ARTISTS’ FELLOWSHIP, INC.47 Fifth Avenue • New York, NY 10003-4679

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

As I reflect on the current state of the Fellowship, it is clear that ourcontinued success has been the result of the efforts of many people. I amastounded that several of our trustees and advisors have toiled fordecades in support of our mission. In addition we recently discoveredthat a large percentage of our members have maintained theircommitment for 15 or 20 years or more. I humbly thank all of you foryour generosity. You are an inspiration.

Our 153rd Annual Awards Dinner in October 2012 honored thelegendary Storm King Art Center and its Director, David Collens andPresident, John Stern in addition to the artist Knox Martin. Manymembers and friends came to celebrate and support the Fellowship. Somewere even fortunate enough to take home some art. The entire boardwould like to thank our sponsors Jack Richeson, Melissa Kaish, JonathanDorfman and Capital One Bank for their generous support. Our thanksalso go to Chairwoman Edye Rae Brown as well as Ira Goldberg andNaomi Campbell for all their efforts in the success of the Silent Auction.

Within a week after our dinner, Hurricane Sandy wreaked havocalong the East Coast. Thanks to the outreach of the board, theFellowship was included with a list of other organizations providingrelief to artists and we subsequently helped many who suffered from thedevastation. The generosity of members from across the United States aswell as our healthy endowment enabled us to provide support. Wecontinue to look for ways to spread the word to artists who need ourassistance and rely on our members to help us achieve this. At the sametime, we are dependent upon your donations as the means by which theFellowship can continue to provide help where it is needed most.

Our 154th Annual Awards Dinner will take place on September 10,2013 at the Manhattan Penthouse. Please look for your invitation andplan to join us as we honor artist William Bailey and the Yale UniversityArt Gallery. On behalf of the board, we all look forward to seeing youand celebrating our commitment to our community.

In Fellowship,

Wende CaporalePresident, the Artists’ Fellowship, Inc.

a message from the president

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2013Manhattan Penthouse80 Fifth Avenue (SW corner 5th Ave at 14th St.) New York, NY 10011

Our Artists’ Fellowship Annual Awards Dinner will again featurea Silent Auction including the work of artists Robert Baxter,David Levine, Donald Holden and Mara Sfara among a limitedgroup of selected artists. Invitations will follow in August butplease notify us if you need additional invites—anyone who isinterested in supporting the AF is welcome regardless of theirmembership status.

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newsletterThe Artists’ Fellowship is pleased to honor the

Yale University Art Gallery at our AnnualAwards Dinner on September 10. Last year

the newly renovated YUAG reopened to universalacclaim. Designed and led by Ennead Architects ofNew York, the end result is a unified, harmoniousstructure maintaining its long history by keeping itsthree architectural styles intact: a medieval castle, achapel and Louis Kahn’s modernist classic. Selected

galleries have been newly installed with extensive collections of Americanand European masters, modern and contemporary work, African, andancient American, Mediterranean and Asian art. A new departmentdedicated to Indo-Pacific art is installed in the Louis Kahn building tostunning effect. In the midst of this Herculean task, a separate effortbrought in 57,000 additional works to broaden and deepen its repre-sentation of the world’s cultures.

The Fellowship is pleased to welcome YUAG’s Director, artist andchief fundraiser Jock Reynolds, under whose stewardship this incrediblework has been done. Backed by the Board of Governors and YalePresident Richard Levin, he has quipped that the $135 million price tag“remedied 280 years of deferred maintenance.” By all accounts an ableadministrator, he is also a very able fundraiser. He has said that he enjoysit. “You’re giving [donors] an opportunity. You need to think: What wouldgive them pleasure? What would make them think they’d done some-thing significant?” Coming to this line of work as an artist first has givenReynolds a very unique view and appreciation of this vast and diversecollection. This is America’s oldest university art museum and, as of now,takes its place as the finest, most complete cultural collection of any uni-versity anywhere in the world. Robert Campbell of the Boston Globe

wrote about thegallery: “Yale(University ArtGallery) isworth keepingin mind as onemodel of get-ting just abouteverythingright.”

Best known for his paintings of commonhousehold objects (cups, bowls, jugs and thelike) arranged in utmost balance before

monochromatic walls, William Bailey paints all ofthese completely from his imagination. The same is

true for his enigmatic paintings of female nudes. Bailey insists that all hispaintings are abstract and does not attempt to present them as realistic depic-tions. Exquisitely rendered with silken surfaces and harmonious compositions,they are unique in their quietude and contemplative poignancy.

