Eli Wilner

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Eli Wilner is the founder and CEO of Eli Wilner & Company, a New York City gallery that specializes in antique and hand crafted re-creations of European and American frames from the 15th century through the present. He is a leading frame dealer, restorer and collector, as well as an acknowledged and published authority on the art of framing. His publications include Antique American Frames: Identification and Price Guide written with Mervyn Kaufman and published by Avon, and The Gilded Edge published by Chronicle Books, the authoritative book about antique American frames [published in 2000 with a second edition released in 2011].

Eli Wilner has framed over 10,000 paintings, including a large Jacobo Bassano painting for The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and 27 paintings for the White House. Eli Wilner & Company is proud to have just completed the framing of Emmanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing the Delaware for The Metropolitan Museum of Art. For over 2 decades, Eli Wilner has loaned several hundred frames for the Old Master and 19th Century European painting sales at Sotheby’s, Christie’s, Bonhams and Doyle.

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