The Louis Alexander Gallery was founded by Louis Alexander Cohn in the Lenox Hill neighborhood of New York, New York. Paul Cummings served as the gallery's co-director in the early 1960s. The dates of the gallery's existence are unknown. In 1962 the gallery held a large exhibition, Recent American Drawings, which included artwork from Willem de Kooning, Milton Avery, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, and many others. Additionally, the gallery held solo shows for Leo Rabkin (1962), Alfred Copley (1962), Charles DuBack (1962), Ross Coates (1963), Athos Zacharias (1963), and William Giles (1962).