A student of Josef Albers at Yale, Bailey went on to become an assistantinstructor of drawing there. He has spent his entire career teaching at Yale,where he has been the Kingman Brewster Professor of Art Emeritus since1995. Over the years he has been aware that his work was often in sharp con-trast to the current trends, and yet his art has always been one of a singularpersonal vision. He has said of his painting: “It wasn’t read quickly because itwasn’t painted quickly, and the relationships didn’t reveal themselves easilybecause they weren’t arrived at easily. And it’s that complication I think thatgot into the work. The paintings that I know, that I admire like Piero, havethat quality, that silence.”

His many awards and honors include the Benjamin Altman Award inPainting by the National Academy of Design and an Honorary Doctor ofFine Arts from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He is an electedmember of the Accademico di Merito, Accademia di Bella Arti PietroVanucci, Perugia, the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Lettersand the National Academy of Design. Since 2000, he has been a member ofthe board of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.

Bailey has an extensive exhibition history and his work can be found innumerous private and public collections. The long list includes the Museumof Modern Art (NY), theHirshhorn Museum(Washington, DC), theMuseum of Fine Arts(Boston), and the NationalMuseum of American Art,Smithsonian Institution(Washington, DC). Goingstrong at almost 83, hismost recent solo show wasat the Betty CuninghamGallery in Chelsea last year.

W I L L I A M B A I L E YB E N J AM I N W E S T C L I N E D I N S TM EMO R I A L M E D A L

YA L E U N I V E R S I T Y A R T G A L L E R YG A R I M E L C H E R S M EMO R I A L M E D A L

AF 2013 MEDAL HONOREES

William Bailey, Red Wall, 2007, oil on linen, 50” x 60”

William Bailey

Jock Reynolds

Yale UniversityArt Gallery

Image courtesy of the artist and Betty Cuningham Gallery, New YorkPhoto © Elizabeth Felicella, 2012

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President Wende Caporale (seated, second from left), Daniel Greene, Rosemary Kove, Knox Martin, family and friends

Jeffrey J. Foxx and Hope Wurmfeld

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Peggy Kinstler, Michael Gormley, Daniel Greene

Rhoda Sherbell and Edith Rae Brown

Honoree Knox Martin and James Torres

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Bob Mueller, Joan Meyer, Kathy Anderson, Bob Pillsbury, Janet Lippman

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Sam D’Ambruoso of Middlebury, CT is sponsor-ing and instructing at the 13th Annual LandscapePainting Workshop in Amalfi, Italy, June 22 - 29 andthe 17th Annual Paint in Tuscany, October 20 - 27.Cornelia Seckel is an honorary Vice President forthe National Association of Women Artists: Womenof Vision and Empowering Women Artists since1889. She and Raymond J. Steiner mark thebeginning of publishing ART TIMES 30 years agowith the Summer issue. ART TIMES is in print quar-terly and online monthly. Max Ginsburg was fea-

tured in Artist’s Magazine in an article entitled “TheTheatre of What Is.” The California Art Club ishonoring him at their Gold Medal Exhibition as the“Out of State” artist. Judith Barcroft appeared in“FoodActs” at the Lion’s Theater in New York Cityin February. Her book cover designs grace TheCloning and Edie’s Story by Wisner Washam. ToniSilber-Delerive had a solo show of her food art atthe James Beard House. She also received The

President’s Award in the National Arts Club EAMShow. She is exhibiting at the Industrialism Show atthe Art Factory in Paterson, NJ. Charles Yoderexhibited works in group shows at the RJD Galleryin Sag Harbor, NY, the Southampton (NY) CulturalCenter, Gitana Rosa Gallery in Brooklyn, NY andthe Monmouth Museum in Lincroft, NJ. DeeShapiro was in two group shows: “Op+Pop-Experiments” by American Artists in Staatsgalerie,Stuttgart, Germany and “Paper, Mirror, Torn” at theMorris Gallery, NYC. The Westwoods NatureCenter in Geauga County, OH exhibited the lateFlorian Lawton’s “His Amish Legacy WithNature.” Proceeds from sales benefit HiramCollege’s Amish Heritage Center. Soonae Tarkexhibited at James Yarosh Associates Fine ArtGallery in Holmdel, NJ. Jack Faragasso’s book,The Early Photographs of Bettie Page: The Making ofan American Icon, will be released in late summerby Binary Press. Philip Pearlstein’s “People,Places, Things” was shown at the Museum of FineArts, St. Petersburg, FL Mar. 2 - June 16, 2013. Asolo show of his work was at the Betty CuninghamGallery from Feb. 21 - Mar. 30, 2013. In addition tobeing represented in group shows in Dublin andLondon, his work was on the cover of ARTnews,May 2013. Maria Chatzinakis traveled down the

