The Mary Martin Gallery of Fine Art extends a warm welcome to you and invites you to enjoy the works of highly accomplished artists who are nationally recognized for excellence in oils, acrylics, mixed media, glass, wood, clay, and bronze. Mary Martin Gallery is located on the south side of Broad Street which is the "Gallery Row" for Charleston and just off Broad for ML GALLERY.
Both galleries feature a wonderful collection of original art from notable and acclaimed award winning contemporary American and international artists Dedicated to bringing excellent art from America and around the world, the artists are chosen with great care. Many comment that these galleries are among the most interesting of galleries they have visited anywhere and make a special point of visiting every time they are in Charleston.
Mary Martin, A Gallery of Fine Art is housed in a stone building with a long history of it's own. Built by Otto Witte, the building served as the Exchange Bank and Trust for many years. The building retains the original bank vault and safe. From an important banking center in America to an exciting gallery row, Broad Street has a unique history you will hear while on either a walking tour or a carriage tour in Charleston. Hidden in recesses known only to Mary Martin and some employees is a hidden teller cage with the bookkeepers handwriting on the wall from the 1800's. Trap doors lead to a basement with the brick arches and long ago tunnels that led to other banks that lined Broad Street so that money could be safely moved. Many of the buildings on Broad Street have had occasional cannon balls found as late as the 1990's in the basements that had entered through the roofs. ML GALLERY is also housed in a stone building and has an even older history that the Broad Street location as many bank buildings on Broad were rebuilt in 1891 after fires in the earlier part of the century. ML Gallery is located at 132 East Bay Street, slightly north of Broad.
Mary Martin Gallery located at 39 Broad Street and ML GALLERY located at 132 East Bay Street are in the heart of historic Charleston. The Galleries are within easy walking distance to virtually all of the history this beautiful city has to offer. Specifically, the Mary Martin Gallery is between Church and State streets; more generally between King and East Bay streets. and ML GALLERY is slightly north of Broad beside the Old Exchange Building and Provost Dungeon at the foot of Broad Street.
Charleston is fast becoming a destination art market and well worth trips to Charleston for the art alone not to mention the general ambience of this historic city, the recreation, the restaurants, and the romantic flavor. Charleston has risen to number 6 in desirable art destination cities of mid size in the United States. And best of all, the galleries are all walkable from any of many hotels, Inns, and B & B's. While this is a great family town, it is also a wonderful couple's town.
The Galleries are open every day of the week and by appointment. We hope that by visiting our gallery, your time in historic Charleston will be greatly enhanced. Welcome. We look forward to meeting you and having you be part of our collector family.
Mary and the Staff at Mary Martin Gallery of Fine Art.
Gallery Artists
Santiago Perez
Jerry Georgeff
... the artist and myself have bridged the gap between us. Without words, communication has echoed through time. The artist has conveyed meaning and depth through my appreciation of the work of art creating a new experience in my life. Joseph Miller
Fletcher Crossman
Steve Sizelove
Barbara McCann
An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men. Vincent Van Gogh
Jean-Claude Gaugy
Douglass Freed
Jim Pittman
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life" - Pablo Picasso
Randall LaGro
"In some cases, art is a recording of history. Art has the power to evoke powerful memories." Mary Martin
Norman Cable
Cary Henrie
Barbara Dave
"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way. Things I had no words for." Georgia O'Keeffe
Gwen Fox
Gloria Coker
Gilles Payette
"I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly.'" Vincent Van Gogh
Alison Dearborn
Denette Schweikert
Scott Peck
"The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting." Vincent van Gogh
Don Quade
Densaburou Oku
Tim Miller
"When awork lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman." Jean de La Bruyere, French writer, 1645-1696
Robin Daniels
John Sherman
Art Valero
"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all." Michelangelo
Chuck Savoie
Ed Klink
Kathleen Earthrowl
... because of the complexity of art, or rather of the human souls who take art for a language, all classification runs the risk of being futile." Rodin
Ronald Addlestone
David Lotton
Bob Ichter
“In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
John Daso
Gregory Beck
Barbara Westwood
Richard Pankratz
"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art." Leonardo daVinci
William Brian Hibbard
Pat Kramer
Arleta Pech
“There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
Chad Awalt
Ron Artman
Martin Eichinger
Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don’t know what to say about what I paint, really. Balthus
David Datwyler
Corey Scott Fisher
Jason Antol
"What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race." Amedeo Modigliani
Downe Burns
Alessandro Casson
Philippe Guillerm
Art is "A human activity having for its purpose the transmission of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen." Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist, 1828-1910
Cheryl Anne Lorance
Michael Downs - Portrait Commissions
Jerry Rhodes
The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and ironically, the more real. Lucian Freud
Mariya Zvonkovich
Mike Ring
Benoit Averly
A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing. William Dobell
Jan Jacque
Michael Sugarman
Sydney Lynch
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye.. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul. Edvard Munch
John Noffsinger
... the artist and myself have bridged the gap between us. Without words, communication has echoef through time. The artist has conveyed meaning and depth through my appreciation of the work of art creating a new experience in my life. Joseph Miller
Jami Kunkle
Trish Weeks
Alena Beldova
For over thirty years, Mary Martin has travelled across the globe exploring her lifelong passion for fine art and artistic expressions. During those years, Mary cultivated many lifelong personal friendships with internationally recognized Master Artists that have filled her personal collection with works of unique and stunning beauty. After returning from her travels, the haunting images of the Spanish moss that swayed in the sultry breezes of the historic centurion oaks of Mary’s beloved Charleston called her home to the historic city that ignited her passion for art during her youth.
After settling into her new community, Mary soon realized, that while Charleston offered many incredible galleries that offered a wide spectrum of works from many accomplished local artists, there was still something missing that could help the Charleston Art Community grow to a prominent national destination for those with a serious passion for art.
Within a month, Mary found a beautiful downtown location that was the perfect site for a fine art gallery with an international flare. Located in the heart of Charleston’s historic French quarter, on 39 Broad Street in a historic stone building that still contains the original vault that echoes of the thriving eighteenth century banking industry of the antebellum era, the Mary Martin Gallery of Fine Art has truly become a “Destination” gallery for art collectors both locally and nationally.
With over thirty Master artists, hand selected by Mary for their national recognition, unique talent, and the consistent and ever increasing value of their pieces, the Mary Martin Gallery offers an exceptional experience that equals that of the internationally known galleries from New Yorkto Los Angeles and beyond.
To view the works currently available at the gallery, to learn more or to schedule a private tour, call us at 843-723-0303 or visit us at the historic 39 Broad Street in Gallery Row. View our artists’ work at www.marymartinart.com. Email Mary at marymartin@marymartinart.com.
Our offerings range from realistic to abstract, from linear expressionism to intuitive. In addition, we have sculpture of all types, water fountains, glass, wood, and jewelry - wearable art. This is a collection of art the likes of which you will have not seen anywhere else.
We are located within Gallery Row, which is within the old historic French Quarter, historic Broad Street between Church and State, between City Hall and the Exchange Building, between Rainbow Row (around the corner on East Bay) and the old (still in use) Post Office where the Sweetgrass basket weavers sit. If you can see the white steeple of St. Michael's you are very close.
Hours 10:00am-6:00pm on Monday-Saturday 12:00pm-5:00pm on Sunday Located on Broad between Church and State in the Gallery Row district
Mary Martin GALLERY and ML GALLERY Galleries of Fine Art 39 Broad Street and 132 East Bay Street Charleston, SC 29401 Gallery Row on Historic Broad Street and the East Bay and Broad (slightly north of Broad) 843-723-0303 and 843-577-1010
