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Dear Friends and Colleagues,

As we embark on our 153rd year of the Artists' Fellowship, I amhonored to take the reins from our beloved former President, BabetteBloch, who after eight years of service in this capacity, has decided to stepdown. We owe a tremendous debt to Babette for her leadership anduncompromised vision that has led the Fellowship to the strongest point inits remarkable history. Fortunately for us, she will remain on the board as atrustee and advisor continuing her family's enduring support.

As my tenure begins as President, I am delighted to report that ourendowment continues to maintain strength with the total value of ourinvestments up in the last fiscal year thanks to our devoted 2009-honoredtreasurer Pamela Singleton. Under her careful stewardship Pam keeps uswithin the guidelines; a particularly difficult feat during these recessionarytimes. We want to thank Babette for orchestrating a much-neededrenovation of our office space at the Salmagundi Club. With the help ofPam Singleton, Naomi Campbell and craftsman extraordinaire James VonOttenritter, we now have a beautiful and functional office.

Responding to a barrage of requests each month, I want to thank ourincomparable board of trustees for their rectitude and compassion innavigating through these meetings. In addition, I personally appreciatetheir support and guidance as well as their insights to maintain the strengthof the Fellowship.

This past year the Fellowship has benefited from the generosity ofMichael Gormley, editor of American Artist/Artist Daily, who arranged forNelson Shanks to demonstrate at the National Arts Club in conjunctionwith the Weekend with the Masters in New York City. Member DianneBernhard was the subject with the proceeds benefiting the Fellowship. Wewant to extend our heartfelt thanks for the generosity of spirit exhibited bythese individuals.

Last year we helped 70 artists during times of crisis by providing themwith aid. As we look towards the future, our mission remains steadfast as aplace for artists to turn in times of emergency or hardship. In light of this, Iam often amazed by how few artists know about the good work that we do.We rely on you to maintain your membership and help us reach our goal ofcontinuing to spread the word among friends and colleagues about theimportance of supporting the Fellowship. I personally urge each and everyone of you to bring in one new member this year by downloading amembership application www.artistsfellowship.org and sending it to afriend. Just as important if you have an artist friend in need, please directthem to us; we are here to serve our community of artists.

Finally, please come and help us celebrate as we will honor KnoxMartin and Storm King Art Center at the Annual Awards Dinner at theManhattan Penthouse on October 24th, 2012.In Fellowship,

Wende CaporalePresident, The Artists’ Fellowship

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newsletterThe Artists’ Fellowship honors one of the world’s most celebrated open-

air sculpture parks, Storm King Art Center, at our October 24, 2012Annual Awards Dinner. The Storm King Art Center is arguably the

godfather of the modern sculpture park movement. As the second oldestAmerican sculpture park (after Brookgreen Gardens), Storm King was the firstto provide a pastoral landscape to view important post-war American sculpture.

Storm King was founded by the late Ralph E. Ogden and H. Peter Stern.Established first to display Hudson River School painting, by 1961 the founderswere committed to modern sculpture. A major 1966 purchase from the estate ofsculptor David Smith was followed by acquisition of the works of other modernmasters including Alexander Calder, Mark di Suvero, Henry Moore, LouiseNevelson, and Isamu Noguchi. Storm King’s proximity to New York City madeit a point of destination for the sculpture world’s cognoscenti, eventually helpingto spawn public and private sculpture gardens around the globe.

The Fellowship will be pleased to welcome H. Peter Stern’s son, John P.Stern, who served as a long-time trustee of Storm King, and has been Presidentand CEO of Storm King Art Center since 2008. He oversees all aspects of theArt Center, with a focus on ensuring its vital future.

Also honored will be David R. Collens, who joined Storm King Art Centeras curator in 1974, and has served as Director and Curator since 1976. In thiscapacity he is responsible for Storm King’s permanent collection of more than100 works, in addition to coordinating the maintenance of its natural landscape.He plans and manages the installation of sculpture, organizes special exhibitions,and supervises sculpture conservation. Much of his work entails working closelywith artists and their representatives.

Storm King has always been uniquely concerned with how sculpture inter-acts with the sculpture park’s magnificent landscapes. The collection is sited on500 fabulous acres with pristine panoramic views throughout.

