Five Decades of Photography
at the Museum of Fine Arts
July-Sepember 2015
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Director's Welcome
Dear Friends,
We continue to spotlight our
impressive collection during our
50th anniversary with exhibitions of
photography, Japanese woodblock
prints, and drawings. Everyone
is discovering or rediscovering
unforgettable works.
Five Decades of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts,
featuring The Dandrew-Drapkin Collection, includes
approximately 200 images, our largest exhibition in any
medium to date. Our early leaders were prescient in
recognizing the importance of photography, at a time
when many museums did not view it as an art form. We
got a head start and acquired images by many illustrious
photographers in the early 1970s, when our support
group, the Friends of Photography, was also formed.
Gail Phares, President of The Margaret Acheson Stuart Society,
presents the group’s historic check to Treasurer of the Board
Wayne (Skipp) Fraser (far left) and MFA Director Kent Lydecker at
the final general meeting of the season on Thursday, May 21, in
the Marly Room. The Stuart Society was later able to add $2,500
to the gift, making the grand total $715,500 for 2014-1015.
The collection has grown dramatically over the years,
thanks to generous donors. The recent gifts from
Chitranee and Dr. Robert L. Drapkin and Ludmila and
Bruce Dandrew have put our photography collection
on the map. We how have one of the premier such
collections in the southeast.
You can also see gems in two other media in our
second-floor Works on Paper Gallery. On view now are
fascinating Japanese woodblock prints, to be followed
by some of our finest drawings. Both were among the
first gifts to the MFA. Many have only rarely been
shown, and some are having their MFA debut. You will
find new favorites in these choice exhibitions.
You can see in the photograph on this page that The
Margaret Acheson Stuart Society made history in 20142015 and gave the Museum a donation of $713,000,
the largest ever. We would not be where we are today
without the support, commitment, and volunteer
service of The Stuart Society. We are especially grateful
this year to President Gail Phares, her event and
committee chairs, and indeed to the entire membership
for this extraordinary anniversary gift.
The Collectors Circle is celebrating its 20th anniversary
and for the first time, enjoyed a sold-out gala on April
24. The members voted to add an atmospheric painting
by American artist John Leslie Breck, reproduced on the
back cover, to the collection. But you have to come to
the Museum to see it in person. It is well worth the trip.
Children let loose, using a car as a canvas, at the Eighth Annual
Painting in the Park on Sunday, April 26. This event attracted
more than 900 people, the largest ever. It was presented by
the MFA and Local Buds Artisan Collective and sponsored in
part by Kane’s Furniture and Keep St. Petersburg Local.
So are our summer concerts presented by the Marly
Music Society. Escape the heat and hear these talented
musicians. I guarantee that art, music, and a wealth
of public programs and special events will keep you
returning for more. Join the celebration.
On the cover:
Sincerely,
Louis-Emile Durandelle (French, 1839-1917)
Stonemasons, The Paris Opera (about 1867)
Albumen print
Gift of Ludmila and Bruce Dandrew from The Ludmila
Dandrew and Chitranee Drapkin Collection
MFA Photographs: Thomas U. Gessler
Kent Lydecker
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CURRENT | UPCOMING | EXHIBITIONS
Five Decades of
Photography at the
Museum of Fine Arts,
featuring The DandrewDrapkin Collection
Eikoh Hosoe (Japanese, born 1933)
Man and Woman (1959-1960)
Gelatin silver print
Gift of Carol A. Upham
Through Sunday, October 4
The MFA continues its 50th anniversary celebration with
its most expansive survey of photography to date. The
collection has grown to approximately 17,000 images, making
it the largest and one of the most respected in the Southeast.
Approximately 200 works are on view in this exhibition, curated
by Hazel and William Hough Chief Curator Jennifer Hardin,
who has worked tirelessly to enhance these holdings. Many
were gifts from Ludmila and Bruce Dandrew and Chitranee and
Dr. Robert L. Drapkin, whose donations between 2009 and 2012
elevated the collection to an entirely new level.
The photographers represented read like a “Who’s Who” in the
art form: Henry Fox Talbot, Édouard Baldus, Alvin Langdon
Coburn, Julia Margaret Cameron, Margaret Bourke-White,
Berenice Abbott, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Edward
Steichen, Brassaï, Lewis Hine, Walker Evans, Henri CartierBresson, André Kértesz, Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams,
Minor White, Ilse Bing, Paul Strand, Aaron Siskind, Robert
Frank, Ruth Bernhard, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Clarence John
Laughlin, Richard Avedon, Jerry Uelsmann, Diane Arbus, Garry
Winogrand, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Kenro Izu. The list could
go on and on.
The images extend from the formative days of the medium in the
mid-nineteenth century to the early twenty-first. They encompass
fine art, photojournalism, portraits, breathtaking landscapes, and
recent experimentation. It reveals why photography is one of our
most vibrant and popular art forms. Dr. Hardin has written that
The Ludmila Dandrew and Chitranee Drapkin Collection is “a
visual history of the modern era.”
All known photographic media are on display, including a
rare image, View of the Boulevards of Paris (1843), by William
Henry Fox Talbot; salt prints; daguerreotypes; ambrotypes; and
tintypes. Among these early works are portraits of showman
P.T. Barnum; tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt; Russian composer
Modest Mussorgsky with a young woman on his knee; the
young, dashing poet John Greenleaf Whittier; and author Henry
James. There is also a fascinating tintype of a male torso (about
1998) by contemporary photographer Jayne Hinds Bidaut, who
specializes in this older process and whose work has been
collected by our foremost museums.
The twentieth-century portraits are unforgettable. They
encompass Man Ray’s portrait of Jean Cocteau (1924), one of
the first multimedia artists; Arnold Newman’s of Surrealist Max
Ernst (1942); Lee Miller’s of sculptor Isamu Noguchi in his studio
(1946); and Richard Avedon’s of Marian Anderson on the occasion
of her Metropolitan Opera debut (1955). Ms. Anderson, at 57, was
the first African American to sing at the Met. Her artistic power
radiates from this rare print of her in the midst of song.
André Kértesz (American, born Hungary, 1894-1985)
Satiric Dancer, Paris (1926)
Gelatin silver print
Museum Purchase with funds from NEA and FACF grants
Five Decades of Photography will take visitors on a journey
through time and around the globe. On view are Antonio
Beato’s albumen prints of Egypt and its antiquities, Alvin
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Langdon Coburn’s atmospheric photographs of early twentiethcentury London, nineteenth- and twentieth-century views of
Paris, and classic images of New York by such major figures as
Berenice Abbott, Lewis Hine, and Garry Winogrand.
studied with the noted photographer and influential educator
Henry Holmes Smith, as did Jerry Uelsmann who taught at
the University of Florida for most of his career. Mr. DuBois
began forming the collection in the early 1970s shortly after
the Museum opened to the public in 1965. Even before 1970,
he organized a number of photography exhibitions, including
one devoted to Paul Strand. Many of the early acquisitions
were made possible by purchase grants from the National
Endowment for the Arts and the Fine Arts Council of Florida. At
that time, most museums did not consider photography an art
form worthy of being collected.
India, the Near East, the Holy Land, and North Africa captured
the attention of photojournalists from an early date, and there
are signature photographs of the American West by Carleton
Watkins and Edward Curtis.
The great Ansel Adams is represented by important
photographs, including Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National
Park (about 1940). Adams wanted to support the MFA’s efforts to
establish a photography collection and donated three images in
1972, which helped set the high standard for the initiative.
In addition to the Drapkins and Dandrews, others have helped
transform these stellar holdings over the years. Carol A. Upham
contacted Mr. DuBois early on, became the MFA’s Founding
President of the Friends of Photography and later President of
the Board, and donated some of the Museum’s most significant
photographs. Similarly, William Knight Zewadski, the Terry P.
Loebel Family, and others have contributed valuable images.
The twenty-first century photographs are by such gifted artists
as Carrie Mae Weems, a 2013 recipient of the MacArthur
Foundation “genius grant”; William Wegman, known for his
large-scale images of theatrical Weimaraners, often in costume;
Dianora Niccolini, celebrated for her male nudes; and Linda
Connor, who has explored the exotic and fantastic around the
world.
The collection took a giant step forward with the recent gifts
of approximately 15,000 photographs from Ludmila and Bruce
Dandrew and Chitranee and Dr. Robert L. Drapkin. The
Ludmila Dandrew and Chitranee Drapkin Collection contains
almost all known photographic media, from salt prints and
daguerreotypes of the 1840s and 1850s to gelatin silver prints
from the mid-twentieth century. The photography collection is
now one of the MFA’s gems; its stature only continues to grow.
The photography collection is a crowning achievement of
the Museum of Fine Arts and of the discerning donors who
strove for excellence. Five Decades of Photography is the perfect
anniversary gift to the community.
The Ludmila Dandrew and
Chitranee Drapkin Collection
The gifts of more than 15,000 images from Ludmila and
Bruce Dandrew and Chitranee and Dr. Robert L. Drapkin
were nothing less than historic in the life of the MFA. The
photographs were originally collected by the Drapkins, longtime
Museum friends who have been named two of America’s top
100 collectors by Art & Antiques magazine. They have also
given rare photographic equipment, pre-Hispanic pottery of
the Southwest, pre-Columbian objects, and other works to the
MFA. Dr. Drapkin began collecting photography in 1975 while
conducting research at the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in
New York.
Save the Date:
Friday, October 2
A Celebration of the MFA’s 50th Anniversary and the Closing
Weekend of Five Decades of Photography at the Museum of Fine
Arts, featuring The Dandrew-Drapkin Collection
Refreshments, Music, Interesting People
Contribute to the purchase of a new photograph for the
collection.
After moving to Clearwater, the Dandrews met the Drapkins
and ultimately acquired a large portion of their photography
collection, with the goal of giving the images to the Museum.
They made large donations in 2009 and 2012. The Drapkins
made a similarly generous gift of photographs in 2010. Both
couples wanted to keep the collection intact and to make
it available to the public, including students, teachers, and
scholars, for exhibitions, research, classes, and publications.
Photography at the MFA
The MFA has been a leader in advancing the medium.
Photography was a hobby of Museum Founder Margaret
Acheson Stuart (1896-1980), and a darkroom was constructed
for her in the original building. The MFA’s longtime
photographer Thomas Gessler still uses some of her lighting
equipment.
Lewis Hine (American, 1874-1940)
Spinner (1938)
Gelatin silver print
Gift of the Friends of Photography
Mrs. Stuart and then director Lee Malone supported the goals
of former curator and assistant director Alan DuBois, who
earned his MFA in photography from Indiana University. He
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Images of the Floating
World and Beyond:
Japanese Woodblock Prints
this time, and Japanese prints adopted Western perspective and
themes. Japanese also began to be pictured in Western dress.
