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in 1988, a year before his death, Wilder spoke of the early years of his gallery saying that "In those days, art was all about art and artists. Now it's all about institutions and money" and commentated that one of the reasons for the closure of his gallery was that "Big name artists were getting too expensive".
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was the subject of the inaugural show at the gallery. A new exhibition was shown for every month of the 14 years that Wilder's gallery was open. In the initial years of the gallery Wilder was selling $ 2 million of art annually (equivalent to $ 17,523,445 in 2023) and later stated that there were
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described him as "a genteel man of impeccable manners with a hippie bent" and that "...those who knew him best, particularly his artists, came away impressed with his modesty, frankness, humor and the purity of his passion for art. He seemed blessed with an ability to find gifted artists and home in
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