NEW YORK—The Art Dealers Association of America is known as the most exclusive organization in the trade, and its annual fair at the Park Avenue Armory in New York has established itself as the premier event of its kind. This year’s edition, which runs from February 21 to 25, marks the Art Show’s 20th anniversary, and its roster of 70 dealers will be offering the broad range of works that the fair has become famous for over the past two decades.

“This breadth of material allows both new and seasoned art collectors alike the unique experience of viewing historical works alongside contemporary pieces that drive today’s market,” says ADAA president Roland Augustine, a partner in the contemporary art gallery Luhring Augustine. Tanya Bonakdar Gallery will be presenting a solo exhibition of the works of the contemporary landscape photographer Olafur Eliasson, embodying the recent trend of one-artist shows at fairs. Pace Wildenstein will focus on Richard Tuttle with a selection of mixed-media and pigment works made in 1999, and Ameringer & Yohe will mount a tribute to the late dealer André Emmerich, a founding member of the ADAA, by combining works of artists Emmerich championed with photographs of those artists taken by the dealer himself.

Photography will be well-represented at the Art Show. New York dealer Hans P. Kraus, Jr., a 19th-century specialist, says he is “bringing early landscape photographs to complement the exhibition ‘In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet’ at the National Gallery of Art and early photographs of nudes to coincide with the retrospective ‘Gustave Courbet’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.” One of the two new exhibitors this year, Janet Borden of New York, also a photography dealer, will be holding a one-person show of Tina Barney, known for her elegant yet intimate portraits.

Lawrence Markey, the other new exhibitor, spent 20 years in business in New York before returning to his hometown of San Antonio. He still represents many artists from his New York days and will have works by Robert Moskowitz, Susan Frecon, Ernst Caramelle and Paul Feeley, among others. “I’m thrilled to be there,” says Markey, who will be the only Texas dealer at the fair. “I joined the ADAA about seven years ago, so the fair is a natural thing for me to do. It’s as great a group of galleries as you can see, and gives you the opportunity to connect eye to eye with a lot of people.”