In turn, Japanese prints reached Europe and were collected
by and influenced such French artists as Claude Monet, Edgar
Degas, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Édouard Manet, and Vincent
van Gogh, who called the Impressionists “the Japanese of
France.” Western artists admired not only formal elements in
these works, but also the Japanese treatment of landscape.
Through Sunday, August 16
During the Meiji Period, artists paid tribute to Japanese
landmarks like Mount Fuji and the heroism of warriors. These
scenes could be quite violent. The supernatural also played a
large role in the country and its art. Ghosts and demons are part
of a unified cosmology, and nature has a prominent spiritual
dimension. At the end of the Meiji period, Japan emerged as a
world power.
The country experienced a print revival at the beginning of the
twentieth century with shin-hanga (new prints). This continued
traditional ukiyo-e themes and the workshop system, in which
artists collaborated with carvers, printers, and publishers.
At the same time, a different art movement, sōsaku-hanga
(creative prints), emerged. Inspired by modern, international
currents, these artists remained the sole creators of their prints.
Their works range from modern interpretations of traditional
approaches and subjects to the completely abstract.
Ando Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797-1858)
Naruto Whirlpools, Awa Province (1855, ninth month)
from the series Views of the Famous Places in
Sixty-Odd Provinces (1853-1856)
Color woodblock print
Gift of the Estate of Consuelo F. Bodmer
Japanese prints were last shown as a group at the MFA
during the 40th anniversary year in 2005, and the majority of
the more than 40 works in this new exhibition are on view
for the first time. One of the world’s great artistic traditions,
Japanese prints are known for their technical accomplishment,
superlative design, and sheer beauty. The selections in this
show extend from the late eighteenth century to an example
from the twenty-first. Director Emeritus Dr. John E. Schloder
is the guest curator with Stephanie Chill, M.A.
Ukiyo-e, or “images of the Floating World,” depict hedonistic
pleasures in ancient Japan – the world of geishas, kabuki
actors, and sumo wrestlers. Woodblock prints of the
eighteenth to nineteenth centuries by such celebrated artists as
Utamaro, Hokusai, Hiroshige, and Yoshitoshi set the stage.
Utagawa Kunisada as Ichiyosai Toyokuni (Japanese, 1786-1865)
Beauty Makinoe (about 1843-1853)
Color woodblock print
Museum Purchase
With Japan’s opening to the West in 1854, Western style began
to influence the country’s art and culture, reflected in prints
of the Meiji Period (1868-1912). The arts blossomed during
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Of special note is a portfolio, The Modern Japanese Print (1962),
compiled by the legendary American writer James Michener,
who lived in Asia for many years. It contains 10 prints along with
text by Mr. Michener, who championed contemporary Japanese
works, as well as twentieth-century American art. The author is
probably best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning Tales of the
South Pacific, which inspired the popular Broadway musical and
film, South Pacific. The portfolio is opened to Sadao Watanabe’s
powerful Listening (1960), a color stencil print.
Japanese prints continue to attract artists around the world.
Images of the Floating World and Beyond features a compelling
color image (1990) by Japanese-American photographer Patrick
Nagatani and Yoshitoshi’s Ghosts (2004), a color woodblock print
by Scottish artist Paul Binnie, who studied in Japan. In the latter,
a young man sports a large tattoo inspired by Yoshitoshi’s Mount
Yoshino Midnight Moon (1886), also part of the exhibition. The
past is ever close to the present in this fascinating exhibition.
Japanese Prints at the MFA
Japanese prints have a long history at the Museum of Fine Arts.
They were among the first gifts to the MFA and are some of the
most recent donations for the 50th anniversary. Horace Jayne, the
initial Advisory Curator, gave 14 prints in 1963, two years before
the Museum opened to the public. Col. David Hester donated 54
Japanese prints in 1967, and Irwin and Marcia Hersey gave 43 more
modern works over the years, including the Michener portfolio.
Léon Augustin Lhermitte (French, 1844-1925)
Women Washing in a Stream (about 1900)
Pastel on paper
Gift of The Margaret Acheson Stuart Society
in memory of Dr. Grover Austin
major American artist Robert Henri wrote in The Art Spirit that
“your drawing should be an expression of your spiritual sight”
and “a line expresses your pride, fear and hope.”
Other discerning donors have also made major contributions to
these holdings. Images of the Floating World and Beyond reminds
us that the seeds of what would become a comprehensive
collection of world art were planted at the very beginning.
These superlative drawings from the collection mirror Henri’s
high standards. Many are portraits and one by John Sloan, a
colleague and friend of Henri, is a self-portrait (1935). Others
include a woman on a horse by fellow American George Bellows,
European Modernist Max Beckmann’s more formal portrait, and
an intimate family scene by the Catalan-American Pierre Daura.
Drawing:
The Foundation of Art
Some are studies such as the Draped Flying Female Figure,
Crowning a Female Head (about 1880) by the French muralist
Georges Clairin or the large-scale, Modernist Study for
Composition with Still Life (1923) by Fernand Léger. There are
stunning pastels like Women Washing in a Stream (about 1900)
by Léon Augustin Lhermitte, who conveyed the beauty of the
French countryside and the dignity of those who lived there.
Saturday, August 22-Sunday, November 29
Drawing is an intimate media, as it brings us close to the
movement of the artist’s hand and the creative process. The
The exhibition explores not only various media and realms
of purpose and finish, but also techniques, as in the unusual
approach of Philip Leslie Hale. He created his Study for “Lady
in Black” (around 1910) with myriad, fine vertical lines, rather
than contour and shading.
The most recent works are Fallout: Beauty Lost and Found
(Hair Doodle 01.05), 2005, by Babs Reingold, who lives in
St. Petersburg and the New York area, and Pan (Devil up a Tree),
2010, by St. Petersburg artist Carol Dameron. Both were gifts of
the artists, with Ms. Dameron’s in honor of Director Emeritus
Dr. John E. Schloder.
This is the first exhibition ever focusing exclusively on the
MFA’s collection of drawings, which range from spontaneous
sketches to more complete compositions. Most have been rarely
shown and some are being displayed for the first time. Like the
other exhibitions during the MFA’s 50th anniversary, Drawing:
The Foundation of Art brings to light the many treasures in the
collection.
Georges Clairin (French, 1843-1919)
Draped Flying Female Figure, Crowning a Female Head (possibly
a study for murals at the Paris Opera), about 1880
Black and white chalks on gray wove paper
Museum Purchase with funds provided by Dr. John E.
Schloder in honor of Dr. Jennifer Hardin
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Impact of Annual Giving 2015
Connecting the Community
through Art
The officers of the Executive Committee of the Board of
Trustees were introduced at the Annual Membership Meeting
on Monday, May 4. They are (left to right): Chairman Mark T.
Mahaffey, Vice Chairman Cathy Collins, and Treasurer Wayne
(Skipp) Fraser. Not pictured is Secretary Clark Mason.
Museum Store
The Museum is deeply grateful for your continued
support. Your contributions to Annual Giving will
support more than 200 programs, exhibitions,
lectures, and events in 2015. The impact of
individual gifts is felt every day:
The Store continues its creative programming and special
offers under the direction of Audrie Rañon. The annual
Sunrise Sale will be held on Thursday, July 16. The
MFA will be the headquarters for the entire event, which
includes the shops along Beach Drive. The Downtown
Business Association will set up a booth on the front lawn
near the Museum’s entrance, attracting shoppers. The
Store will once again be the place to find the truly artistic.
Wear your pajamas and receive a free gift.
• $50 purchases supplies for a family “Make and
Take” art activity.
• $100 adds research materials to the Museum’s
library used by students, faculty, and the general
public.
On Thursday, September 17, from 5:30‑7:30 p.m., you
can enjoy, Meet the
Artist: Traer Price
of St. Petersburg,
in the Store.
Ms. Price’s custom
copper jewelry has
been called “earthy
chic,” and she will
bring a wide array
of one-of-a-kind
Copper necklace by Traer Price
pieces to this event.
Her jewelry is also
sold in the store of the Craft and Folk Art Museum in
Los Angeles, among other venues. Refreshments will be
served. For an overview of the artist’s stunning designs,
visit www.traerprice.com.
• $250 underwrites an American Sign Language
interpreter for lectures and special events.
• $500 covers the construction of a display case for
an exhibition.
• $1,000 brings a renowned guest lecturer or
performer to expand the arts experience.
• $5,000 protects and conserves the art for future
generations to enjoy.
Making a contribution is easy as 1-2-3: online, by
phone or by mail.
1. Donate online at fine-arts.org/annual-givingcampaign (click Donate to the MFA)
2. Call the Development Office at 727.896.2667.
3. Mail a check to MFA Development with
“Annual Fund” in the memo line.
Get ready for the holidays in September. During the
entire month, all holiday cards will be 20 percent off.
Please tell your friends.
Gifts of $1500 or more will be recognized in the
Mary Alice McClendon Conservatory. Thank you
again for being part of the Museum family and for
bringing art into the lives of ever more children
and adults.
Don’t forget to bring your MFA membership card to
the Store to receive your regular 10 percent discount
on all items. This is yet another reason to keep your
membership current.
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Eastman House and assistant to the archivist at the Keith
Haring Foundation.
During her previous seven-year tenure at the MFA, Ms. O’Dell
was a highly valued member of the curatorial department.
She assisted with more than 50 exhibitions and curated four,
including Changing Identities: The Len Prince Photographs of Jessie
Mann and On the Road: Photographs Across America. She holds
her BA in theater cum laude from the University of South Florida
and has also been a student in the “managing collections”
certificate program at New York University.
LECTURES | TALKS | SPECIAL EVENTS
Follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook, and visit www.
fine-arts.org for updates on public programs. These events are
sponsored in part by the Department of State, Division of Cultural
Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, and the State
of Florida. The Margaret Acheson Stuart Society provides major
support. Additional funds come from the City of St. Petersburg
and Westminster Communities of St. Petersburg. Programs are
subject to change without notice.
Sponsored by The DMG School Project
Free with MFA admission
LECTURES & GALLERY TALKS
Free with MFA admission
Gallery Talk by Director Kent Lydecker
on Drawing: The Foundation of Art,
Sunday, August 23, 3 p.m., followed by
a reception for MFA members only
Sunday, September 13, 3 p.m.
Glass artists Thomas Maras and Todd Cameron
Thomas Maras has been blowing glass
for more than 20 years and has received
national recognition for his bold use
of color and elegant forms. He began
studying ceramics at Worthington
Community College and continued
at Moorhead State University, also in
Minnesota, where he received his BA
in ceramics and glass in 1995. He has
written: “I enjoy working my glass hot.
I have the freedom of transforming
2100-degree molten glass into a work of
art, ready for use the following day.”
