Howard S. Rose, started his career in the Antiquities business in 1971. Before taking over the Arte Primitivo gallery, Rose was the director of Harmer Rooke Galleries on 57th Street, for nearly 25 years, and more recently director of Greg Manning Galleries. Rose has authored over 125 auction catalogues, is a licensed and bonded New York auctioneer, is a full member of both the NADAOPA (National Association of Dealers in Ancient, Oriental and ?Primitive Art) and ATADA (Antique Tribal Art Dealers Association) and has performed hundreds of appraisals as well as advising the IRS and the NYC DEA on property evaluations.

Gallery director, Claudine Colmenar was assistant director of Greg Manning Galleries and worked closely with Rose previously.

The Arte Primitivo Gallery of Pre-Columbian Art and Books was originally founded in 1971 by William and Mildred Kaplan, dedicated to the needs of archaeologists, scholars, collectors, and students. The name and location of the gallery in midtown Manhattan were acquired by Rose, who renovated the premises and re-opened the gallery in early September 1996.   Source

Dr. Abner I. Weisman, an internationally known fertility specialist and clinical professor emeritus of obstetrics and gynecology at New York Medical College.

Dr. Weisman was the author of several books, including "You Too Can Have a Baby" (Liverlight, 1941) and the academic work "Spermatozoa and Sterility."

He founded the International Fertility Association and helped introduce in the United States a test for pregnancy using frog hormones.

He once estimated that he had delivered 20,000 babies. He was the gynecologist for several well-known celebrities, including Marilyn Monroe.

Dr. Weisman amassed a rare collection of pre-Colombian "medical sculptures" now at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Md. The collection includes figures from coastal Peru and western Mexico that purported to show the medical histories of ancient people.

During World War II he was a Public Health Service physician in North and South Dakota, where he worked with Sioux Indians. The experience generated a lifelong interest in the plight of Indians and in native and tribal art.

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Adeline Newman of Beverly Hills, California. The Newmans collected actively in the late 1960s and into the 1970s, when there was an enormous number of pieces coming into Los Angeles. Dr. Sidney and Adeline Newman, Los Angeles, before 1970. Dr. Newman was an important Pre-Columbian art collector and the photographer for Hasso von Winning's important book The Shaft Tomb Figures of West Mexico (1974). 

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Earl Stendahl (1887–1966) was a pioneering American art dealer who in 1911 founded the influential Stendahl Art Galleries in Los Angeles, initially focusing on California impressionists of the early 20th century such as Nicolai Fechin, Joseph Kleitsch, Edgar Payne, Guy Rose, and William Wendt. The gallery eventually expanded its scope to include works by European and Latin American modern artists such as Constantin Brâncuși, Marc Chagall, Lorser Feitelson, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Stendahl was a pioneer in the promotion of abstract art in California in the late 1920s. In 1939 he hosted one of only two non-museum exhibitions of Pablo Picasso's masterwork, Guernica, to benefit Spanish war orphans. 

Stendahl worked with significant collectors including George Gershwin, William Randolph Hearst, Vincent Price, Nelson Rockefeller, David O. Selznick, and Frank Lloyd Wright. During the mid-1930s, Diego Rivera's pre-Hispanic art collection inspired Stendahl to start working with pre-Columbian objects from the Americas. The first clients for ancient artifacts from Mexico and Central America were the Los Angeles collectors Louise and Walter Conrad Arensberg, who became friends with Stendahl as he assisted them in putting together one of the most significant private collections in North America. As evidenced in the archival materials, Stendahl traveled extensively throughout Latin America both for research purposes and in pursuit of pre-Hispanic objects for his clients. 

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Ronald Normandeau, after some years of gallery ownership in Westwood Village, established the Anthropos Gallery of Beverly Hills, California in October, 1976. Located at Wilshire and Camden, the gallery specialized in Ancient and Tribal sculpture from the Old as well as the New World: Ancient Egyptian Art & Antiquities, Pre-Columbian Art, and North American Indian and Eskimo Art.