Amazon on a riverboat and photographedwildlife, including pink dolphins, varieties ofbirds and fish for Dr. Bodner. Ilene Skeenjoined the Admission Committee of theSalmagundi Club in May. Her website bare-brush.com has its second “Brick & Mortar”Invitational Show in Oct. 2013 at theHighline Loft in New York City. She is alsoproducing a new musical, “AccommodatingKate,” based on the 1773 classic “SheStoops to Conquer” by Oliver Goldsmithfor the Village Light Opera Group. TomFlournoy comments “Got to admit, NewYork’s a sporting town—it’s always openseason here!” John Ross and ClaireRomano were featured at an exhibit atThe Old Print Gallery in Washington, DC.Takayo Noda had a solo show entitled“World of Print and Collage” at GalleryHakudotei from Mar. 25 - Apr. 12, 2013 inTokyo. Rhoda Sherbell was the honoredartist and guest speaker at The NationalAssociation of Women Artists’s 124thAnniversary Annual Meeting and Luncheonon May 9, 2013 in NYC. She gave a power-point talk and had an exhibition at theNAWA Gallery and Penthouse. She also

had a solo exhibition at the Faculty Gallery at theNational Academy, NYC. Oscar Magnan just pub-lished The Meaning of the Afterlife in the EtruscanTomb Painting of Tarquinia at the Ultimate Reality ofMeaning Symposium on Art at Scranton (PA)University. Francis Cunningham is having aCentury Master Exhibition at the CenturyAssociation from Oct. 2 - Nov. 20, 2013 in NYC.Annette Blaugrund, Ph.D. completed the exhibi-

tion and catalogue “Albert Bierstadt in New York &New England,” on view at the Thomas ColeNational Historic Site in Catskill, NY until Nov. 3,2013. It will then travel to the Mattatuck Museumin Waterbury, CT. For the new Minnesota ArtMuseum, she is writing and editing a catalogue ofhighlights from the Kierlin-Burrichter Collection ofEuropean and American Art. Christine Ivers wasawarded The David Wu & Elsie Jeck-Key MemorialAward at the Allied Artists of America National99th Annual Exhibition. She also received the RISDMuseum Award from the West Hartford ArtLeague and the CPS Award at the 2013 CT PastelSociety’s Members Exhibition. Roberta CarterClark has had her 1990 book How to Paint LivingPortraits republished by North Light Books withadditional color images. It is now available inChinese. Eleanor Jacobs continues to writehumorous essays for The Litchfield (CT) CountyTimes. Her topics have addressed what sells in thecurrent overheated art market. Barbara Allen isexhibiting at PAPA Gallery in Paducah, KY and isworking on a new series of paintings addressing themyth of extravagance. Roger Rossi isCorresponding Secretary for the Salmagundi Club,NYC. He is exhibiting at the Manitou Gallery inSanta Fe, NM. Robert Stark has large-scale paint-

“I am glad that an organization like theArtists’ Fellowship exists to help our artistsin their hour of need. We wish to conveyour thanks to everyone who gives their

time to do such fine, compassionate work.”

Philip Pearlstein, Model on Air Mattress with Mickey Mouse Blanket, 2012, oil on canvas, 60” x 48”, courtesy of the artist and Betty Cuningham Gallery, NY

Barbara Nessim, uncommissioned art, collage, pen and ink, watercolor, 4.8” x 6.7”

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ings on exhibit at the William J. Nealon FederalCourthouse in Scranton, PA and at SusquehannaStudio in Union Dale, PA. Sharon Sprung exhibit-ed at the O’Kane Gallery in Houston, TX and has asolo show at Gallery Henoch scheduled forSeptember, 2013. She also taught in Florence, Italyunder the auspices of the Art Students League,NYC. Janet Walsh will be joining Travel DynamicsInternational’s group show “Explore the GreatLakes” this summer. Marcia Raff created a 16 footsculpture which was installed in a new entrance tothe city of Moddin, Israel. She also exhibited hersculpture Dreidel Labyrinth in Austin (TX) City HallPeople’s Gallery for the year. Barbara Nessim hada solo retrospective titled “An Artful Life” at theVictoria and Albert Museum in London. BarbaraNessim: An Artful Life was published by Abrams.The New York Times featured her in a full-pagearticle about her career as an illustrator and com-puter artist pioneer. Marsha Massih had a soloshow of landscape and still life paintings at UlsterSavings Bank in Gardiner, NY which was reviewedin The New Paltz Times. Constance A. Carr had amajor invitational solo show at the First UnitedMethodist Church in Fort Collins, CO where sheexhibited landscapes one month and figures foranother month. Richard Sabbia has exhibited atthe Stamford Art Association and the GreenwichArts Council both in CT. Bruno Lucchesi has beencommissioned to do a life size monument of SaintPaul for an Orlando, FL church. He was bestowedwith honors for his lengthy membership from the

