the cultivated domestic environment that the Georgetown row house provides for the display of the significant personal collection. The Georgetown collector who lives in the upper Wisconsin Avenue residential neighborhood above the commercial gallery district has the significant convenience of the neighborhood gallery destination for the regular gallery visit and the art acquisition.

The Georgetown Galleries on Book Hill are open Tuesday through Saturday and by appointment for the art consultation. The Book Hill gallery district on upper Wisconsin Avenue between P Street and R Street provides the Georgetown arts community with the concentrated gallery destination where the multiple established galleries present the simultaneous exhibition programs that the Georgetown collector and the arts visitor can engage with in the single neighborhood commercial destination.

The Georgetown arts audience that visits the Book Hill galleries on the upper Wisconsin Avenue corridor encounters the full range of the commercial gallery’s curatorial approach: the contemporary art gallery that represents the living artist, the antiquarian and the decorative arts dealer, and the specialty gallery whose program focuses on the specific period or the medium that the dealer’s expertise defines. The Georgetown collector who visits the Book Hill galleries regularly builds the gallery relationship that the informed collecting requires for the art acquisition and the collection development. The galleries are open Tuesday through Saturday and by appointment.