Founded in 1987, Hackett-Freedman Gallery specializes in finding and exhibiting important works by twentieth-century modern masters and select contemporary artists with a strong emphasis on postwar American and California abstract expressionist art. The gallery has developed a reputation for curating museum-quality exhibitions and is considered a leading source for superior works by Californian and American artists.

Hackett-Freedman exhibits top examples of American modernism and has mounted significant exhibitions of works by Milton Avery, Marsden Hartley, Hans Hofmann, Gaston Lachaise, Elie Nadelman, Max Weber, Joan Miró, and others. The gallery organizes bimonthly solo and group exhibitions featuring historic or current work by postwar masters including Richard Diebenkorn, Louise Nevelson, David Park, Manuel Neri, Frank Lobdell, Paul Wonner, Judith Rothschild, Gustavo Ramos Rivera, Wayne Thiebaud, Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, and others.