John Simon Guggenheim MemorialFoundation (50 yrs.) and the NationalAcademy, NYC (48 yrs.). DeborahWiniarski showed in “Seven,” theInternational Encaustic Conferencejuried show at the Truro (MA) Centerfor the Arts and in “Red” EncausticGroup Exhibition at A Gallery inProvincetown, MA. InstructorsExhibition: Int’l Encaustic Conference,The Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown,MA. Terry Brown continues teachingthe History of American Illustrationonline for The Art Department at AspenUniversity. Lois Dodd had a retrospec-tive show of paintings at the KemperMuseum of Art in Kansas City, MO,which traveled to the Portland (ME)Museum of Art, curated by BarbaraO’Brien, Director KMA. Jessica Daryl’sseries of new paintings, “CentennialTrees of Central Park,”was exhibited atthe Michael Schimmel Center for theArts, Pace University, NYC. EllenNathan Singer won the Old Print

Shop Graphics Award at the 2012 Audubon ArtistExhibition in New York City. Marc Mellonunveiled two busts at Indiana University; one ofOlympic diving coach Hobie Billingley and the sec-ond of the donor for whom Bart Kaufman Field isnamed. Lebron James received his 4th NBA MVPTrophy, a bronze provided yearly by the artist. TheNational Basketball Association commissioned anew bronze, the Twyman-Stokes Award, whichwas unveiled during the NBA Finals in June.Babette Bloch reports that 800 people attended

the dedication of her 16 foot high, 5000 lbs, stain-less steel “Vitruvian Man” sculpture in lateAugust 2012 at Enterprise Corporate Park inShelton, CT. Lori Putnam received the Award ofExcellence in the Oil Painters of America 22ndAnnual National Juried Exhibition, HonorableMention in The Portrait Society of America’sInternational Members’ Only Exhibition and aCertificate of Merit from the Salmagundi Club inNYC. Daniel Schwartz recently printed a 12page limited edition color catalogue of his paintingsentitled Daniel Bennett Schwartz—100 Works ofArt: 1956-2013. Kathy Anderson received theImpressionist Award of Excellence at the NationalOil Painters of America show. She will be part of atwo-person exhibit at Tree’s Place Gallery inOrleans, Cape Cod, MA. Jane Bloodgood-Abrams had a solo exhibition at the Christopher-Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA in June and willshow her landscapes at the Harrison Gallery,Williamstown, MA in August. The Players Club,NYC, dedicated the Everett Raymond KinstlerRoom with twelve of Kinstler’s portraits of film andstage personalities. Sculpture by Richard Heinrichis on continuous view at the following locations:Reading Public Art Museum, PA; Kouros Gallery,Ridgefield, CT; The Hebrew Home in Riverdale,NY; Grounds for Sculpture, NJ and Pyramid HillSculpture Park, Hamilton, OH. Judith Murrayexhibited in “The Annual: 2013” at the NationalAcademy Museum in NYC. She also was in “8Women / 8 Stories” at the Sundaram (continued)

Babette Bloch, Vitruvian Man, stainless steel, 16’

“I want to extend my utmost appreciation for the recent assistanceprovided by the Artists’ Fellowship.

It was through your amazing support that Iwas able to turn an unfortunate situation

into a manageable one.”

Florian K. Lawton, American Pastime, 22” x 38”, watercolor; collection of The White House

Bruno Lucchesi, Saint Paul Sitting Writing at Table, bronze,lifesize, 2013

Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong. Blane de St. Croix isnow represented by Fredericks & Freiser Gallery inNew York City, where she will be included in anexhibit in June. Her new website is:www.blanedestcroix.com. Harry Ahn participatedin the 1st Biennale Internazionale RTE di Palermo inSicily, Italy, and received the Gordan Hall MemorialAward at the 85th Regional Exhibition at theMuskegon (MI) Museum of Art. Martha Bloomwill teach a new adult class at the Art Students

League and “New art and drama” and “Art andyoga” classes at Silvermine (CT) School of Art.Carey Boone Nelson exhibited her bronze sculp-tures in the Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art ClubOpen Annual Exhibit at the National Arts Club,NYC in October, 2012 and a second bronze in theCLWAC Members’ Exhibit at the Salmagundi Club,NYC in March, 2013. Carmiah Frank participatedin two exhibitions at the GEBBO Gallery in Tel Avivand showed in “Salon d’Automne” in Paris inOctober, 2012. He also received a sculpture awardfrom the Southeastern Graphics Council in SouthCarolina for his bronze “First Step” in January,2013. Naima Rauam has a new studio/gallerythrough the summer of 2013, at Pier 17 at SouthStreet Seaport, NYC. Richard Titus has writtenand illustrated a short story which he is posting onhis website at Richard-titus.com. To view online,visit the website and click on “quoxxel.” JimmyWright will be a Visiting Artist for the Ox-Bow’sDrawing Marathon July 21-27, 2013. Thirty two ofhis drawings were featured by Corbett vs.Dempsey in May at the New Art DealersAssociation Art Fair, NYC. Jane Timken was in a

