Gilbert S. Edelson

Qualifications and Career Profile

Gilbert S. Edelson concentrates his practice in the representation of clients in the visual arts field. He has represented collectors, dealers, artists, museums and other not-for-profit corporations in a broad spectrum of art matters including domestic and international transactions for the purchase, sale or consignment of works of art, problems of authenticity, artist-dealer relations, valuation, gifts and estate planning, Holocaust related claims, and taxes.

Associations and Committees

Mr. Edelson is Administrative Vice President and Counsel of the Art Dealers Association of America. He is a trustee of the New York Studio School and the Archives of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution. He has served on the boards of the International Foundation for Art Research, the American Federation of Art and the College Art Association. Mr. Edelson was a member of the advisory committee to the Department of State on the UNESCO Convention on the Illicit Transportation of Works of Art. Mr. Edelson is a former chairman of the Committee on Art Law of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

Lectures and Articles

Mr. Edelson lectures widely on the art market and matters involving art law.

Education

Mr. Edelson earned his undergraduate degree (B.S., 1949) from New York University and his law degree (LL.B., 1955) from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and an Editor of the Columbia Law Review.