Martin Lawrence Galleries was founded in 1975 and operates 12 fine art galleries in the United States specializing in original paintings, sculpture and limited edition graphics.

Martin Lawrence has an substantial collection of artwork, all of
which is company owned, including works of art by
Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Sam Francis, and Keith Haring. Martin Lawrence Galleries is the publisher and representative for Erté, Robert Deyber

Robert Deyber

Robert Deyber is an American artist most known for visual interpretations of cliches, euphemisms and idioms from the English and other languages...

, Liudmila Kondakova, Felix Mas, Philippe Bertho, Kerry Hallam

Kerry Hallam

Kerry Hallam is a British impressionist artist who has produced approximately twelve thousand paintings and whose work is included in collections held by Brigitte Bardot and Björn Borg as well as decorating the permanent residence of Monaco's Ambassador to the United States. Hallam was trained in...

, and René Lalonde.

Martin Lawrence has also held many stores relating to pop art

Pop art

Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art...

 and decor. One of their more famous acquisitions was the store Think Big!

Think Big (store)

Think Big! was a retail store originally established in New York City in 1979. It was closed in 1994.-History:The small store was an a joint endeavor by two friends, an artist Phyllis Prinz and a business man Robert Malkin. The two, who had an affinity for collecting over-sized antique display...

. The store however was sold and soon disbanded to pay for Martin Lawrence Galleries' mounting debt. The Think Big! product line has now been rejuvenated by GreatBigStuff

GreatBigStuff

GreatBigStuff is a brand name and registered trademark belonging to GreatBigStuff.com. The brand name is associated with and describes a unique line of products that are oversized replicas of everyday items...

.

In the last 15 years, hundreds of works of art have been lent to museums around the world.
This includes the loan of works by: Picasso, Chagall, Magritte, Calder,
Warhol, Francis and other artists to institutions that include:

• Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
• Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT
• City Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
• Discovery Museum, Bridgeport Connecticut
• Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris
• Georges Pompidou Center, Paris
• Institut Valencia d'Art Museum (IVAM), Valencia, Spain
• Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
• Las Vegas Museum of Art
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
• Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)
• Louisiana Museum, Denmark
• Malmo Konsthall, Sweden
• Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Tokyo
• Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montreal
• Museé Royaux des Beaux Arts, Brussels
• Museo del Risorgimento, Rome
• Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
• Museu Picasso, Barcelona
• Nassau County Museum, New York
• National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
• National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
• Ogunquit Museum, Ogunquit, Maine
• Prefecture Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, Connecticut
• The Menil Collection, Houston
• University Art Museum/University of California at Berkeley
• Wadsworth Antheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
• Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamaguchi, Japan