group show at PDX Contemporary Art from June4 - 29, 2013 in Portland, OR. Al Barker has recentinvitations to exhibit in new venues in DE, PA andOH and participated in plein-air events in Marylandand Massachusetts. He has also won awards atCompetitive Miniature Exhibitions in Ohio andMaryland. Robin Solvang exhibited at theSalmagundi Club’s NYC Black & White Exhibition,Floral Exhibition and New Members’ Exhibition.She also exhibited at Delaware Valley Art AllianceSmall Works, in Narrowsburg, NY. Dr. Arnold J.Davis announced that The Bellarmine Museum ofArt, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT’s Director and

Chief Curator, Jill Deupi, J.D, Ph.D., has selectedold master paintings and drawings for an exhibitionentitled, “The Collectors’ Cabinet: Renaissance andBaroque Masterworks from the Arnold and SeenaDavis Collection,” opening Oct. 11, 2013 - Jan. 10,2014. The Detroit Institute of Arts, MI acquired sixetchings by Linda Adato for their permanent col-lection. She participated in the New York Society ofEtchers 3rd National Exhibition of Intaglio Prints atthe National Arts Club, NYC in May/June, 2013.

She also received the Silver Medal of Honor atAudubon Artist Online Exhibition in 2012. HenryKoehler had his 73rd solo exhibition, entitled“Artichoke Variations,” at Ann Madonia inSouthampton, NY in July, 2013. Lynne Mayocole isexhibiting in a two-person show with Sam Wienerentitled “Here Today, Where Tomorrow” at theCentury Club, Sept. 24, 2013 in NYC where all areinvited. She is also organizing a panel “The State ofArtists’ Estates” for Artists Talk on Art at NY Law onOct. 18, 2013 in New York City. “This is a reallyimportant issue for us all!” Rosalee O. Isaly hadan exhibit of her impressions of Morocco at TheAtlantic Galleries in October, 2012, NYC. She wasawarded a Silver Medal for pastel in the SpringMembers’ Exhibition at the National Arts Club.Robert Palevitz has been invited to present hispastel figure paintings at “Les Pastellistes DeFrance” exhibition in Feytiat, France. AllenBlagden had works juried into two exhibitions;“Art and the Animal” in June, 2013 at theBennington (VT) Center for the Arts in addition toSociety of Animal Artists at the same venue in Oct.2013. He will also have a solo exhibition in 2014 atthe Wild Center in Tupper Lake, NY. RichardWhitney’s memorial portrait of the eminent Dr.Saumil Merchant was unveiled at the MassachusettsEye and Ear Infirmary, the second of three portraitscommissioned by this affiliate of Harvard University.Timothy J. Clark’s solo exhibition of watercolorsat the Laguna Art Museum, CA that ran from Nov.2012 - Jan. 2013 was extended through February,due to popular demand. Jeffrey Mitchell had hiswork “Mexicaly Rose” selected for permanentshowing in The Emory University Hospital inAtlanta, GA. Silvia Franco exhibited a print from

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“Through your generosity you havesucceeded in reminding me once again of the enduring faith that I have held in the restorative power of my connection to the arts…that sacrifices made in the pursuit of a life close to the arts, however

humble, have been worth the cost.”

Richard Whitney, Dr. Nelson Kiang, 44” x 34”, oil on canvas,collection of Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

Janet Lippman, Hollyhocke & Green Bench - Giverny, 26”x 21”,silkscreen, private collection