Legendary Director of the National Gallery and long time board member ofStorm King, J. CarterBrown paid Storm Kingthe ultimate compli-ment some years ago.According to Brown,“There is no questionthat among sculptureparks of the world,Storm King is king.”

For nearly 60 years, Knox Martin hasproduced a singular visual languagewith roots in both the old Masters and

that great upheaval in mid-20th-centuryAmerican Art known as Abstract Expressionism.

Martin came of age as an artist in the 1950’s, alongside some of theleading lights of that era, such a Jackson Pollock and Willem deKooning. But he has at intervals in his career wrestled with the ghostsof the Western tradition, most recently in a series of unframed draw-ings called “Caprichos” in honor of the fever-dream etchings of Goya.

A geometric abstractionist, Knox Martin has been active in NewYork City notably at the forefront of the muralist movement,including a huge 1970 mural painted on the wall of the BayviewCorrectional Facility on West 19th Street.

Martin’s work has been in exhibitions in the last decade at theJanos Gat Gallery, ACA Galleries, National Academy of Design, ArtStudents’ League, Woodward Gallery and Salander-O’Reilly Galleriesin New York.

Martin taught at Yale Graduate School of the Arts, first as visitingcritic in art and then as Professor of Art. He also taught at New YorkUniversity, the University of Minnesota, and the International Schoolof Art in Umbria, Italy.

According to Ira Goldberg, the Executive Director of the ArtStudents League and one of our AF Trustees, “Knox Martin is one ofour most esteemed teachers we have. He’s taught at the league for 40

years and continues tooffer students greatincites through hisMaster Classes.”

Knox comes froma long tradition ofgreat teachers. Histeacher Will Barnetwas also a recipient ofthis medal in 1978 andis on our board ofAdvisors.

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Robert Kipniss had solo exhibitions of recentpaintings at Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco, CAand Franklin Riehlman Fine Arts, NYC. The Townand Country Club of Hartford, CT mounted a soloexhibition by Christine Ivers; she received theBest in Show at the SACA, the Middletown ArtGuild, and the Pastel Painters of Cape Cod awardat the CT Pastel Society’s nationally juried compe-tition. The Hospital for Special Care conferred theChairs Award on Ms. Ivers and her painting,“Traveling Through Time,” which received theEdwin Austin Abbey Award and was acquired bythe Salmagundi Club for the permanentcollection. Ms. Ivers is presently serving a secondterm on the Board of the Lyme Art Associationand as an elected Artist of New Haven Paint andClay. For several decades, Florian K.Lawton’s paintings of Amish culture here in theUnited States have been collected internationally.The Amish Heritage Museum in Middletown,Ohio, which opened in June of 2012, will show-case some of Mr. Lawton’s finest works from pub-lic and private collections. The Norfolk Librarymounted a solo exhibition of Dee Shapiro’s workin Norfolk, CT. Ms. Shapiro’s work was featured ina group exhibition entitled “PAPARAZZI” at theJanet Kurnatouski Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. TheMarshall Lekae Gallery in Scottsdale, AZ is nowrepresenting Roger Rossi, who is serving on theBoard as the head of Advertising and Publicity forthe Allied Artists’ Annual Newsletter. Art in PublicPlaces commissioned with Nova SoutheasternUniversity the “Mako Shark Fountain” a 16-foottall bronze by Kent Ullberg Studios, along with“Underground Shark,” unveiled in January 2012 onthe new Palm Beach Gardens Campus where theshark’s head and tail rise from the pavement. TheMako shark is the University’s mascot. In March,Joyce Zeller’s portrait of the Honorable AlfredWeiner was unveiled and hangs in the RocklandCounty Courthouse. An active member of theNew York Print Club, Dr. Julian Hyman recentlyhosted an event with guest, Fred Mershuer.William Behnken exhibited with the Society ofAmerican Graphic Artists Council in the members’exhibition at the Projects Gallery in Philadelphia,PA and in the Winter Contemporary Exhibition atthe Old Print Gallery in Washington, DC. The 69thAnnual Audubon Artists of America exhibit award-ed Takayo Noda the Silver Medal for Graphics.Hofstra University hosted a retrospective of worksby Burton Silverman entitled “The HumanistSpirit.” His solo exhibition opens in June at theSalmagundi Club. Supreme Court Justice Elena