Kent Lydecker’s knowledge of art and
cultural history and his talent as an
educator always emerge in his gallery
talks. During his tenure at the MFA,
he has initiated and supervised the
renovation and transformation of the
galleries and the Marly Room in the original building, and,
with the curatorial department, led the reinstallation of the
collection. He has collaborated with other arts and community
organizations to a remarkable degree. In 2014, with the Tampa
Museum of Art, he brought My Generation: Young Chinese Artists
to the area. This expanded exhibition at two venues – a first
for both museums – introduced the public to the latest artistic
experimentation in China.
Baby Horizon by
Todd Cameron studied nearly all media,
Thomas Maras
including digital art, while pursuing
his BFA at the University of Minnesota.
Shortly after graduation, he was introduced to glassblowing and
found his calling. He once said: “The first time I worked with
molten glass, I was overcome by a powerful feeling – the type of
feeling I imagine a bird has the first time it spreads its wings and
takes flight.”
Before coming to the MFA, Dr. Lydecker was the Frederick
P. and Sandra P. Rose Associate Director for Education of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He held a similar
post at the Art Institute of Chicago, having begun his career at
the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. He holds his BA
in history magna cum laude from Rice University, his MA in art
history from Cornell University, and his PhD, also in art history,
from The Johns Hopkins University.
Sunday, October 11, 3 p.m.
Glass artist Hyunsung Cho
Hyunsung Cho has taught and exhibited widely in Korea,
Japan, and the United States and
has received numerous grants,
scholarships, and awards. He earned
his MFA in studio glass from Southern
Illinois University in Carbondale, his
MA in glass design from Kookmin
University in Seoul, Korea, and his BFA
in environmental design and plastic
arts from Namseoul University in
Chon-an, Korea.
Gallery Talk by Robin O’Dell, Manager
of Photographic Collections, on Five
Decades of Photography at the Museum
of Fine Arts, featuring The DandrewDrapkin Collection
Sunday, September 20, 3 p.m.
Robin O’Dell returned to the MFA last
year after earning her MA in photographic
preservation and collections management
in the joint program offered by Ryerson University in Toronto
and the George Eastman House International Museum of
Photography and Film in Rochester. She is overseeing and
cataloguing the MFA’s growing photography collection and
making recommendations for conservation and storage. During
her graduate study, she served as library assistant at the George
Lines of the Sky by
Hyunsung Cho
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He has conducted workshops at the
Pilchuck Glass School near Seattle, the
Corning Museum of Glass, and the
Pittsburgh Glass Center, among others.
His work has been featured twice in
the New Glass Review, published by the Corning. Mr. Cho has
noted that “visual impressions and personal memories from
the city are the main streams of my works.”
September 9: It’s Happening!
Return to the Happenings of the 1950s and 1960s as Ms. Colton
highlights the colorful, energetic, urban art of Red Grooms.
Coffee Talks with Nan Colton
Sponsored by:
Second Wednesday of the month.
Free with Museum admission.
Free with MFA admission. Cash bar. Lite snacks.
Connect with the arts through
monthly performances that give
voice and embodiment to the
two-dimensional. The MFA’s ever
popular artist-in-residence Nan
Colton creates scripts inspired
by special exhibitions and the
Museum collection. These
30-minute presentations introduce
Nan Colton as Dora Maar
great artists and other historical
figures, as well as the times in
which they lived. Enjoy refreshments at 10 a.m., Ms. Colton’s
performance at 10:30, and a general docent tour at 11:15. Visit
www.fine-arts.org/coffeetalks for her complete 2015 schedule.
In celebration of Five Decades of Photography, the MFA will
present films highlighting great photographers.
Thursday, July 23, 6:30 p.m.
Berenice Abbott: A View of the 20th Century (1992), directed by Kay
Weaver and Martha Wheelock, 57 minutes.
The candid Berenice Abbott, at the age of 91 and 92, takes us on
a tour of her work, encompassing her portraits of the Parisian
avant-garde of the 1920’s, her documentation of New York in the
1930’s, her science photography of the 1950s, and her studies of
small-town America.
Thursday, August 27, 6:30 p.m.
Office Killer (1997), Directed by Cindy Sherman, comedy, horror,
thriller, rated R, 82 minutes.
July 8: A Master Image-Maker
Encounter the pioneering photographer Berenice Abbott whose
compelling images ranged from urban landscapes to science
photography.
August 12: A French Photographer
Dora Maar, photographer, poet, and painter whom Pablo Picasso
called his “private muse,” emerges in this lively profile.
Cindy Sherman is one of the most celebrated photographers
of our time. In this film, a mousy magazine editor accidentally
kills one of her coworkers, then proceeds on a crime spree. Carol
Kane and Molly Ringwald are part of the cast.
Lunchtime Lectures
Artist Talks, Panel Discussions, Lectures
$10 for Contemporaries members; $15, plus MFA admission, for
nonmembers
Lunch included thanks to Eat, Sip, Indulge
Monday, July 6, noon: Contemporary African Photography
Dr. Allison Moore, Assistant Professor of African and
Contemporary Art History at the University of South Florida,
Tampa, is interested in the intersections of the global and
local and in postcolonial and feminist theories as applied to
contemporary African art. Her current book project examines
the impact of the founding of the pan-African Bamako
Photography Biennale on Malian art photography.
Monday, August 3, noon: Traveling Art
This panel discussion on mobile art features Carrie Bouch of
Nomad Art Bus, Rebecca Sexton Larson of Boxfotos, and Mitzi
Gordon of Bluebird Books Bus.
In partnership with the Alzheimer’s Association, ILLUMINATE offers
participants a space to experience and interpret art with your family
and friends. Discuss art and/or express yourself through a make
& take activity. Program is free. Supplies included for activities.
Refreshments. Two sessions available per month (choose one).
First and Third Mondays, 10-11:30 a.m.
Monday, August 31, noon: The Cultural Symbolism of Hair
Hair has become a conceptual touchstone for many
contemporary artists. Sharon Norwood and Jono Vaughan will
discuss the reasons hair and its styling aspects are used so
prominently in their work.
Advanced registration and a screening are required. For more information or to
register, call Mary Szaroleta at 727-896-2667, ext. 220, or email mary@fine-arts.org.
Sunday, September 13: Creative Time Summit
In collaboration with the University of South Florida, Tampa and
the Tampa Museum of Art.
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August 13: The Storied Life of AJ Finkry by Gabrielle Zevin, with
a discussion of the ways the literary and visual arts examine the
nuances of humanity.
September 10: Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland,
with a focus on the lives of the French Impressionists.
Youth & Family
First and third Saturday of the month, 10 a.m.
No Kidding Around Yoga on the Fourth of July
Ages three and older
$5 per person (includes
admission to entire Museum).
Please bring a towel or yoga
mat.
Kidding Around Yoga uses the
yoga poses or asanas creatively
tucked into partner yoga,
games and activities, original
music, stories, and more. The
class is designed for kids, but
entire families are welcome.
Practicing yoga with everyone
in the family and especially children creates a special bond.
Dr. George T.M. Shackelford, Deputy Director of the Kimbell
Art Museum in Fort Worth, examined “Monet by the Sea”
in the Wayne W. and Frances Knight Parrish Lecture on
Sunday, March 22. Talking before the lecture were (left to
right): Dr. Shackelford, Director Kent Lydecker, and longtime
supporter and collector William Knight Zewadski.
From Michelangelo to Miles:
A Music & Art Appreciation Series
MFA: Make and Take Saturday
Wednesdays, August 19 and 26 and September 2, 16, and 23
Enjoy refreshments at 10 a.m., with the workshops beginning at
10:30.
$55 members, $80 nonmembers
Instructors: Sally and Katherine Robinson of the Drum
Connection
First and Third Saturday of the month, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Free with Museum admission. No registration necessary.
For ages five and older, but entire families are encouraged to
participate.
Create your own masterpiece inspired by works in the collection
and special exhibitions. Supplies are included.
Due to popular demand, this series returns in late summer and
early fall. Discover the sights and sounds of the ages, as the
workshops connect music and art. No previous background is
required. Please register online at www.fine-arts.org/rsvp or call
727.896.2667, ext. 210.
July 4 and 18: Make your own photo journal. We will have all
the supplies you need to create the perfect book for your summer
stories.
August 1 and 15: Take a look at the rich colors and intricate
lines in Images of the Floating World and Beyond: Japanese
Woodblock Prints. Then make your own suminagashi piece, an
800-year-old Japanese technique for decorating paper.
September 5 and 19: Have fun experimenting with color and
make your own tie-dyed drawstring bag.
Drumming@The MFA!
Second and Fourth Saturdays of the month, 10:30-11:30 a.m.
Adults and families are welcome. Children must be accompanied
by an adult.
$5 per person
Presented by Sally and Katherine Robinson and the Drum
Connection
Second Thursday of the Month, 6:30 p.m.
Free with Museum Admission, which is only $5 after 5 p.m. on
Thursday and free all-year-round for MFA members
Join KEEP St. PETE LIT, a local organization that supports the
literary community, for a book club connecting the visual and
literary arts. Each month’s selection relates to the Museum’s
collection or special exhibitions.
Explore the many cultures represented in the Museum collection
by experiencing them to a rhythmic beat. Feel your musical
and artistic momentum grow while you drum out rhythms and
use other percussion instruments to bring art alive. No prior
experience is necessary. Just come and enjoy.
July 9: Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse to encourage
reflection on European artworks from the fourteenth to
seventeenth centuries.
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Summer Camps @ the MFA
Marine Science Yoga Art Camp
Presented by Kidding Around Yoga with KT and Rachel Stone
Monday August 3-Friday, August 7
8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. (Drop-off begins at 8 a.m.)
For grades three through seven (Exceptions may be made.)
$225 Museum members, $250 non-members. Sibling discount
is available. Tuition includes a nonrefundable application fee of
$75. All campers must register by Friday, July 24.
Certified children’s yoga teacher and marine scientist Katie
Toth and certified art teacher Rachel Stone are leading
this innovative camp. It weaves together the threads of
investigation, observation, curiosity, and exploration through
daily yoga classes, marine science instruction, and art
projects. A different theme of marine ecology, conservation,
and community service highlights each day. Please register
online at www.fine-arts.org/rsvp or contact Curator of Public
Programs Anna Glenn, anna@fine-arts.org or 727.896.2667,
ext. 233.
Students, parents, and teachers were recognized at a reception
for Visual Metaphor: Second Annual High School Art Exhibition on
Thursday, April 23, at the Museum. Pictured left to right are: Kyle
Prillmayer, Indigo Naar, Maria Agudelo, noted glass artist Duncan
McClellan of sponsor The DMG School Project, Leah VanStralen, MFA
Director Kent Lydecker, Amanda Matthews, Emily Miloro, Sienna
Grisanti, and Sue Castleman, Visual Arts Supervisor for Pinellas
County Schools. Those holding red ribbons received Awards of
Excellence; yellow, Awards of Merit; and white, Honorable Mention.
