You are cordially invited to attend the

OPENING NIGHT
Gala Preview

Thursday Evening

5:30pm - 8:30pm

at The Cyclorama, Boston Center for the Arts

539 Tremont Street in Boston's South End
 

5:30pm VIP Sneak Preview - $250 - First Choice of Works on View

6:30pm Gala Preview Party - $75

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Cocktail attire. Valet parking available.

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 Enjoy exquisite cuisine, fine wine, and jazz by the Lihi Haruvi Quartet,

and be among the first to select from our most dazzling array ever!

Your Gala ticket includes complimentary show catalog, re-admission

throughout the weekend and all special programs and speakers. Gala tickets are transferable.

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2019 Honorary Committee 

Mayor Martin J. Walsh

Senator Edward J. Kennedy, Chair of Senate Tourism, Arts & Culture Committee

Representative Paul McMurtry, Chair of House Tourism, Arts & Culture Committee

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Betty Avruch

John P. Axelrod and Darwin Cordoba

Robert Bachelder

Nancy E. Berry, Editor, Northshore Magazine

Nick Capasso, Ph.D., Director,
Fitchburg Art Museum

Gregory Cerio, Editor in Chief

The Magazine Antiques

David J. Colella, Vice President,
The Colonnade Hotel, and Nancy Colella

Jaci Conry, Editor,

Modern Luxury Interiors Boston

David B. Dearinger, Ph.D.

Nancy Dieterich, Managing Director, Local Corporate Sponsorship, WGBH

Julia H. Donahue, Baystate Financial Services

Michelle DuBois, Director,
Winston Art Group

David G. Dudley

Kathy Bush Dutton, Publisher,

New England Home

Cathy Edwards, Executive Director, New England Foundation for the Arts

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Peter Hastings Falk, Editor & Chief Curator,

Discoveries in American Art

Colleene Fesko

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Michelle Millar Fisher
Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Rita A. Fucillo, New Venture Media

Kelly Hays, Director, Gifts of Art,

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Erica Hirshler and Harry Clark,

Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Frederick Ilchman

Chair, Art of Europe, MFA Boston

and Cassandra Ilchman

Diane & David Jensen, Jensen Fine Arts

Joyce Kulhawik and Andrew Cohen

Dean Lahikainen, Carolyn and Peter Lynch Curator of American Decorative Art, Peabody Essex Museum

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Ethan W. Lasser, Chair, Art of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Pamela and Nicholas Lazares

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Meghan Melvin, Sharf Curator of Design, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Thomas Michie, Senior Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture, MFA, Boston

Tim Montgomery, New Venture Media

Nancy Netzer, Director,

McMullen Museum of Art

Molly Campbell Palmer,

Benoit Mizner Simon & Co. Real Estate

Shannon Pastuszak, Publisher

Modern Luxury Interiors Boston

Melanie Perillo, Publisher,
Boston Design Guide

Debra Petke, Danforth Art Museum at FSU

B. Eric Rhoads, Publisher,
Fine Art Connoisseur

Michael Roffi

Roffi Salon

 Joshua Rose, Editor, American Fine Art and American Art Collector

Daniel and Phyllis Ross

Maria Pope Rowley, 
J.Hilburn Men’s Clothier

Jacqueline Sideli

John Smiroldo, Publisher,

Antiques & Fine Art and InCollect

Don Sparacin, Publisher,

The Magazine Antiques

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Matthew Teitelbaum, Ann and 

Graham Gund Director, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Susan Cohen

Tracey Thomas, Publisher
 Venü Magazine

Paula Tognarelli, Executive Director,

Griffin Museum of Photography

William Trifone

Roberta Tripp

Christine Gilchrist Tuttle,
Christine Tuttle Design

Rebecca Velazquez, Publisher,
SOCO and New England Monthly 

Sally Wilson and John Kelsey,

Wilson Kelsey Design 

Amy Weed, Compass

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As of  October 7, 2019 

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Mary Cassatt, “Portrait of Master St. Pierre as a Young Boy”, 1906,  Oil on canvas.  Courtesy of Guarisco Gallery (DC)

Kim VanDerHoek “Burning Bright”, Oil on panel. Courtesy of Principle Gallery (SC & VA)

Theodore Wendel, “A New England Garden”, Pastel.  Courtesy of Avery Galleries (PA)

Pablo Picasso, “Peintre, Modèle au Chapeau, et Gentilhomme", 1968, Etching on paper. Courtesy of Colm Rowan Fine Art (NY)

Susan Hunter Petree (RI), "Sunset", Oil and Cold Wax Medium on wood panel.

Julie Beck, “A Vessel with Two Hands”, Oil on canvas/panel. Courtesy of Bowersock Gallery (MA)

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