About
Walter Arader is the Director of Arader Galleries, the world’s leading dealer of sixteen through nineteenth century American and European natural history, antiquarian maps, works on paper, and the work of John James Audubon. Arader Galleries was founded in 1968 and has seven locations across the nation.
Mr. Arader has also been dealing in museum quality works of Buddhist and Hindu art from the Himalayas, China, and India dating from the first to eighteenth centuries since 2009. He has sold important works of art to institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts - Houston, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, numerous museums across China, and to many of the most highly esteemed private collections in America, Europe, and Asia.
Mr. Arader has extensive experience advising both museums and collectors. He has worked closely with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts - Houston, Harvard Art Museums, Yale University Art Gallery, Stanford University Libraries, and many others.
Mr. Arader received a Masters (MPhil) from the University of Oxford in 2013 and his PhD (DPhil) is ABD. He is a member of the Art and Antique Dealers League of America (AADLA).