Renaissance Kids
Presented by the Drum Connection
Instructors: Sally and Katherine Robinson
Monday, August 10-Friday, August 14
8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. (Drop off children as early as 8 a.m. with no
additional charge.)
For grades three through seven
$225 Museum members, $250 nonmembers. Sibling discount
is available. Tuition includes a nonrefundable application fee of
$75. All campers must register by Friday, July 24.
Call for Volunteers
The Public Programs Department needs volunteers to
help with student tours and community outreach. For
more information or to sign up, please contact Curator
of Public Programs Anna Glenn, anna@fine-arts.org or
727.896.2667, ext. 233.
• Timekeepers should be able to address a large group
of students and help the “social studies” docents move
through all six galleries every 15 minutes. They need to
have a flexible schedule and be able to stand for at least
two-and-a-half hours at a time. This position requires
a commitment of one day a week, Tuesday-Friday from
10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Available September-May.
• Supply Managers will work in the afternoon, sharpen
pencils, and place worksheets on clipboards. Between 60
and 130 clipboards are used per tour. Volunteers work
individually and it typically takes an hour to complete
these assignments. Available September-May.
• Social Studies Docents connect ancient art in the
collection to the sixth-grade social studies curriculum.
Tours focus on six pre-assigned objects. Flexibility with
scheduling is a must, and the docents spend at least
two-and-a-half hours in the galleries at a time. The
position is one day a week, Tuesday-Friday from 10 a.m.12:30 p.m. Available September-May. Orientation
and interactive instruction will take place in August
and September. If you are interested, please notify
Curator of Public Programs Anna Glenn by Friday,
August 7.
Sally (left) and Katherine Robinson
Sally and Katherine Robinson are certified facilitators of groupempowerment drumming through the Remo Drum Corporation.
Together they offer more than 30 years of teaching experience
and are passionate about helping students develop a sense of
well-being while inspiring a lifelong love of music. They will
combine music, the visual arts, and inventions from diverse
cultures to transform the Museum into a world playground.
Participants will also learn approaches to drumming and
rhythms from each country studied. Please register online at
www.fine-arts.org/rsvp or contact Curator of Public Programs
Anna Glenn, anna@fine-arts.org or 727.896.2667, ext. 233.
• Museum Outreach Volunteers share information
about the MFA and introduce quick-and-easy craft
activities to people of all ages at local festivals and
special events throughout the year. They include science
festivals, RibFest, Creative Clay’s Folk Fest, our own
Painting in the Park, and more. Please be able to provide
your own transportation.
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Music
in the Marly
Dr. Heath, who holds his Bachelor of
Music from the University of Central
Florida, is Associate Professor of Trumpet
at Northeastern Illinois University and
the founder/director of the Chicago Brass
Festival.
Escape the heat with cool summer
concerts. Tickets are first-come, firstserved, cost $20 for adults and $10 for
students 22 and younger with current ID,
and can be purchased online by going to
www.fine-arts.org/rsvp. Admission to the
entire Museum is included in the ticket
price. Come early and have brunch in the
MFA Café.
violin performance and chamber music,
and Chilean Jorge Espinoza received
the Gregor Piatigorsky Scholarship to
earn his graduate performance diplomas
in cello and chamber music from the
distinguished Peabody Conservatory of
Music. He also holds a master’s in music
performance from Carnegie Mellon
University.
Marly Music Society members pay only
$15 per concert and are invited to a special
reception following the Stephen Prutsman
concert on August 16. Please consider
joining the group to support the series.
You must be a Museum member to join.
La Catrina Quartet is known for
performing works by Latin American
and Spanish composers and new music,
as well as the standard repertoire. They
are also dedicated teachers – Mr. Vega
Albela in Mexico and previously at
the Interlochen Center for the Arts
in Michigan and Ms. Arruda and
Mr. Martínez Ríos in New Mexico.
Mr. Espinoza, who is especially interested
in performing and arranging Latin
American folk music, has taught master
classes and workshops throughout the
Americas and in Europe.
The Music Committee, chaired by
Dr. Richard Eliason and co-chaired by
Demi Rahall, plans the series. Vicki
Sofranko is the staff coordinator. Concerts
are sponsored in part by the Friends of
Joe Sprain in his memory; the Estate of
Mrs. Elvira Wolfe de Weil; the Tampa Bay
Times; WUSF; and the State of Florida,
Department of State, Division of Cultural
Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts
and Culture. For more information, please
call 727.896.2667 or visit the website. The
concerts are at 2 p.m. on these Sundays:
August 2
Brass Roots Trio
July 19
La Catrina Quartet
Founded in 2001, the Quartet has
been hailed by Yo-Yo Ma as wonderful
ambassadors for music. Violinists
Daniel Vega Albela and Roberta Arruda,
violist Jorge Martínez Ríos, and cellist
Jorge Espinoza are some of Latin
America’s most talented. Their study and
performances have taken them to the U.S.
and abroad.
All of the artists hold their Master of
Music degrees. Mexican artist Daniel Vega
Albela holds graduate degrees in both
One of the most engaging ensembles
in the country, the Brass Roots Trio
produces symphonic sounds that can
turn into sultry jazz, fiery tangos, even
moving spirituals. French horn player
Douglas Lundeen, who began his training
in opera, will sometimes set aside his
instrument and sing an aria or spiritual.
Trumpeter Travis Heath’s repertoire
ranges from classical to big band and
jazz. He recently played for President
Barack and First Lady Michelle Obama
at the White House. He has shared the
stage with such legends as Ray Charles,
the Moody Blues, and Arturo Sandoval.
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Equally versatile, Dr. Lundeen has been
principal horn of orchestras in Cincinnati,
Pittsburgh, and Costa Rica; with Peter
Nero and the Philly Pops; and currently
with the Princeton Symphony. He has
also played on Broadway for Jekyll and
Hyde and Aida.
The founding member of the Brass Roots
Trio, pianist Rosetta Senkus Bacon has
performed internationally, including
at the Kennedy Center in Washington,
D.C., and was one of the duo pianists
for the production of Side By Side By
Sondheim with Arlene Francis and
Hermione Gingold. She has accompanied
Metropolitan Opera star Judith Raskin, as
well as master classes for Sherrill Milnes
and Gilda Cruz-Roma.
August 16
Stephen Prutsman, piano
Pianist, composer,
and arranger,
Stephen Prutsman
is one of the
most innovative
musicians of his
generation, moving
fluidly from
classical to jazz to
world music. In
his early teens, he
was the keyboard
player for such art rock groups as
Cerberus and Vysion and during college,
played in jazz clubs.
Mr. Prutsman went on to win the
Tchaikovsky and Queen Elisabeth
piano competitions and received an
Avery Fischer Career Grant, which led
to appearances with leading orchestras
in the United States and Europe. From
2004-2007, he was Artistic Partner with
the highly regarded St. Paul Chamber
Orchestra, composing and arranging
works and conducting from the keyboard.
From 2009-2012, he was Artistic Director
of the Cartagena International Festival
of Music in Colombia, presenting Mozart
celebrations, eclectic evenings of folk and
popular music, and programs fusing art
and dance music. He is now heading the
Mostly Mozart Evolution Series in San
Diego and Tijuana, Mexico.
His acclaimed CDs encompass Barber
and McDowell concertos with the
Royal Scottish National Orchestra and
the National Symphony Orchestra of
Ireland, as well as piano jazz originals.
As a composer, he has enjoyed a long
collaboration with the Grammy-winning
Kronos Quartet.
Yo-Yo Ma, Leon Fleisher, and the
St. Lawrence String Quartet have
also performed his compositions and
arrangements. Dawn Upshaw and
Emmanuel Ax premiered his song
cycle Piano Lessons at Carnegie Hall,
the Concertgebouw, Disney Hall, and
the Barbican Centre. Mr. Prutsman
is dedicated to breaking barriers and
bringing music to all people.
Ms. Flavin has concertized in more
than a dozen countries across three
continents and in such important
venues as Carnegie Hall, Amsterdam’s
Concertgebouw, and Maggio Musicale
in Florence. A founding member of
the Miami Clarinet and the Miami
Chamber Ensembles, she tours with
both throughout the United States and
has presented chamber music concerts
in New York, Boston, Washington, D.C.,
Paris, and London. She is Professor of
Clarinet and Director of the Woodwind
Program at the Frost School of Music
of the University of Miami. She holds
her doctorate from the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she
remains the only woodwind player ever
to have received the Krannert Center
Debut Artist Award.
Mr. Flavin is Professor of Violin at the
University of Miami, where he is a
member of the internationally known
Bergonzi String Quartet and Artistic
Coordinator and Resident Conductor of
the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra.
He is also Music Director of the Miami
Mozarteum Orchestra. He has appeared
on the podium with such diverse artists
as Denyce Graves, Chick Corea, Bobby
McFerrin, and Mark O’Connor.
Mr. Flavin’s compositions have been
heard on American Public Media’s
Performance Today and have been recorded
by the Bergonzi Quartet. He has two
solo classical CDs to his credit and
has participated on more than a dozen
Grammy Award-winning commercial
albums. Mr. Flavin plays a rare 1780 violin
by Tomaso Eberle.
Memorials & Tributes
In memory of Carole
Connors
Walter and Ginny Hall
Eric Lang Peterson
Stan and Iris Salzer
Dr. John E. Schloder
and Terrence Leet
Mary Ellen Shevlin
Mary L. Shuh
In memory of Marian
DiNatale
Anne DiNatale
In memory of Vernon and
Elizabeth Greene
Laurel Greene
In memory of Cecil H.
Roach, father of Vicki
Sofranko
Fay Mackey
In memory of Marge and
Larry Fast
Jim and LaRee Brock
In honor of Dr. Jennifer
Hardin, Thomas Gessler,
and Louise Reeves
Dr. John E. Schloder
In memory of Jane
Campbell Roberts
William P. and Sara C.
Wallace
In memory of Mrs. Aline
B. Imler
Linn Sennott
In memory of Sheldon
Rothman
Frantz Christensen and
Helen Hameroff
In memory of Howard A.
and Miriam F. Acheson
Fay Mackey
August 30
Pulse Chamber Music
This exceptional trio also combines
traditional and contemporary music
and has drawn enthusiastic audiences,
with rave reviews, to New York’s
Carnegie Hall; the Kennedy Center in
Washington, D.C.; Boston Symphony
Hall; and Harvard University. Pianist
Marina Radiushina, clarinetist Margaret
Donaghue Flavin, and violinist/violist
Scott Flavin have pursued successful solo
careers, as well.