Kagan commissioned Mr. Silverman to paint herportrait. Annette Blaugrund has been touringcities across the nation, talking about her newbook, Dispensing Beauty in NYC and Beyond, thebiography of a cosmetic company and the ground-breaking woman who launched it in the UnitedStates. Lori Putnam received Plein Air awards in2011 in Georgia, Florida, California and Ireland.She was nominated and is acting Vice President ofthe American Impressionist Society after coordi-nating their National Exhibition in Carmel, CA.The Charles Allis Art Museum in Milwaukee, WIselected Sandra Murzyn’s painting “Bon Bons,Rehearsal Group #3” from her Nutcracker series,which was selected for the ADA 2013 calendar.Frederico Seve Gallery presented a major retro-spective of works on paper by Fanny Sanín fromFebruary 21, 2012 through April 2012. Curated byPatterson Sims, it was entitled “Fanny Sanín:Drawings and Studies: 1960 to present,” with theexhibition catalogue text and essay by Patterson

Sims. Ms. Sanin’s exhibition received an ovationand Peter Plagens featured a large reproduction ofone of the exhibit’s works in a review in the WallStreet Journal’s March 2, 2012 edition. Artist cura-tor Barbara J. Sussman, who is putting togetheran exhibition for ASA landscape in GreenwichVillage, is currently issuing an open call forART. Afterwards, the exhibition will travel toNewark’s Genesis Clinton Hill Apartments.Cartier’s 2012 Holiday collection selectedMs. Sussman’s painting, “Winter Sledding.”Harmon Meek Gallery in Naples, Floridamounted an exhibition entitled “Europe byWatercolor” which featured paintings byTimothy J. Clark. Mr. Clark’s workswere included in an exhibition “ForeImages in Golf and Art” in Augusta,GA and at the Morris Museum of Art.The Laguna Art Museum in southernCalifornia will host a solo exhibition ofwork by Mr. Clark in November of2012. Jack Faragasso, instructor at TheArt Students League of New York, will bea part of an exhibition Oct 10 toNovember 7, 2012 celebrating outstandingworks by artists, illustrators and designerswho taught and studied at the League.

Van Bernhard won an award at the National ArtsClub annual members’ show for his pastel painting.On October 15, 2011 through March 9, 2012,Partners in Human Resources International hosteda solo exhibition of 24 works: paintings, etchingsand aquatints by Agnes Orioles. Salmagundi Clubof NY conferred Resident Artist status on RobinJane Solvang. She exhibited in the annual SmallWorks Exhibition at the Delaware Arts Allianceand in the annual Floral Exhibition in NYC. HardPress Editions released an autobiography byLoring W. Coleman AWS, who recently turned93. The book, Loring W. Coleman, Living andPainting in Changing New England, is chock full ofstories and color reproductions. Rhoda Sherbellspoke about “The Artist’s Journey” at the PortraitSociety of America’s Annual Conference, May 24-27 in Pennsylvania. Ms. Sherbell’s “Portrait of aYoung Woman” won Best in Show at the NationalArts Club members’ exhibition. The annual IBEWArt Show invited Naima Rauam as guest artist inFlushing, NY. Ms. Rauam mounted a solo exhibi-tion in Nov. 2011 at the South Street Seaport.Former Artist’s Fellowship President, AlvinPimsler, received a telephone call from a Londonpublisher requesting permission to publish a full-color illustration that the artist had done for SaksFifth Avenue. Mr. Pimsler received a pro bonocopy of the published book with the artworkhandsomely reproduced. Miriam Katz is current-ly designing a mural at a new fitness center inAugusta, Georgia and the theme is The Tour DeFrance 20’x15’ C’est magnifique, on your mark, getset, go!!!! Leonda Froehlich Finke was this year’sinvited sculptor, featured in contemporary sculp-

