THE TEAM

Hadley Powell

Founder & Principal

Hadley’s expertise spans from Old Master prints to Contemporary art. She started her career at Christie’s, New York as a specialist in the Prints & Multiples department where she researched and cataloged prints from Rembrandt to Rauschenberg. Subsequently in the Impressionist & Modern Art department, she worked on the high profile evening sales, where she advised clients buying and selling at auction and assisted in private collection management and fine art appraisals.

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hadley@powellfineartadvisory.com

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ABOUT HADLEY

Hadley received a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and a minor in Economics from Union College. She holds a Master’s degree in Modern Art, Connoisseurship and the History of the Art Market from Christie’s Education, New York. Her prize-winning thesis studied the impact of the 1913 Armory Show on George Bellows's Monhegan Island, Maine paintings.

She lives in Boston, Massachusetts and Northeast Harbor, Maine.

  • Nichols House, Board Member (2025-Present)

  • Board of Advisors, Development Committee, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2023-Present)

  • Patron Committee, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2023-Present)

  • Leadership Council Steering Committee, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum (2020-Present)

  • Chair, Museum Council, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2018-2020)

  • Board of Advisors, Development Committee, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2018-2020)

  • Board of Advisors, Marketing and Communications Committee, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2018-2020)

  • Trustee, Massachusetts State Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (2018-Present)

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AFFILIATIONS
CURATED FAVORITES
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN

Aries

FAVORITE HOTEL

Hotel II Pelicano, Porto Ercole, Tuscany

GO-TO COFFEE ORDER

Iced matcha latte, with almond milk

FAVORITE READ

The New Yorker 

FAVORITE MUSEUM

MFA Boston

SECRET TALENT

Backgammon

HIDDEN GEM

Jamaica Pond

FAVORITE QUOTE

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way—things I had no words for.”

— Georgia O’Keeffe

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