During the past three decades, they have focused on the art of the western coastal regions of North America: the sculpture of ancient Mexico, the antique art of the Pacific Northwest Coast Native American, the art of the early California cultures, and the related Art of the Native American Southwest.

Normandeau has served as exclusive agent and curator for acquisition and de-acquisition of world-class private collections for many years, including the Proctor Stafford Collection (1988-1997), the first American Pre-Columbian art collection of Ancient West Mexican ceramics. A significant part of this collection was acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art during the 1980s, after a major exhibition during the 1970s.

Over the last few decades, Normandeau-Anthropos has contributed major works of ancient sculpture to noted museum shows. Many of these works have been published in top reference books, such as the great Princeton Art Museum Exhibition in 1995-‘96: The Olmec World: Ritual & Rulership.

Anthropos founder Normandeau was Director of Special Exhibitions at Chac Mool Gallery in West Hollywood from 1995 until 1997, and served as curator of a critically acclaimed Pre-Columbian Art exhibition there in 1996 (Sculpture of Ancient Mexico).

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Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art.  Artemis Gallery provides appraisal documentation that includes item/artist description, provenance and auction records for the artist, general assessment of authenticity, quality, condition and fair market price and replacement value. When evaluating archeological ceramics / pottery, the scientific technique of thermoluminescence (TL) is used to distinguish between genuine and fake antiquities. Artemis also offers USA-based TL Testing Services through its affiliate, Artemis Testing Lab, headed by Serge Fayeulle, PhD. Dr. Fayeulle's laboratory provides expert TL Testing / Analysis for pottery, whether core sampling is done in-house or by an agent of his designation. 

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Rod Rogers is an educator, collector, dealer and American Society of Appraisers certified appraiser, senior member, specializing in Pre-Columbian, African and Native American Art for nearly sixty years.

He holds advanced degrees in Ethnographic Art from both Columbia University and New York University and taught Studio Art and Art History for years at the College of Staten Island in New York. Later, he taught Pre-Columbian, African and American Indian Art Appraisal courses at New York University and retired from education in 1996. 

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Joaquin Blanco is a California based collector of archeological and ethnographic items from Mexico and Africa. He is also a collector of Latin American Painters and has loaned pieces to several West Coast institutions including the Pasadena Museum of Art. Additionally he has been a contributing researcher to several books and publications about the history and genealogy of colonial Mexico. 

Growing up on a farm in Pennsylvania, Jason Osborne was always naturally curious. From a young age, he began collecting and curating finds, from fossils to early glass bottles. As Jason grew older, his inquisitiveness grew into an assemblage of Pre Columbian, Oceanic, and tribal art as well as a collection of Cenozoic marine fossils. The study of the sciences, both ancient and modern, is a constant in Jason’s life. He has published peer-reviewed journal articles in the fields of neuroscience, geology, and paleontology.

By the means of SCUBA, Jason explored river systems and swamps along the Atlantic Coastal Plain. These expeditions led to a wealth of scientifically significant finds that now reside in museums along the eastern seaboard of the United States. Jason’s most noteworthy discoveries include a new genus of Oligocene whale and two new species of Miocene pinnipeds.

In addition to unearthing and donating extraordinary specimens, Jason has shared his skill and love for paleontological expeditions with the greater community. His work has been featured on media outlets such as National Geographic, Discovery Channel, NPR, Popular Science, Nature, and Science Magazine.

These contributions in addition to other considerable public engagements in science led to Jason being recognized and honored by President Barack Obama and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Jason received the White House Champion of Change award in 2013.

Naomi Lindstrom (1924-2014) was a collector of the purest sense. A longtime flight attendant for Pan Am, she traveled the world rubbing elbows with sheiks and presidents, all the while collecting what she loved along the way. What has been described as the most significant collection of world beads in the United States, international and ancient pieces. 

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