T. J. Clark, The Red Bicycle, 14” x 21”, watercolor on paper,private collection

her “Waves” series of etchings and aquatints in TheNational Arts Club Roundtable show. WendeCaporale received the Great American PastelAward at the Pastel Society of America’s 40thAnnual and the ACOPAL Award for Realism at theAllied Artists’ of America Exhibition and was elect-ed to their membership. Her work will be at theButler Institute of American Art in Youngstown,OH in July/Aug. Jack Lestrade continues to paintin his “Lapeze” Studio-Gallery in Montgesty, locat-ed in the Quercy region in Southwest France,which is open year-round by appointment. JulianHyman remains active in The Print Club of NewYork and has continued his support of severalnature conservations. Mara Sfara has had or ishaving the following solo shows of her art in2012/13. March/April 2012, sculpture at QCC ArtGallery in Bayside, NY; June through Sept. 2012,sculpture at the Mattatuck Museum of Art inWaterbury, CT. June/July paintings and sculptures atthe Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River, NY;paintings at the Town and County Club of Hartford,CT in July. Thomas V. Nash painted the portrait ofDr. George Wirth, Pastor of First PresbyterianChurch in Atlanta, GA. He was among the artistswho participated in the “Face-Off” portraitdemonstration at the recent Art of the PortraitConference in Atlanta, GA. Betsy Ashton just hadan unveiling of her full-length portrait of U.S ArmyCol. Thomas F. Pike, Jr. at the National Arts Club,where his father, Thomas Pike, Sr. was just electedclub president. She also completed a portrait of

former ambassador Philip Lader that will be hung inthe U.S. Embassy in London. Sandra Murzyn’spainting “Patient Prince” has been selected to beincluded in the Oil Painters of America Salon Showat the Crooked Tree Arts Gallery in Petosky, MI.Karen Loew exhibited in the Coast Guard ArtProgram (COGAP) Collection 2013 “Cleaning upHurricane Sandy.” Her monotype “I’m WatchingYou” won two show awards before being sold atthe Salmagundi Club Spring Auction 2013. It wascreated at one of the very popular monotype par-ties there and printed on their antique press. AnnRosow-Lucchesi had her unique “Happy Hearts”bas-relief series installed on the cardiac floors atCrouse Hospital in Syracuse, NY. KayWalkingstick showed her newest paintings at theJane Kelly Gallery in SoHo from April 12 - May 14,2013 in New York City that was favorablyreviewed in The Wall Street Journal and The NewYork Times. John M. Angelini had two worksincluded in “The Miniature Artists of America” atthe Academy of Art in Moscow. Anne AdamsRobertson Massie had a joint exhibition with herdaughter, Anne Harris Massie, entitled “Florilegia”at Les Yeux Du Monde, in Charlottesville, VA.Loryn Brazier recently painted the First Lady ofVirginia. Brazier Gallery is preparing for their sec-ond annual “Plein Air Richmond,” which willinclude 45 nationally known painters, June 10-15,2013. Janet Lippmann’s “Beauty x 3, Part 2” willtake place at the Larchmont Public Library in Oct.

2013, featuring work by three generations ofartists: Janet Lippmann, Anny and Kara. JoyceZeller won the Anna Hyatt Huntington HorseHead Best in Show award from the CatherineLorillard Wolf Art Club Members’ Show. MichaelShane Neal completed the official portraits ofCharles Rivkin, American Ambassador to Franceand Luis Fortuno, the Governor of Puerto Rico.Rhoda Yanow exhibited her “Potpourri of Pastels”at the Butler Institue of American Art inYoungstown, OH. The portraiture of DanielGreene was featured in an article in The Wall

Street Journal on April 22, 2013 along with inter-views with the nation’s leading portrait artists. Hisprize-winning work “Bid 262” was reproduced inthe Spring issue of Pastelagram. Robert Seyfferthad a solo exhibit at the William Holman Gallery inNYC. He is also teaching a Plein Air Workshop atRock Gardens Inn in Sebasco, ME in Aug. 2013.Yves Masson of Old Saybrook, CT exhibited bothportraits and landscapes in local art guilds and gal-leries. Knox Martin’s public mural “The WhalingWall” is on the exterior wall of the Caja Agraria inBarranquilla, Colombia. It is his intention to raiseinternational attention to the plight of the (cont’d)

“I just wanted to send you a note of mysincerest gratitude. I cannot tell you justhow much your support helped in this

difficult time. I am very humbled and honored.”

Robert Seyffert, Pollock and his 1950 Olds 88, East Hampton circa 1955, 25” x 30”, oil on canvas, 2013, courtesy William Holman Gallery

Michael Shane Neal, Ambassador Charles Rivkin, American Ambassador to France, 40” x 32”, oil on canvas, 2013,

collection of the American Embassy, Paris

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Artists’ Fellowship Officers: Wende Caporale,President; Charles Yoder, Vice President; Pam Singleton,Treasurer; Joyce Zeller, Corresponding Secretary; PriscillaMcCarthy, Recording Secretary; Peggy Kinstler, HistorianTrustees: Babette Bloch ex officio; Edith Rae Brown;Terry Brown; Fran Dembitzer, MD; Franklin Feldman;Ira Goldberg; Richard Heinrich; Morton Kaish; David Beynon Pena; Tim Newton; Claudia Seymour;Sharon SprungAdvisory Panel: Everett Raymond Kinstler, MiltonEsterow, Philip Pearlstein, Anthony Kaufmann