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Richard A. Heinrich, Kiev Shift, 2012; welded steel, 15" x 15" x 7"

ture at Chesterwood in Stockbridge, MA. Theexhibition assembled a collection of large worksout-of-doors and smaller bronzes in their indoorfacilities and gift shop. Ms. Froehlich’s work wasalso in a group exhibition at the CenturyAssociation and the Medialia Gallery in midtownManhattan. In December 2011, the ShermanOaks Galleria & Arc Light Cinemas installed anexhibition of works by Nathan Horner, viewedby approximately 25,000 theater patrons. Theexhibition is nearly sold out and has been extend-ed through the summer of 2012. Cornelia Seckelis now an honorary Vice President and Boardmember of the National Association of WomenArtists Inc. Anthony Panzera participated in the2012 National Academy Annual Exhibition. TheSamuel Dorsky Museum of Art and the StudioSeven Gallery will present a solo exhibit of Mr.Panzera’s works. Meanwhile, private artbroker, Eleanor Jacobs, formerly of Hirschl andAdler Galleries and co-founder of the Earth ShoeCompany published an article entitled, “It’sGenerational, OK, But Is It Art?” “Contrary tofashion, art may take two or three generations toprove its status and true artistic merit by passingthe scythe of father time,” quoted from TheLitchfield County Times on Friday, February 3,2012. The Katonah Museum presented work byNYU, SVA and ASL instructor, Sherry Camhy.Ms. Camhy also exhibited at the National ArtsClub, The Contemporary Art Expo and was fea-tured in a cover story in the Jerusalem Report. Sheteaches privately in her West Chelsea studio. OnFebruary 13, 2012, after a major retrospective atthe National Academy of Design, President BarackObama conferred the National Medal for the Artson Will Barnet at the White House. Mr. Barnetalso received the National Order Legion of HonorChevalier at the French Embassy on January 19,2012. Among his assignments in 2011, DavidBeynon Pena painted Mrs. Georgeanne Nixon,Ms. Danille Saxe, as well as Augustus SaintGaudens for the Players Hall of Fame. Mr. Penaalso serves as instructor at the Visual Art Center ofNJ and the Rock Gardens Inn at Sebasco Estates inMaine. Babette Bloch’s 15.5’ high stainless steel“Vitruvian Man” sculpture will be dedicated inAugust 2012. This year, she has exhibited her“Reflecting Nature” series in CT, MA, FL, CA, SCand Greece and was awarded the NAC Sculptureprize for “Lilies” in the 113th Annual ExhibitingArtists Show at the National Arts Club in March.In December 2011, Babette Bloch stepped downafter 8 years of serving as President of the Artists’Fellowship. On our new and present watch,Wende Caporale was elected President of theArtists’ Fellowship, an honor she accepts with a

mixture of pride and humility. Ms.Caporale received the DianneBernhard Art Spirit Award GoldMedal for Pastel in the SalmagundiClub Members’ Show in 2011. Shealso received the Leonard J.Meiselman Award for sculpture inthe Allied Artists of America exhibitat the National Arts Club. Ms.Caporale’s painting “Portrait of anArtist” was awarded a Certificate ofExcellence at the Portrait Society ofAmerica Conference in Philadelphiawhere she participated on a panelentitled “The Artist’s Journey” withRhoda Sherbell. Everett RaymondKinstler’s wonderful one manexhibit at the Norman RockwellMuseum will travel to TheBellarmine Museum at FairfieldUniversity June through September.He received an Honorary Doctoratefrom the Academy of Art Universityin San Francisco, CA in May 2011.His portrait from life of formerPresident George W. Bush was exhib-ited at the Union League Club, NYC and Mr.Kinstler’s portrait of Christopher Plummer will bepresented at the Players Club in October 2012.The Art Institute of Chicago has acquired a secondwork on paper by Jimmy Wright for its perma-nent collection. Mr. Wright will instruct a pastelpainting workshop in July 2012 at Ox-Bow inSaugatuck, MI. Maria Chatzinakis was part of aresearch project on the Amazon River in Peru

where she photographed, counted and entereddata on wading birds, macaws, pink and grey dol-phins, and fish of various types. Sandra Shaw’sdrawing, “December,” was included in the JamesA. Michener’s Art Museum in Bucks CountyExhibit titled, “Bucks County and the PhiladelphiaSketch Club,” celebrating the 150th Anniversary ofthe Philadelphia Sketch Club, Artists Past andPresent. Jeffrey Berman took first place in theFloral Exhibition at the Salmagundi Art Club in

