Dorsey Waxter (b.1952 in Baltimore, MD) is a Partner at Van Doren Waxter, located in New York City’s Upper East Side. She is a past President of the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) from 2012-2015. Her career began as a gallery assistant at Nancy Hoffman Gallery in 1974. In 1977 she began work at the André Emmerich Gallery.  Over a period of 14 years she rose to Director contributing to the gallery’s specialization in New York color field and post-World War II abstraction. In 1991, she established Dorsey Waxter Fine Art, Inc., advising clients primarily in the secondary market and representing prominent estates. Ms. Waxter then became Director of Greenberg Van Doren Gallery in 1998—which became Van Doren Waxter in 2013. The gallery’s roster of estates and artists includes some of the most influential artists of the 20th and 21st centuries such as James Brooks, Richard Diebenkorn, Moira Dryer, Helen Frankenthaler, Ellsworth Kelly, John McLaughlin, Robert Motherwell Harvey Quaytman, Alan Shields, Frank Stella, Hedda Sterne, and Anne Truitt.