Arader Galleries · Saint Helena, California
Antique maps, botanical and natural history prints, ethnographic works and paintings, in our gallery on Main Street in the Napa Valley.
Since 1972
The Arader family founded Arader Galleries in 1972, and it began with maps: the antique charts and atlases that recorded how the world was discovered. The maps led to the voyages that made them, and the voyages to the artists who sailed on them.
More than fifty years later, Arader Galleries holds one of the world's largest privately held collections of natural history art, alongside rare maps and atlases, botanicals and paintings. Our Saint Helena gallery, directed by Josephine Arader, brings that collection to the Napa Valley.
The age of discovery
From the sixteenth century on, ships left Europe to chart the New World. Aboard sailed artists and naturalists, sent to record what no European had seen before: coastlines and rivers, unknown plants, birds and animals, and the people who lived there.
Their maps, drawings and engravings became the first picture of the Americas. Arader Galleries is where those works are found today: the maps that traced the coasts, the botanical plates, the natural history studies and the ethnographic portraits that came home from the edge of the known world.
The collections
Each collection has its own story. Start with the one that speaks to you.
More than 10,000 botanical works, the largest inventory in America.
Audubon, Gould and the naturalists who described the world's animals for the first time.
Charts and atlases from the age of discovery to the shaping of California.
Portraits and scenes of the peoples the explorers met.
Original works, from nineteenth-century California to the Yosemite of today.
Current and recent shows at the Saint Helena gallery.
In the gallery now
A few of the works you can see in Saint Helena this season.
Only a small part of our inventory is online. Many more works are in the gallery in Saint Helena.
Ask JosephineVisit the gallery
Our gallery is on Main Street in Saint Helena, in the heart of the Napa Valley. Maps, botanicals, natural history and paintings hang side by side, and the walls change as new works arrive.
Josephine Arader directs the gallery. She is always happy to take you through the collection, or to bring out works that are not on display.
Speak with Josephine
Josephine Arader directs our Saint Helena gallery. Tell her what you are looking for (an artist, a subject, a place, a wall to fill) and she will search the collection for you.
Visit the gallery
Arader Galleries
1380 Main Street
Saint Helena, CA 94574
Hours
Monday – Friday: 9 am to 5 pm
Saturday – Sunday: 11 am to 5 pm
