The story
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers was founded in New York in 1990 (and incorporated in 1992) by Sharon Helgason Gallagher (B.A., Yale University; M.A. Columbia University), who had previously worked as rights director and managing editor at Abbeville Press. It started out as a partnership between Gallagher and Daniel Power, with an office supplied by Parkett, but Power left fairly soon afterwards and Gallagher moved the company to new quarters. Gallagher remains the president and publisher of the firm she created with the goal of bringing international art books to North American readers. In 2011, Gallagher was one of 30 women leaders and artists honored at a gala at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, by ArtTable, an American association of professional women in the arts.
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