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Travel south on Washington Street from the heart of Old Town Alexandria and you will come to the gallery of Sumpter Priddy III. The building has a large corner bay window filled with American art and antiques. Sumpter is a native Virginian, and he is a renowned Southern furniture scholar. He has a personal reference library of over four thousand books.
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There are three galleries in the building. One is known as the yellow gallery and is for formal pieces. The other gallery on the first floor is the folk gallery.
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The gallery focus is Southern furniture, but they are also branching out into more New England items. Sumpter travels to do only one outside show a year, the Philadelphia Antiques Show. Special shows are put on at the gallery, the last one was called simply "Southern".
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Sumpter
Priddy III, Inc.
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601 S. Washington Street
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Alexandria, Virginia 22314
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Phone: 703-299-0800
Fax: 703-299-9688
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Website: http://www.sumpterpriddy.com/
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