In recent news, the Merrin Gallery was featured on The New York Observer’s list of veteran NYC galleries. Among several notorious galleries of midtown Manhattan, the Merrin Gallery on 724 Fifth Avenue was the only one specializing in ancient art:
The [Merrin] gallery dates back nearly 40 years and, pretty much, if you were a museum and you wanted a classical Greek or Roman statue, pre-Columbian relic or even a mummy during that period, you bought it here from Edward Merrin. Client museums included the Met, Brooklyn, the Getty and the Louvre. In the past decade, hot-button repatriation issues have quieted (though far from ended) collecting in this market, but the gallery, now run by Samuel Merrin, still has among the richer assortments of antiquities of any dealer in the area. Ask to see the secret cabinet behind the revolving wall.