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whales at selected sitesthroughout the world. He also exhibit-ed at the Sam and Adele GoldenGallery, New Berlin, NY. CarolynJundzilo-Comer was honored to becommissioned to create a posthumouspainting of her brother, John, for theAkron, OH Domestic Relations Court.Fanny Sanin was commissioned to doa mural for the new Coliseum buildingat the University of Antioquia inMedellin, Colombia. She also participat-ed in the International Pinta Art Fair inLondon. Claudia Seymour is retiringfrom her position as President of theSalmagundi Club after six years ofprogress and growth. She is lookingforward to much more time for herpainting in oil and pastel, as well aswriting articles and perhaps a book.Joan O’Connor’s “Marcel ProustCharacter Etchings” were in a soloexhibition at the Center for Fiction,NYC. Her work was also awarded

“Four Winds Fine Art Purchase Awardin Etching” from SAGA’s show atDelind Gallery in Milwaukee, WI andreceived “Recognition of Excellence”from the 3rd NY Society of EtchersExhibition of Intaglio Prints. BarbaraStein is teaching and exhibited a paint-ing in the Manhasset (NY) ArtAssociation’s Spring Show. SharonWay-Howard had a watercoloraccepted into the American Society ofMarine Artists’ “Cruising SouthernWaters” exhibition at the QuinlanVisual Arts Center in Gainesville, GAfrom June 13 - Aug. 17, 2013 andanother watercolor received an awardat the National Art League NationalExhibition in Douglaston, NY. LeondaFroehlich Finke’s over life-size bronzesculpture “Women in the Sun Seated”is in an exhibition called “Ossining in3D.” The sculpture is beautifullyinstalled outdoors at the entrance ofthe Ossining Public Library, Ossining,NY from May - Oct. 2013.

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Daniel GreeneConstance CarrTimothy J. ClarkLoring W. ColemanCarolyn Jundzilo-ComerJames F. CooperArnold DavisElaine Gaskell deSpoelberchJoseph M. DunnEugenia du PontRay G. EllisFranklin FeldmanJane FoldsCarmiah FrankKatherine FreygangLouise FucciKyle Nelson GalanteAida GarrityJack GarverLeonid GervitsGaile Snow GibbsIra GoldbergMira GoldbergKathleen GrayJane HaherGeorge A. HambrechtJonathan HardingKathy HayesRichard A. Heinrich

Donald HoldenMarianne HovivianRosalee O. IsalyChristine IversJeanine C. JacksonEleanor JacobsSophia JamesLaurie JohnsonMorton KaishMelissa Kaish & Jonathan

DorfmanMiriam KatzJoseph KeifferEverett Raymond KinstlerS. Chandler KissellJean KroeberFlorian LawtonGerson LeiberMelvin LeipzigLeslie Lillien LevyFloarea LiceicaJanet Gurian LippmannStephen Lo MonacoPatricia Van Rondel LowLonnie MasonAnne Adams Robertson

MassieMarsha MassihJan MatthiasSusan MatzLynne MayocoleJoseph McGlynnMary McGlynnMarc Richard MellonJosephine MerckHolly E. MetzgerNancy Dyer MittonJohn MorehouseJudith MurraySandra MurzynCarey Boone NelsonBarbara NessimAnne & William NewcombTim NewtonThomas NicholasPat OliphantGwen PierPortraits, Inc.

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IN MEMORYCT Society of Portrait ArtistsJeanine C. Jackson, MadelineS. Moriarty, Nancy Stember In memory of Ariane BeigneuxNancy ReillyIn memory of Samuel BrownCorice Canton Arman,Juliette & Chancey Pelletier,George T. WeinIn memory of Morton SimpsonBabette Bloch & Marc MellonIn memory of Luise KaishMelissa Kaish & Jonathan DorfmanIn memory of Luise Kaish

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The 153rd anniversary of the Artists’Fellowship, Inc. began Wednesdaymorning the 24th of September with

early preparations for the Annual AwardsDinner. A small gathering assembled at 80 FifthAvenue to unload vehicles and transport sundryobjects to the 17th floor where the ManhattanPenthouse is located. Wende Caporale, BabetteBloch, Edith Rae Brown, Naomi Campbell,Susanne Carbin and Charlie Yoder movedtables, unpacked easels, placed art for the silentauction, ran extension cords, installed small spotlights and adjusted ceiling spots. After a lastminute inspection of the place settings, the crewbroke for a late lunch and prepared themselvesfor the main event.

At 6:30pm the festive cocktail reception wasin full swing. Greeting arriving guests at thedoor were Naomi Campbell and SusanneCarbin along with Melba Pagan and AninaPerez, two veteran helpers of our annual din-ners. Martin Gerwirtz did a masterful job atthe piano as waiters circulated with a titillatingvariety of delicious hors d’oeuvres. The crowdwas very lively and loud with laughter as oldfriends greeted one another and introducedthemselves to new friends.

