The East Side Gallery was founded in New York City by Mark Freeman in 1961. Located on 37th Street, the gallery showed a variety of painters, sculptors, and graphic artists. Artists exhibited at the gallery include Jan Gary, Willam D. Gorman, Luis Lujan, Gail Paradise, Maria Szeni, Linda Cross, and the gallery founder himself, Mark Freeman. The gallery was open seven days a week until it closed in 1970.