Meet our Curators
We welcome you to get in touch with our specialists. Our team of curators look forward to personally helping you build a meaningful collection.
Jonah Rosenberg
Head of Rare Books
Jonah Rosenberg joined Arader Galleries early in 2021 after five years as an antiquarian bookseller and a decade as a professor of art-history. He holds an A.B. in Classics from Brown and a D.Phil in Classical Archaeology from Oxford (St. John's College).
Please visit www.araderbooks.com to see our holdings of rare books.
jonah@araderbooks.com
1 (646) 693-4122
Alison Petretti
Curator, Drawings & Watercolors
Alison Petretti has worked at Arader Galleries, New York City, since 2000. She is a specialist in original works relating to natural history, travel, and discovery from the 16th century through the 19th century. She earned a master’s degree in art-history from Hunter College, City University of New York, with additional certificates from New York University and the University of London.
alisonpetretti@aradergalleries.com
+1(212)628-7625
Michael C. Foley
Director of Arader Galleries New York.
He specializes in 18th and 19th Century American and European works on paper, with an emphasis on cartography, natural history, exploration and historical subjects. His clients are collectors and museums throughout the United States and Europe. He speaks regularly on the life and work of John James Audubon. A lawyer licensed to practice in New York, he also serves as the firm's General Counsel.
michaelfoley@aradergalleries.com
+1(212)628-7625
Lori Cohen
Director of Arader Galleries Philadelphia.
Lori Cohen joined Arader Galleries in 1987 and was appointed Gallery Director in 1990. She is a specialist in 16th through 19th century works on paper, with a focus on natural history, travel and exploration, rare maps, and American paintings. Lori is a graduate of Bennington College.
Lori's clients include private collectors, major museums, and libraries around the world. In addition, she advises several corporate collections throughout the United States and Europe. Lori is on the board of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks and Historic Strawberry Mansion. She serves on several vetting committees and panels for museums and international antiques shows.
loricohen@msn.com
+1(215)735-8811
Taylor Rash
Auction Director
Taylor Rash has worked at Arader Galleries since 2014. He has a Bachelor’s of Art History from James Madison University and a Master’s of Art Business from Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York.
taylorrash@aradergalleries.com
+1(212)628-7625
Josephine Arader
Director of Arader Galleries, California.
Josephine is passionate about the tradition of Natural Historians throughout European and American History. She believes that there is a strong correlation between the Natural Historians of the past and our current understanding of and relationship with the Natural World. The watercolors, color plate books and cartographic works that were produced by natural historians from the 16th-19th Centuries can give us a poignant understanding of the times from which they originate as they bring the past into the present with vivid power.
Josephine sits on the board of The Natural History Institute, which provides leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the natural world.
She has acted as the Treasurer of the Antiques Dealers Association of California and is regularly called on to vet works on paper at Antique Shows and has served as a judge for botanical art shows. Her clients are a mix of private individuals and foundations.
josephine.arader@gmail.com
+1(707)225-4571
Walter Arader
Founder of Walter Arader Asian Art.
Walter's primary focus is the work of John James Audubon as well as Tibetan, Chinese, Indian, and Nepalese Buddhist art from the 8-18th centuries. Walter has dealt important works of art to institutions such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Rubin Museum of Art, The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, The Dallas Museum of Art, The Museum of Fine Art - Houston, Yale Art Galleries, numerous public and semi-private museums in mainland China, as well as to many of the most highly esteemed American, European, and Chinese private collections.
Walter holds a Masters in Tibetan and Himalayan studies from the University of Oxford. His thesis was guided by Dr. Ulrike Roesler, Lecturer in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies at the University of Oxford, and Jeff Watt, the founding curator of the Rubin Museum Art and Director of Himalayan Art Resources. Walter sits on the board of Himalayan Art Resources, the leading online educational resource for the study of Himalayan Art, and actively supports charities and scholarly institutions such as the Oxford Center for Buddhist Studies, Himalayan Art Resources, the Rubin Museum, and others.
walter.arader@gmail.com
+1(212)628-7625