William Secord always has a something special during the week of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in NYC. This year, over 150 animal-themed works (mostly dogs) from the Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge Collection are on view at his gallery. Sales from the exhibition benefit the organization founded by Mrs. Dodge in 1939, Saint Hubert’s Animal Welfare Center in Madison, New Jersey.
Mrs. Dodge is a legend in the purebred dog world. She founded the Morris and Essex Kennel Club in 1927, and bred and imported some of America’s most important English Cocker Spaniels, German Shepherds, Bloodhounds, Pointers, Setters and Schipperkes, among others. She is also the first woman to judge Best in Show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden. You can view the exhibition online. Here are some of my favorites:
The Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge Collection at William Secord Gallery runs until March 24, 2012.