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Dow Art Galleries

Fort Worth · Established 1935

Ninety-one years
of bringing paintings back.

Fort Worth's oldest art gallery. Three generations on Camp Bowie, restoring oil paintings, antique frames, works on paper and photographs — and framing the things you'd rather not trust to anyone else.

Free estimates and consultations. Fully insured.

The Gold Cloth by Carl J. D. Nordell — oil on canvas portrait of a woman in blue holding gold fabric
Carl J. D. Nordell (American, b. 1885), The Gold Cloth. Oil on canvas mounted on Masonite, 30" × 25". Currently available in the gallery.
1935Established
3rdGeneration
48 yrsGreg Dow at the bench
A+BBB accredited since 2009

What we do

Restoration, framing and appraisal — under one roof.

The same level of service and workmanship whether your piece is worth fifty dollars or five thousand. Most people who walk in are carrying something that belonged to someone they loved.

Art & Frame Restoration

Damage from time, smoke, water and neglect, undone carefully — and reversibly where it should be.

  • Oil paintings on canvas, board and panel
  • Antique and gilded frame repair
  • Works on paper
  • Photographs, back to the 1890s
  • Maps, documents and heirlooms

Custom Picture Framing

Built one at a time for the piece in front of us, not pulled from a catalogue of corner samples.

  • Fine custom framing
  • Shadow boxes and objects
  • Conservation mounting and glazing
  • Reframing to suit a room

Appraisals & Estate Art

What a thing actually is, and what it's actually worth — for insurance, for probate, or for your own peace of mind.

  • Written appraisals
  • Early American and early Texas art
  • We buy and sell estate art
  • Consultations, free

The fastest way to start

Send us a photograph of the piece.

You don't need to carry a painting across town to find out whether it can be saved. Photograph it — front, back, and any damage — and Greg will tell you what it needs and roughly what it costs.

Email your photos

Since 1935

The oldest gallery in Fort Worth, still run by the family that started it.

Dow Art Galleries opened in 1935 and has been on Camp Bowie ever since — through the war, through the Cultural District growing up around it, through three generations of the same family. Greg Dow has been doing this work for more than forty-eight years.

You'll get the same level of service and workmanship whether your art is worth $50 or $5,000.

A good deal of what comes through the door isn't valuable to anyone but the person carrying it. A grandmother's portrait. A wedding photograph that got wet. A frame that came off the wall. It gets the same bench, the same hands and the same care as anything else.

Spring landscape watercolour, 1967, by Fort Worth modernist Bror Alexander Utter
Bror Alexander Utter (1913–1993), Spring landscape, 1967. Watercolour. Utter spent his whole life in Fort Worth and was one of the four founders of the Fort Worth Circle; his work is in the Amon Carter's collection, a mile up the road.

Come by

3330 Camp Bowie Boulevard.

In the Cultural District, a few minutes from the Kimbell and the Amon Carter. Park out front. No appointment needed for an estimate.

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Hours

Monday – Friday 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Saturday 9:00 am – 3:00 pm Sunday Closed
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Fully insured. Free estimates and consultations on every piece, whatever it turns out to be worth.