Ms. Radiushina has won the Vladimir
Horowitz International Piano
Competition in her native Ukraine, the
Arthur Rubinstein International Piano
Competition in Poland, and the Cleveland
Institute of Music and the University of
Miami Concerto Competitions. She has
collaborated with conductor Sir Simon
Rattle at Carnegie Hall and also with
members of the Israel Philharmonic,
among others. She holds degrees from
Odessa Conservatory and the Cleveland
Institute of Music and a doctorate from
the University of Miami. She is on the
faculty of Florida International University
and co-founder/artistic director of the
Miami Chamber Music Society.
In memory of Ellie
Frazier
Carol Allen
Mary C. Wheeler
In memory of Joan
Gessler, mother of
Thomas Gessler
Eileen Bartelt
Dr. William and
Jacqueline Ley Brown
David Connelly
Doug and Barbara
DeMaire
Helen Hameroff
Dr. Mack and Susan
Hicks
Susan Cook Lahey
Fay Mackey
Michael Milkovich
Glenn Mosby
Dr. Richard E. and
Mary B. Perry
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In honor of Zola Kollock
Mila Turtle
In memory of Valerie
“Pat” LePera
Pauline Clark
McAndrew
In honor of Sarah
Lonquist
Rachael and Carol
Russell
In memory of Helen B.
Lydecker, mother of Kent
Lydecker
Fay Mackey
In memory of Charles W.
and Phoebe Mackey
Fay Mackey
In memory of Veronica
Belle Acheson Mackey
(Mrs. Cyrus Fay)
Fay Mackey
In memory of Dorothy
Fowler Scales
Dolores Scales
In honor of Gladys Schutz
Eleanor Whiteside
In memory of Robert
Stoffels, husband of Jan
Stoffels
David Connelly
Eleanor Davidov
Dr. John E. Schloder
In memory of Margaret
Acheson Stuart,
Museum Founder
Fay Mackey
The Margaret Acheson
Stuart Society
For the latest information, please visit www.thestuartsociety.org.
Like us on Facebook, www.facebook.com/thestuartsociety,
or send us a tweet, twitter.com/stuartsociety.
A Banner Year and a New Beginning
The Margaret Acheson Stuart Society made history in 2014-2015.
At the final meeting of the season on Thursday, May 21, in the
Marly Room, President Gail Phares presented a $713,000 check
to the Museum. Mrs. Phares thanked the officers, event and
committee chairs, provisionals, and many members for working
tirelessly to make this moment possible. The group later added
$2,500 to the gift, bringing the grand total to $715,500. Members
and provisionals donated 15,392 hours to the MFA during the year.
The 2015-2016 officers of The Stuart Society received flowers at
the final general meeting. They are (left to right): Corresponding
Secretary Roseanna Costa, Treasurer Maggi McQueen, Recording
Secretary Carolyn Reynolds, Vice President Susan Cook Lahey,
President-Elect Dimity Carlson, and President Carol Russell.
Even at this meeting,
The Stuart Society
looked to the future.
Mrs. Phares passed
the gavel to Carol
Russell, the 52nd
president. Provisionals
became members and
event chairs requested
support. Tickets were
already being sold for
SMartLY DRESSED
on Friday, October
30, in the Grand
Gail Phares (left), President of The Margaret
Ballroom of The
Acheson Stuart Society, hands the gavel
to new President Carol Russell at the
Vinoy Renaissance
final general meeting of the season on
St. Petersburg
Thursday, May 21, in the Marly Room.
Resort and Golf
Club. This incredible
organization of volunteers never takes a summer vacation.
The crucial
reservations chairs
follow: Loretta Stitt
(SMartLY DRESSED),
Gail Phares (Wine
Weekend St. Pete),
Shari Ellis (Affaires
d’Art), and Liz Curry
(Art in Bloom events).
The stellar schedule
features: SMartLY
DRESSED (October
30, 2015) and Wine
Weekend St. Pete
(February 5-7, 2016), as
Noted art and antiques appraiser and collector
well as a wide variety
Eric Lang Peterson created this floral design
of Affaires d’Art
at the general meeting in memory of Joan
throughout the season. Gessler, mother of longtime senior preparator/
Art in Bloom is set for
photographer Thomas Gessler. Both
Mr. Peterson and Mr. Gessler are members
April 7-11, 2016. The
of The Stuart Society. Mrs. Gessler chaired
“Flowers After Hours”
the Marly Music Committee for many years.
party will spotlight
the spring celebration
on Thursday, April 7, and the annual luncheon will be held on
Friday, April 8, in the Grand Ballroom of The Vinoy.
In addition to Mrs. Russell, the new officers are: President-Elect
Dimity Carlson, Vice President Susan Cook Lahey, Recording
Secretary Carolyn Reynolds, Corresponding Secretary Roseanna
Costa, Treasurer Maggi McQueen, and Parliamentarian Parsla
Mason. The standing committee chairs follow: Carol Piper (Ways
and Means), Betty Shamas (Nominating), Lisa Johni (Program),
Lorraine Danna (Volunteer Activities), Tina Dyer (2015-2016
Provisionals), Cary Thomas Rahall and Becky Ramsey (20162017 Provisionals), Candy Scherer Sharp (The Scene Editor), and
Dr. Juli Shamas (Publicity).
The service committee chairs follow: Janice Brinkley (meeting day
coffee), Sarah Lonquist (meeting day greeter), Donna Blazevic
(name badges), Cary Thomas Rahall and Becky Ramsey (holiday
decorations), and Toni Riche (historian/scrapbook).
The Plaza of Honor
at the Bayshore entrance to the Hazel Hough Wing
Order an Engraved Brick, the Perfect Memorial or
Tribute.
The event and project chairs are: Rachael Russell (SMartLY
DRESSED); Patricia Rossignol, John William Barger III, and
Gerry Davidson (Wine Weekend St. Pete 2016); Liz Heinkel
(Affaires d’Art); Toni Lydecker and Elise Minkoff (Food + Art);
and Libby Salamone (the Brick Project). Joann Barger is chairing
the organizational automation team.
• Commemorate an engagement, wedding, anniversary,
milestone birthday, or graduation.
• Memorialize relatives or special friends.
• Honor family, teachers, volunteers, or donors.
• Show support for the MFA.
Jan Stoffels is the coordinating chair of Art in Bloom 2016, and
Karen Banfield will oversee the installation of the floral designs.
Linda Dow, Marian Yon Maguire, and Rhonda Sanderford are
chairing the luncheon and Deann Coop and Sue Knipe, the
“Flowers After Hours” party.
Forms are available at the Welcome Desk. For more
information, please contact chair Libby Salamone,
libbysoldit@aol.com.
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THE MARGARET ACHESON STUART SOCIETY
presents
TO BENEFIT THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
St. Petersburg
Fashion Show, Luncheon & Silent Auction
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2015
The Vinoy Renaissance St. Petersburg Resort & Golf Club
Fashions presented by
Purchase your tickets by visiting www.thestuartsociety.org
Sponsorships are available by contacting Rachael Russell at 727.501.4374 or
rrussell@allamericanmortgage.net
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New Trustees
Attorney Erin
Smith Aebel,
a St. Petersburg
native, is a graduate
of Pinellas County
Center for the Arts at
Gibbs High School
and frequently
brings her two young
children to the MFA.
She and her husband
Bruce, also an attorney, live in Tampa.
Board-certified in health law by the Florida
Bar, Mrs. Aebel is a partner with Shumaker,
Loop & Kendrick, LLP, and is the firm’s
healthcare practice co-administrator.
Her clients include hospitals, physicians,
physician group practices, diagnostic
imaging centers, pharmacies, laboratories,
and medical spas. She is also an advisor on
the state’s developing medical marijuana
law and frequently speaks and writes about
healthcare topics. She has been published
in Florida Medical Business and by the
American Health Lawyers Association.
Mrs. Aebel was selected as the 2014
Businesswoman of the Year, Legal Services,
by the Tampa Bay Business Journal; a Florida
Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers magazine
annually from 2008-2014; and a member
of Florida Legal Elite by Florida Trend. She
currently chairs the Community Leadership
Board of the American Diabetes Association
Tampa Bay. She has served on the board
of Planned Parenthood of Southwest and
Central Florida and is past president of
Suncoast Health Care Executives and past
co-chair of the Hillsborough County Bar
Health Law Section.
An art lover, Mrs. Aebel has been a
member of her firm’s art committee since
its inception more than six years ago and
helps select works by Florida artists for its
collection. Each year, the firm features a
work by a new Florida artist on its holiday
card. She received her BA magna cum laude
from Loyola University in New Orleans and
her JD cum laude from the university’s law
school.
Laura Militzer
Bryant is one of the
few artists ever to join
the MFA board. She
is also the founder
and owner of Prism
Arts, Inc., which sells
premier yarns on-line
and in stores across
the country.
Ms. Bryant’s art
challenges conventional categories. It
could be described as painting created
by weaving. She is part of a tradition of
contemporary female artists reclaiming
traditional women’s crafts like knitting and
quilting and transforming them into fine
art. Using geometric forms and rich color,
Ms. Bryant could be seen as returning,
in part, to modernist and abstract
expressionist traditions, with a foundation
in a deep spirituality.
In addition to pursuing her art, Ms. Bryant
has published six books on knitting, most
recently Artful Color, Mindful Knits. She is
an on-line instructor for Craftsy.com and
frequent guest on Knitting Daily TV carried
by PBS stations nationwide. She has been
the president of The National NeedleArts
Association and received its Tribute to
Excellence in NeedleArts Award in 2006.
Her art has earned awards at juried
exhibitions and festivals in Florida and
around the country and has been shown
in a wealth of group exhibitions at art
centers and museums. She was represented
in UnderCurrents: OverView at the Tampa
Museum of Art and Woven Forms at the
Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland. Her work
was featured in a solo show, Crossings, at
the Morean Arts Center in 2008. She has
received an NEA Visual Artist Fellowship,
a Florida Individual Artist Fellowship, and
the Vern Stein Fine Art Award from the
Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, one of
our nation’s leading museums.
Major corporations, universities, and
hospitals have collected her art, including
Astra Zeneca, Xerox, Mobil Oil, Eli Lilly,
the University of South Florida, The Seton
Hall University Law School, Valparaiso
University, Loyola Medical Center,
and Tampa General Hospital. She has
served as vice president and treasurer of
Florida Craftsmen and on the Public Arts
Commission of St. Petersburg. She holds her
BFA summa cum laude from the School of Art
and Design of the University of Michigan.
As a civic activist,
James R. Gillespie
has advanced
the community’s
development and
quality of life in
countless ways. He
has been chair of
the St. Petersburg
Housing Authority
and the Pinellas
County Board of
Adjustment and has served on many
Pinellas County School Board committees.
He has mentored students at Blanton and
Melrose Elementary Schools and Lakewood
and St. Petersburg High Schools.
A strong advocate for the arts, Mr. Gillespie
held all board offices of the Bayfront
Advisory Council (Mahaffey Theater) and
has been a board member of American
Stage, as well as The Florida Orchestra since
1999. He has received the Golden Baton
Award from the Florida Orchestra Guild and
was selected for the Order of Salvador of the
Salvador Dalí Museum.
