Eli Wilner & Company

Eli Wilner & Company is a New York City gallery that specializes in European and American frames from the 15th century through the present. The CEO, Eli Wilner, 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. Eli Wilner & Company has framed over paintings, including a large Jacobo Bassano painting for The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and 28 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 two 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. Since 1983, Eli Wilner & Company has published over 100 articles about the antique frame, and collaborated with curators from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Parrish Art Museum, National Academy Museum, the Columbus Museum of Art, and many more, in their exhibitions of frames.