Seated at a table overlooking a spectacularview of lower Manhattan, artist honoree KnoxMartin received friends, colleagues and formerstudents. John Stern, President and CEO, andDavid Collens, Director and Curator of StormKing Art Center, moved through the crowdgreeting the guests. Storm King Art Center,John Stern and David Collens were being hon-ored with the Gari Melchers Memorial Award.Also in attendance were a number of past hon-orees: Everett Raymond Kinstler, MortonKaish, Daniel Greene, Dick Cunningham,

Bruno Lucchesi, Clare Romano and JohnRoss, Pam Singleton, and leaders from organiza-tions we have honored, including the ArtStudents League, Salmagundi Club, theNational Arts Club and the National Academy,in addition to long-time supporters Mohammedand Bonnie Yousuf, Dorothy and Guy Wiggins,Eloise and John Morehouse, Robert Pillsbury,Rhoda Sherbell and Dr. Manny Epstein, andKathy Hayes. Every officer and trustee of theArtists’ Fellowship was present for this significantoccasion and made for a handsome and elegantgroup. Many who have served as formerPresidents were there as well: Marc Mellon,Everett Raymond Kinstler and Babette Bloch.

A little after 7:30pm the doors to the diningroom were opened and the assembled crowd of140 moved to their tables. The lively to and frocontinued until President Wende Caporale madethe opening statements. The sumptuous choicesof roast chicken and pan fried salmon were widelycommented upon while bottles of fine white andred wines circulated. The mood was festive, con-vivial and fun for everyone involved.

The award ceremony portion of the eveningbegan with the presentation of a plaque toBabette Bloch by Wende Caporale as a heartfeltexpression of the appreciation of the Fellowship’sBoard of Trustees. Babette’s husband MarcMellon, President ex officio, and Vice PresidentCharles Yoder both spoke of her long and dedi-cated service to the Artists’ Fellowship. Babette’semotional response further made clear to all thelevel of her passion and focus on the continuedmission of the Fellowship in its efforts to alleviatethe suffering of our fellow artists.

To kick off the award presentations, IraGoldberg, Executive Director of the ArtStudents League and long-time board memberof the Fellowship, introduced honoree KnoxMartin with an inspiring history of his life and60 year art career. So laudatory was his preamblethat Knox’s first words were “And I also drinkDos Equis.” This reference to a current ad forthe popular beer was received at first with hesi-tant laughter, but as the crowd began to get thejoke, the laughter spread quickly and loudly. Hisacceptance of the Benjamin West ClinedinstMemorial Award was heartfelt and poetic.Richard Heinrich, sculptor and board member

of the Fellowship, was next to the podium as heintroduced the honorees for the Gari MelchersMemorial Award: John Stern, President, andDavid Collens, Director and Curator of StormKing Art Center. Their thorough and movingaccount of the history of this world-famoussculpture park in upstate New York, and the Sternfamily’s involvement in its continued support anddevelopment, were warmly received.

Our Silent Auction, coordinated by TrusteeIra Goldberg and facilitated by NaomiCampbell, included work by Will Barnet, BillBehnken, Babette Bloch, Martha Bloom, RickBrosen, Naomi Campbell, Bruce Dorfman,Leonid Gervits, Morton Kaish, Greg Kreutzand Thomas Torak. The spirited bidding periodended precisely at 9pm with a flurry of activity.When the dust settled, all the art had been soldand the generosity of the guests in attendancehelped fill the coffers for the Fellowship. In thetrue spirit of the Fellowship, all revenues weremade possible through the artists’ extremelygenerous donations of 100% of all sales.

The evening ended with coffee and dessertas lingering groups said their goodbyes and afew fortunate guests waited while their newlypurchased artworks were wrapped.

This was the third year that the Artists’Fellowship held their successful Annual AwardsDinner at the Manhattan Penthouse. Our heart-felt thanks go to our sponsors, Jack Richesonand Capital One Bank for their help in the success of our dinner.

We hope you will join us again and forthose of you who have not had the pleasure,please consider attending this wonderful eventto support this outstanding organization. Weare proud of what the Fellowship contributes tothe art community and this is our collectiveopportunity to celebrate.

AF 153rd Annual Awards Dinner Celebration 2012 Honoring

Knox Martin and Storm King Art Center

Ira Goldberg, Wende Caporale and Honoree Knox Martin

Honoree John Stern of Storm King Art Center, President WendeCaporale and Honoree David R. Collens, Director and Curator

of Storm King Art Center