His service to other nonprofits has been
similarly exceptional. He is past president
of the YWCA of Tampa Bay, which awarded
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him the Virginia H. Lazzara Community
Service Award; past chair of the Bayfront
Health Foundation and member of the
governing board of Bayfront Medical
Center; and a past leader on committees
of the St. Petersburg Area Chamber of
Commerce.
In addition, he is a charter member and
past president of the Suncoast Tiger Bay
Club, past chair of Neighborly Senior
Services (now Neighborly Care Network),
past member of Family Service Centers,
and a member of The Suncoasters of
St. Petersburg since 1984, which named
him Mr. Sun in 2009. He is an alumnus of
Leadership St. Petersburg and Leadership
Tampa Bay and since 1989, Executive
Director of the St. Petersburg Automobile
Dealers Association, Inc. and South Pinellas
Auto Dealers LLC.
Mr. Gillespie holds his BA from Hamilton
College in Clinton, New York; his JD from
the University of Illinois College of Law;
and his LLM from Yale Law School. He
served three years as a JAG (legal officer)
in the United States Air Force and taught at
the Indiana University Law School before
coming to St. Petersburg in 1977. He and his
wife Emily have enjoyed a 46-year marriage
and have two adult children and seven
grandchildren.
Darryl A. LeClair
is Chief Executive
Officer, President,
and Chair of Echelon
companies, which
develop, own, and
manage commercial
and multi-family
real estate. These
holdings encompass
millions of square feet
of commercial office,
industrial, and warehouse and more than
three million of leasing and tenant space.
Echelon has also constructed over 30 multifamily residential properties throughout the
southeast and southwest, totaling more than
5,000 units.
In addition, Mr. LeClair holds an interest
in Corban OneSource and Evolve HR. The
former is a human resource outsourcing
company and the latter a professional
employer organization. Both offer payroll
services, benefits administration, applied
technology, and direction on such matters
as workers compensation and risk
management.
Prior to joining Echelon, Mr. LeClair was
CEO, President, and Chair of Echelon
International Corporation (EIN) and was
a member of the management team that
initiated the EIN spin-off from Florida
Progress Corporation (FPC). He previously
served in a number of high-level positions
with FPC, including Vice President of
Mergers and Acquisitions and Divestitures
and President of the subsidiaries Progress
Credit, Talquin Development, and Progress
Lending Corporations, among others. Over
the course of his career, he has negotiated
more than $3 billion in acquisition and
divestiture projects in the real estate,
aircraft, manufacturing, distribution,
wholesale, and retail industries.
Mr. LeClair and his wife Melissa have
provided substantial volunteer and
financial support to numerous charities,
including All Children’s Hospital, a
member of Johns Hopkins Medicine, which
awarded him the 2009 Belcher Award for
his many contributions. He was recently
inducted into the 2015 Tampa Bay Business
Hall of Fame and received the 2013 Gator
Great Award at the Emerson Celebration of
Scholarship event. That initiative provides
financial assistance to Pinellas County
students to attend the University of Florida.
The Perfect Anniversary Gift
Celebrate the MFA’s 50th anniversary by
honoring and remembering family and friends.
These gifts have a lasting impact on the
Museum’s exhibitions and programs for people
of all ages and are a unique tribute to the
honoree. Such donations are recognized with
a special note to the honoree and are listed in
the next issue of the Mosaic and in the Annual
Report.
Please contact Development Coordinator Amanda Bonanno for assistance,
abonanno@fine-arts.org or 727.896.2667, ext. 211.
The LeClairs proudly support Family First,
All Pro Dad with Tony Dungy, I-Mom, the
University of Florida, St. Raphael Catholic
Church and the Diocese of St. Petersburg,
and Goodwill Industries-Suncoast.
Mr. LeClair earned his BA in economics
from the University of Florida.
Fred S. Razook Jr.
is the founder and
Chief Executive
Officer of RCH
Capital, a privately
held mortgage
banking firm in
St. Petersburg.
Since 1992, he
has directed and
overseen the
acquisition and
management of commercial mortgages and
bonds to finance real estate acquired in the
secondary market.
During the first decade of that period,
Mr. Razook was the Chief Operating
Officer of WRH Mortgage, Inc., an
affiliate of the former firm of William R.
Hough & Co. Prior to that, he was the
Florida commercial real estate partner
for the Austrian-based L.J. Hooker and
Executive Vice President of The Crisp Co.,
a property brokerage and development
firm in St. Petersburg. Born and raised
in West Palm Beach and a graduate of
Florida State University, he began as a
certified public accountant with the former
firm of Tornwall, Lang & Lee, also in
St. Petersburg.
Mr. Razook has been and remains
active in various social and professional
organizations in the city he has called
home for 45 years. He has served as chair
of the boards of Shorecrest Preparatory
School, Modern Business Associates, and
Operation PAR, Inc., which treats and tries
to prevent substance abuse. He has also
chaired the St. Petersburg Environmental
Development Commission and is a current
trustee of Eckerd College. Gail Crisp
Razook, his wife of 44 years, is a member of
The Margaret Acheson Stuart Society.
Thank You
The MFA is grateful to the following donors who contributed to
Annual Giving between February 21 and May 26:
$25,000 and Up
Hough Family Foundation, Inc.
The Margaret Acheson Stuart
Society
$10,000 to $24,999
Dav and Glenn Mosby
$1,000 to $4,999
Thomas Brenner and Antoinette
King
James and Emily Gillespie
Laurel J. Greene
Royce Haiman
Dr. Ilda L. Hall
Fay Mackey
Mary Alice McClendon
Ronald and Sheila Miller
Morgan Stanley
Harold E. and Becky Wells
$500 to $999
George and Deborah Baxter
Justus D. and Carol Doenecke
James and Suzanne MacDougald
Up to $499
A.J.’s Power Source, Inc.
Mary Wyatt Allen
Merle F. and Myrna Allshouse
Robert and Dr. Angela J. Baisley
Roy Binger
Jim and LaRee K. Brock
Dr. William and Jacqueline Ley
Brown
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Hillary Carlson Cone
Eleanor Davidov
Anne DiNatale
John J. and Paula Disa
Martha Ann Haile
Walter C. and Ginny Hall
Margaret V. Harris
Paul and Roberta Holland
John R. and Elly C. Hopkins
Elsa M. Hov
Susan Cook Lahey
Jane Lee
Les Etudiantes
Beth Lind
Charles O. and Laurie Lowe
Pauline Clark McAndrew
Isabelle R. Peterson
Laila Petrou
Harry J. and Winifred Pfister
Beveridge J. and Janet D.
Rockefeller
Rachael and Carol Russell
Dolores Scales
Linn Sennott
Bob and Carol Stewart
Kurt and Jane Strasser
Sheila Tempelmann
Mila Turtle
Krista K. Whipple
Eleanor Whiteside
Evelyn M. Wilty
William Knight Zewadski, Esq.
Circle Level Members
Director’s Circle
Edwards, Bill and Joanne
Hough, William R. and Hazel
James, Tom and Mary
Mahaffey, Mark T. and Marianne
Vinik, Jeff and Penny
Founder’s Circle
Dillon, Roderick and Marina
Edwards, William P. and Ann
Mosby, Glenn and Dav
Novack, Patti and Irwin
New/Upgraded
Sustainer/Benefactor
Hayes, Jennifer
Klipper, Andrew and Barbara
LeFevre, Carol
Markham, Charles and Kathleen
Pachell, Cheryl
New General Members
March 5- May 28
Friend
Ebel, Nancy
Graham, Kelly and Philip
Kletter, Irwin and Elizabeth
Linde, Elizabeth and Irwin
Mueller, Arndt
Prakash, Chakrapani and Usha
Family
Acosta, Diane and Howard
Agudelo, Maria
Arnold, Fred and Janine
Asuncion, Anna Marie and Ahmed
Baker, Jim and Marjie
Barry, Bill and Sherry
Berke, Peter and Carole
Bernstein, Kim and Neil
Bindert, Patricia and Michelle
Bishop, Nettie
Bittick, Kelly
Black, Barry and Jill
Bluestien, Jared
Boldt, Tammy
Bonds, Jenny and Philip
Bourgeois, Michelle and Howard
Bowden, Sharen
Braiman, Dale and Sue
Brown, Bruce and Tricina
Brown, Diana and Robert
Bunbury, Elizabeth
Bundy, Natalya
Bundy, Nicole
Butler, Pamela and Robert
Butterly, George P.
Camp, Cheryl Pelletier
Carey, Lyn
Casoria, Tony
Castine, David and Diana
Cloutier, Michelle and Patricia
Colgan, Claire and Michael
Crawfurd, Jonathan and Nancy
Cruse, Allison and Lucas
Currier, Glenn
Dangel, Robert and Diana
Dean, Glenn and Craig
Del Zoppo, Tom and Elyse
Devereux, Nikki
Devine, Carole and Peter
Dudley, Dwight and Mary Rachel
Eliason, Francis and Sharon
Elmer, David and Diane
Fisher, Andrew and Kelly
Fogarty, Allison and Florence
Gallagher, Kathryn
Gerometta, Bob and Sue
Girgenti, Pat and Russ
Glavich, David
Goldenberg, Ann
Goldstein, Howard and Michelle
Gordon, Edith
Gosling, Jon and Sandra
Greenwood, William and Cathleen
Griffin, Grace and Justin
Grisanti, Sienna
Hallums, Susan
Hammill, Barry and Renee
Hart, Eileen
Hartle, Courtney
Hartwell, Dana and Jonathan
Healy, Katie and Keira
Hoeldtke, John and Maureen
Huempfner-Gatz, Geraldine
Huprich, Art and Elane
Hutchins, Eileen and Sam
Keech, Brandi
Kennedy, Carla
Kiger, Darl and Joshua
King, Kim
Kotsatos, Chris and Irene
Krauthamer, Gary
Kriseman, Kerry and Rick
Lahey, Laurie and Brian
Larkin, Jamie and Amanda
Law, Barbara and Trevor
Lawrence, Kirsten
Lawson, Jerry and Phyl
Levett, Ellen and Joy
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Madsen, Melissa and Joseph
Magalios, George and Kristina
Marone, Christopher and Lisa
Martin, Jenny
Mashek, Dianne and Edward
Mastry, Don
Matthews, Amana
Matthews, Gregory and Kathleen
McClendon, Tricia
McDonough, Dawna and John
McNamara, Karen
McNeill, Judith and Ralph
Meeham, Christine and Edward
Melchior, Greg and Vonda
Melkumova, Olga
Milan, Craig and Glenn
Milani, Kim and Steve
Miller, Dave and Kathleen
Miloro, Emily
Molise, Deborah and James
Montgomery, Bonnie and James
Morgan, Patti and Ted
Mullen, Robert and Zoa Jean
Murray, Joseph and Melissa
Naar, Idigo
O’Donnell, Sean and Veronica
Oldt, Tom and Jeri
Oliver, Gene and Sherry
Olson, Lynne
Ornell, Jack and Kelly
Pagano, David
Parente, Sharon and John
Parker, Ira
Patterson, Joshua and Darla
Perez, Mariela and Anthony
Poffenberger, Gail and Tom
Posluszny, Lisa
Powell, Don and Joyce
Premer, Jade
Prillmayer, Kyle
Prokopp, Kathleen
Ramsey, Elijah
Reed, David and Ellen
Reid, Terri
Rineer, Gail and Scott
Risley, Adam and Sandra
Risner, John and Sharon
Roberts, Joy and Ellen
Robertson, Susan
Rubin, Rita
Ruiz-Carus, Margaret and Ramon
Russo, Elizabeth and James
Rutherford, Charr and Russ
Salverezza, Anthony and Mariela
Seadler, Amanda and Jamie
Segundo, Marissa
Sellers, Heather
Shanafelt, Janice
Shannon, Elisa
Shepard, Brigitte and John
Shoreibah, Ahmed and Anna Marie
Shulman, Marjorie
Shuttera, Robert
Smith, Julie and Robert
Stamey, Chuck and Lynne
Steward, Jeri and Tom
Strayer, Douglas and Karen
Stumpf, Kathie and Robert
Tetzlaff, Lana and Raymond
Tollin, Michael and Sharon
Tomlinson, Bruce and Glenda
Tony, Pamela
Torgrimson, Ginger and Ryan
Tryon, Charlynn and Cliff
Unnasch, Thomas
Van Stralen, Leah
Van Weezel, Donald and Mary
Vandegrift, Suzanne and Vaughn
Vanstekelenburg, Anna and G.W.
Vasko, Michelle
Ventura, Ken and Susanne
Wagner, Donald and Linda
Warniment, Justin and Grace
Watson, Mary and Terry
Whiting, Michael and Tanasha
Whyte, Dorothy
Wilkinson, Emily and Jerry
Williams, Jill
Wilson, Andrew and Marissa
Winings, Brian and Laurie
Wiseley, Yvonne
Wood, David
Yee, Kathleen and William
Zaccaro, Elyse and Tom
Individual
Boucher, Carolyn
Cappa, John
Cherkus, Zina
Curran, Leslie
De Groot, Jeanette
D’Polite, Samantha
Drago, Sanban
Droege, Mary Ann
Eastman, Christine
Eaton, Christopher
Evans, Corinne
Everett, Sarah
Finn, Joan
Firebaugh, Chloe
Fish, Margo
Fisher, Elizabeth
Flatley, Peggy
Friedrichs, Lynn
Funsch, Jane
Gorman, Kate
Gregory, Douglas
Guerra, Evelyn
Haggar, Jacquelyn
Hewitt, Elaine
Hickman, Ann
Jackson, Robert
Khalsa, Nam Joti
Knight, Camille
Koziar-Jordan, Elaine
Lagueux, Lea
LaValla, Mercedes
Lemire, Lorraine
Leonard, Christine
Liotta, Sandra
Mayo, Kathy
McMullen, Anne
Monaghan, Bob
Newton, Richard
Niewierski, Joe
O’Brien, Pam
Randolph, Renee
Reese, Elizabeth
Rossi, Eileen
Saunders, Jonetia
Schmidt, Elizabeth
Scott, Margaret
Shareef, Ozair
Shouppe, Whitney
Siedlecki, Wendy
Siewruk, Susan
Sorrell, Marilyn
Spegal, Norma
Steirer, Anna
Sterling, Charlotte
Stuckey, Rick
Thinnes, Kat
Uebel, Rosemary
Volgende, Jane
Wagstaff, Mary Lou
Wall, Mary Booker
Walter, Rosemarie
Weaver, Patrice
Wheeler, Suzanne
Wolf, Natalie
Wright, Frances
Young, Robin
Zachman, Dawn
New Staff
Margaret Murray is the MFA’s
new Donor Development
Manager. She will work closely
with Director of Development
Daryl DeBerry in expanding
individual and corporate donors
and planning for the future.
Previously, Ms. Murray was the highly successful
Executive Director of the Tampa International Gay
and Lesbian Film Festival. She increased sponsorship
support by more than 60 percent and brought
such national companies as AT&T, PNC Bank, and
Mini Cooper into the fold. She also boosted grant
funding by 50 percent, developed and implemented
an extensive marketing effort, and formed new
partnerships with other arts institutions, including
the MFA, freeFall Theatre, and The Palladium.
From 2009-2013, Ms. Murray was the Major Gifts
Officer for the Physicians Committee for Responsible
Medicine, a nonprofit in Washington, D.C. dedicated
to integrating health, science, and compassion. With
150,000 members, the Physicians Committee is at the
forefront of advancing nutrition to maintain health
and to prevent disease and of using alternatives to
animal research.
Ms. Murray solicited gifts of $5,000-$25,000 from a
portfolio of 125 philanthropists, family foundations,
and funding organizations. In addition, she
secured support for fundraisers in New York and
Los Angeles, as well as Washington, D.C., lobbied
members of Congress, and publicized appearances
by such supporters as Ellen DeGeneres and Alec
Baldwin.
Again, Ms. Murray was heavily involved in
development as the Executive Director of One in
Ten, also in Washington, D.C., from 2006-2009. One
in Ten produces a range of arts events, including
Reel Affirmations, the country’s third largest LGBT
film festival. During her tenure, she increased grant
funding by 70 percent, generated $300,000 in annual
corporate gifts, initiated partnerships with other
major cultural institutions such as the Smithsonian
museums, and expanded festival programming to
Virginia and Maryland.
Scholar
Barr, Ellen
Bayers, Lewis
Bayers, Patricia
Broughman, Joyce
Davis, Debra
Deegan, Kathleen
Duncan, David
Fernandez, David
Green, Beverly
Hahn, Karl
Maxwell, Ellen
Pisano, Dominick
Reilly, Kathleen
Schneider, Claire
Schumaker, Christine
Smith, Kay
Solomon, Jill
Spring, Debbie
Thoni, Bridget
Van Galder, Arra and Ladel
Yamazaki, Chieko
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Closer to home, Ms. Murray was the Communications
Director of the Morean Arts Center from 2003-2006;
publicized exhibitions, programs, and classes; and
worked with the Dale Chihuly team in the initial
plans for a gallery in St. Petersburg. She is currently
a member of the steering committee for The
Contemporaries, a trustee of the Studio@620, and
Secretary of the Jack Kerouac House. Ms. Murray
holds her BA in geography from the University of
South Florida and her MA in arts administration from
the Savannah College of Art and Design.
And the Winner is
Gala
Members of the Collectors Circle
selected the atmospheric Evening in
Giverny (about 1891) by American
artist John Leslie Breck at the
Collectors Choice XIV Gala on
Friday, April 24, in the Marly Room.
Demi Rahall, Founding President
of the Collectors Circle, announced
the winner. Hillary Carlson Cone
and Judi Kelly chaired the soldout “Sojourn on the Côte d’Azur,”
which celebrated the MFA’s 50th
anniversary and the 20th of the
Collectors Choice XIV Gala chairs Judi
Collectors Circle. The Helen Torres
Kelly (left) and Hillary Carlson Cone.
Foundation, The Bank of Tampa,
and Comegys Insurance Agency were the sponsors. Seymour
Gordon, past President of the Board of Trustees and current
honorary trustee, is President of the Collectors Circle.
Breck’s Evening in Giverny,
displayed in the Barbara
Godfrey Smith Gallery,
combines elements of
Impressionism and
Modernism with its geometric
planes and architecture. It
can be easily compared to
Monet’s Springtime in Giverny,
Afternoon (1885), on view
in the adjoining Cyrus Fay
Mackey Gallery. Breck’s scene
focuses on the road through
the village and a cluster of
buildings to great effect, while
Monet foregrounds the field
with sunlit trees and flowers
blowing in the breeze.
George Biddle (American, 1885-1973)
Portrait of Fletcher Martin with a German Pistol (1943)
Oil on canvas
Museum Purchase
Museum. Biddle (1885-1973) painted his rare, compelling portrait
of fellow American artist Fletcher Martin when both were serving
in Tunisia and southern Italy during World War II. It complements
Martin’s The Undefeated (1948), the 2012 Collectors Choice
also exhibited in the Paul and Alice Poynter Gallery. Biddle is
largely credited with persuading Harvard classmate Franklin D.
Roosevelt to establish the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress
Administration, which played a major role in the development of
American culture.
Breck (1860-1899) studied at
the Royal Munich Academy in
Germany and the Académie
Darryl Fake with longtime Collectors
Julian in Paris, but found
Choice sponsor Helen Torres.
his strongest influence and
mentor in Monet. While he traveled back to Paris and his native
Boston, he chiefly lived in Giverny, Monet’s beloved home, for about
five years and formed a friendship with the great artist. A failed
relationship with Monet’s stepdaughter led to a rupture and Breck’s
permanent return to Boston, where he had an important solo show of
Impressionist-style paintings in 1890.
Though he passed away at the young age of 39, he created impressive
paintings that are in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston; the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington,
D.C.; and the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, among others.
His work is ideal for the MFA, with its noted selection of French
Impressionist art, as well as paintings by his fellow Americans
Theodore Robinson and Willard Metcalf, who also fell under the
spell of Giverny and Monet.
Bob Thompson (American, 1937-1966)
Untitled (1963)
Gouache on paper
Museum Purchase
Two other American works under consideration – George Biddle’s
Portrait of Fletcher Martin with a German Pistol (1943) and an untitled
gouache by Bob Thompson – have also been purchased by the
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Bob Thompson produced approximately 1,000 paintings and
drawings during his brief career which ended shortly before his
29th birthday. This untitled work, exhibited in the Howard Acheson
Gallery, was influenced by two etchings in Los Caprichos series
by Goya, but is more whimsical and richly colorful. Thompson,
an African American, is represented in the collections of The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the
Art Institute of Chicago, among others. He received a retrospective
at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1998.
(Left to right) Marianne
Mahaffey, Dr. Mack and
Susan Hicks, and Mark
Mahaffey, Chair of the
MFA’s Board of Trustees.
The MFA is grateful to the gala chairs, the sponsors, and those
who attended and supported the gala. Since its inception in 1995,
the Collectors Circle has provided funds to add 34 works to the
collection – an extraordinary achievement.
Diane Fair (left) with
past Stuart Society
president Mary Shuh.
(Left to right) Current
Collectors Circle President
Seymour Gordon, past
president Mary Alice
McClendon, and Founding
President Demi Rahall
celebrated the group’s 20th
anniversary at the gala.
Chitranee and Dr. Robert L.
Drapkin, who have been
instrumental in building
the Museum’s exceptional
photography collection.
(Left to right) Tim Mann, gala
co-chair Hillary Carlson Cone,
and Craig West. Mr. Mann and
Mr. West represented The Bank
of Tampa, one of the sponsors.
(Left to right) Director
Emeritus Dr. John
Schloder, current
Director Kent Lydecker,
and Terry Leet.
(Left to right) Emily Gillespie, Debbie and George Baxter,
trustee James Gillespie, and Board Chair Mark Mahaffey.
(Left to right) Helen
Hameroff with
Frantz Christensen
(standing behind)
and Bruce and Mary
Ann Marger.
Mark and Linda Berset, owners of sponsor Comegys
Insurance Agency, admire the Collectors Choice, John
Leslie Breck’s Evening in Giverny (about 1891).
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Collectors Circle Corporate
and Foundation Sponsors
Astral Extracts
The Bank of Tampa
Christie’s
Comegys Insurance Agency
Fifth Third Private Bank
Retro Beach Bash
in cooperation with
the Collectors Circle
Friday, April 24
Green, Henwood and Hough
Investment Group, RBC
Wealth Management
Helen Torres Foundation
Northern Trust
Michelle and artist
Jason Hackenwerth.
Collectors Circle New Members
Erin Smith Aebel
Arthur and Karen
Birnkrant
Mary Alice Braukman
Cathy Collins
Enrique Crespo
Alfred May
William McQueen
Glenn Mosby
Michael Tomor
Linda Winton
(Left to right) Kat Thinnes, Keri Albritton,
Lynn Friedrichs, and Jessica Ehrlich.
Dr. Helena Katalin Szépe, Associate Professor of Renaissance Art
History at the University of South Florida, discussed “Painted
Manuscripts of Renaissance Venice” in her Collectors Circle
lecture on Thursday, April 16. Enjoying the reception were (left
to right): Richard Park of sponsor Northern Trust, Jacqueline Ley
Brown, Dr. Szépe, Kimberley Payne of Northern, Collectors Circle
President Seymour Gordon, and Director Kent Lydecker.
(Left to right) Patrick Beyer, Terry Leet, Simone
DeLoach, Kevin Hohl, and Kimberley Payne.
Board of Trustees 2015
Executive Committee
Mr. Mark T. Mahaffey,
Chairman
Mrs. Cathy Collins, Vice
Chairman
Mr. Wayne (Skipp) Fraser,
CPA , Treasurer
Mr. Clark Mason, Secretary
Mr. Howard Mills
Mrs. Glenn Mosby
Mr. Fred S. Razook Jr.
Dr. Kent Lydecker, Director
Trustees
Mrs. Erin Smith Aebel
Mr. Roy Binger
Ms. Laura Militzer Bryant
Mr. Gary Damkoehler
Dr. Gordon J. Gilbert
Mr. James R. Gillespie, JD,
LLM
Mr. Robert L. Hilton
Mrs. Hazel C. Hough
Mr. Richard Kriseman,
Mayor of the City of
St. Petersburg, ex officio,
nonvoting
Mr. Darryl A. LeClair
Ms. Fay Mackey
Mrs. Mary Alice McClendon
Mrs. Patti Novack
Mr. Marshall Rousseau
Ms. Ellen Stavros
Mr. Harold E. Wells Jr.
Mrs. Carol Russell,
President, The Margaret
Acheson Stuart Society
Honorary Trustees,
nonvoting
Mrs. Isabel Bishop, Honorary
Memorial Trustee
Mr. Seymour A. Gordon, Esq.
Mr. Charles Henderson
Mr. Peter Sherman
Mrs. Carol A. Upham
Beach balls adorned the ceiling of the Mary
Alice McClendon Conservatory.
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DATES to Remember
Images of the Floating World and
Beyond: Japanese Woodblock Prints
Through Sunday, August 16
Five Decades of Photography at the
Museum of Fine Arts, featuring The
Dandrew-Drapkin Collection
Through Sunday, October 4
Drawing: The Foundation of Art
Saturday, August 22-Sunday,
November 29
Marks Made: Prints by American
Women Artists from the 1960s to the
Present
Saturday, October 17, 2015Sunday, January 24, 2016
General Tours, MondaySaturday, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.,
Sunday, 2 p.m.
Family Tours, Saturdays, 11 a.m.
JULY
Saturday/4
MFA: Make and Take – Photo
Journals, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Annual Fourth of July
Celebration, beginning at 6 p.m.
Monday/6
ILLUMINATE, Session A,
10-11:30 a.m.
The Contemporaries Lunchtime
Lecture: Dr. Allison Moore of
the University of South Florida
on contemporary African
photography, noon-1 p.m.
Wednesday/8
Coffee Talk with Nan Colton’s
A Master Image-Maker, tour, and
refreshments, 10-11 a.m.
Thursday/9
Book Club @ the MFA: Narcissus
and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse,
6:30 p.m.
Saturday/11
Drumming @ the MFA,
10:30-11:30 a.m.
Thursday/16
Sunrise Sale in the Store and on
Beach Drive, 6:43 a.m.
Porch Party, 5:30-7 p.m.
Saturday/18
Kidding Around Yoga, 10-11 a.m.
MFA: Make and Take – Photo
Journals, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Sunday/19
Music in the Marly: La Catrina
Quartet, 2 p.m.
Monday/20
ILLUMINATE, Session B,
10-11:30 a.m.
Thursday/23
Cinema @ the MFA: Berenice
Abbott: A View of the 20th Century,
6:30 p.m.
Wednesday/19
From Michelangelo to Miles:
A Music & Art Appreciation
Series, 10 a.m.
Saturday/25
Drumming @ the MFA,
10:30-11:30 a.m.
Thursday/20
Porch Party, 5:30-7 p.m.
AUGUST
Saturday/1
Kidding Around Yoga, 10-11 a.m.
MFA: Make and Take –
Suminagashi Activity,
11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Sunday/2
Music in the Marly: Brass Roots
Trio, 2 p.m.
Monday/3
ILLUMINATE, Session A,
10-11:30 a.m.
The Contemporaries Lunchtime
Lecture: Traveling Art, noon1 p.m.
Marine Science Yoga Art Camp
begins today and continues
through Friday, August 7, 8 a.m.3:30 p.m.
Saturday/22
Drumming @ the MFA,
10:30-11:30 a.m.
Drawing: The Foundation of Art
opens.
Wednesday/16
From Michelangelo to Miles:
A Music & Art Appreciation
Series, 10 a.m.
Sunday/23
Gallery Talk on Drawing: The
Foundation of Art by MFA Director
Kent Lydecker, 3 p.m., followed by
members’ reception.
Thursday/17
Meet the Artist: Traer Price,
creator of custom copper jewelry,
Museum Store, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Porch Party, 5:30-7 p.m.
Wednesday/26
From Michelangelo to Miles:
A Music & Art Appreciation
Series, 10 a.m.
Saturday/19
Kidding Around Yoga, 10-11 a.m.
MFA: Make and Take – Tie-Dyed
Bags, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Thursday/27
Cinema @ the MFA: Office Killer,
directed by Cindy Sherman,
6:30 p.m.
Sunday/20
Gallery Talk on Five Decades of
Photography at the Museum of Fine
Arts by Robin O’Dell, Manager of
Photographic Collections, 3 p.m.
Sunday/30
Music in the Marly: Pulse
Chamber Music, 2 p.m.
Saturday/8
Drumming @ the MFA,
10:30-11:30 a.m.
Monday/31
The Contemporaries Lunchtime
Lecture: The Cultural Symbolism
of Hair, noon-1 p.m.
Monday/10
Renaissance Kids Art Camp
begins today and continues
through Friday, August 14, 8 a.m.2:30 p.m.
SEPTEMBER
Tuesday/1
Holiday Card Sale begins
today in the Museum Store and
continues throughout the month.
Wednesday/12
Coffee Talk with Nan Colton’s
A French Photographer, tour, and
refreshments, 10-11 a.m.
Wednesday/2
From Michelangelo to Miles:
A Music & Art Appreciation
Series, 10 a.m.
Thursday/13
Book Club @ the MFA: The
Storied Life of AJ Finkry by
Gabrielle Zevin, 6:30 p.m.
Saturday/15
Kidding Around Yoga, 10-11 a.m.
MFA: Make and Take –
Suminagashi Activity, 11 a.m.2 p.m.
Sunday/16
Music in the Marly: Pianist
Stephen Prutsman, 2 p.m.
Last Day to see Images of the
Floating World and Beyond: Japanese
Woodblock Prints.
Wednesday/23
From Michelangelo to Miles:
A Music & Art Appreciation
Series, 10 a.m.
OCTOBER
Sunday/4
Last Day to see Five Decades of
Photography at the Museum of Fine
Arts.
Sunday/11
Hot Gatherings, Cool
Conversations: Glass artist
Hyunsung Cho, 3 p.m.
Saturday/17
Marks Made: Prints by American
Women Artists from the 1960s to the
Present opens.
Wednesday/9
Coffee Talk with Nan Colton’s It’s
Happening, tour, and refreshments,
10-11 a.m.
Thursday/29
Art Advances Fashion
Forward: Three Magical Worlds
Collide, Fine Art, Fashion, and
Photography, 5:30-10 p.m.
Saturday/12
Drumming @ the MFA,
10:30-11:30 a.m.
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Monday/21
ILLUMINATE, Session B,
10-11:30 a.m.
Saturday/5
Kidding Around Yoga,
10-11 a.m.
MFA: Make and Take – Tie-Dyed
Bags, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Thursday/10
Book Club @ the MFA: Luncheon
of the Boating Party by Susan
Vreeland, 6:30 p.m.
Monday/17
ILLUMINATE, Session B,
10-11:30 a.m.
Sunday/13
Creative Time Summit,
discussion and screenings,
1-5 p.m.
Hot Gatherings, Cool
Conversations: Glass artists
Thomas Maras and Todd
Cameron, 3 p.m.
Friday/30
SMartLY DRESSED, presented
by The Margaret Acheson Stuart
Society, Grand Ballroom, The
Vinoy, 11 a.m.
Major Sponsors of exhibitions
and educational programs
The Margaret Acheson Stuart Society
Mark and Marianne
Mahaffey
Jeff and Penny
Vinik
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ST. PETERSBURG, FL
PERMIT NO. 5408
Media Sponsor
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St. Petersburg, FL 33701
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Museum open
10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday
10 a.m.-8 p.m. Thursday
Noon-5 p.m. Sunday
MFA Café open 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
Tuesday-Sunday
John Leslie Breck
(American, 1860-1899)
Evening in Giverny
(about 1891)
Oil on canvas
Museum Purchase with
funds provided by the
Collectors Circle
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