2011. He will be teaching watercolor and drawingat the Newark Museum of Art. Jane Hatter hasmoved to Santa Fe painting the beautiful scenesand catching the spectacular light. She’s workingon her new web page. Kathy Anderson won firstprize at the Salmagundi President’s DinnerExhibiting Artist Show, and the Southwest ArtAward of Excellence at the American ArtInvitational Show at Saks Gallery in Denver, CO.She is proud to have been included in this year’sAmerican Masters Exhibition at the SalmagundiClub in May. Ms. Anderson will also be paintingwith the Plein Aire Painters of America in JacksonHole, Wyoming. Gina Takatch created andlaunched her new online fashion site, HealmyJeans. She is also part of the production team forCake Theater, a chic off-off Broadway ensembleduring their run of “Speaking in Tongues.” MarionLerner-Levine’s exhibitions include the PrinceStreet Gallery, Chelsea, NY: “Marion Lerner-Levine and Falvia Bacarella: Prints and Drawings”April 26 - May 21, 2011, New York Society ofEtchers 10th Anniversary Show, National ArtsClub in November 2011, Federation of ModernPainters and Sculptors, “The Lower East Side” atthe Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, EducationalAlliance, Oct/Nov 2011. Dianne B. Bernhardpresident of the National Arts Club has spent thispast year working hard towards preserving thepast and securing the future of this 114 year-oldinstitution. Carolyn Jundzilo-Comer (continued)

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participated in an exhibition at Ariet Amieitiae inAmsterdam with the Salmagundi Club. She willmount a solo exhibition in Nahant, Massachusetts.Paul Jenkins’ solo exhibitions include recentpaintings in the Redfern Gallery in London and TheCenter d’Art Contemporain Bouvet-LaudbaySaumur. Mr. Jenkins participated in group exhibi-tions including “Fragments - Modern andContemporary Collage” at ACA Galleries, NYand “Un Art Outré, Artistes Auteur de MichelTapie” at Christies in Paris, France. Continuingwith his teaching and as Director of theTheodore Roosevelt Association, Terry Brownlabors at the helm to help fund and maintain sitessuch as Sagamore Hill and the USS TheodoreRoosevelt aircraft carrier. Painting up a storm, JaneHaher has established a new website and invitesyou to visit at wwwHaherFineArt.com. BarbaraAllen will be the featured artist at the FramationsGallery in St. Charles, MO. The exhibition, enti-tled “Faces and Places,” will include 30 pieces.Last September, Al Barker, a New Jersey nativewho has been busy with several plein aire events inNew England, won Mystic Seaport’s AnnualInternational Maritime Exhibitions’ Purchase prize,a show that traveled to Maine, Connecticut, Ohio,Pennsylvania, Virginia and Maryland. The perma-nent installation “The Chronicles of Beauty” at theHotel Eventi, NYC by Barbara Nessim is onpermanent view in the hotel’s third floor ball-room. Ms. Nessim is presently completing workon a book with David Galloway, art writer andcritic that will focus on five decades of her work.Bernyce Alpert Winick has proposed a retro-spective of her life’s work Music in Art andPhotography to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’snew curator, Sheena Wagstaff, who arrived from

the Tate Modern this past April. Ms. Winick hasrecently completed a book entitled 88 Years ofNutrition, Exercise and the Arts. Anna MarieTrombetta was selected by The LowerManhattan Cultural Council as one out of fourhundred applicants for the Artist Summer Institute,a five-day intensive workshop, and was awardedthe National Academy’s printmaking scholarship.Ms. Trombetta exhibited in the Society ofAmerican Graphic Artists Annual at the Old PrintShop May 19 through June 29, 2012. FormerArtists’ Fellowship President RobertSeyffert exhibited works in the Wave at theChester Art Center in Nova Scotia, Canada inAugust 2011. The National Arts Club’s MembersExhibition 2012 featured Mr. Seyffert’s painting,“NC Wyeth’s 1941 Ford on the Brandywine.” JoeDunn and wife Anne celebrated their 60 years ofmarried life at the Summit Hotel where, not verylong ago, they had their reception. In attendance atthe 60th Anniversary celebration, were 70 guests,including their great grandsons. Marcia Raffinstalled “Columns 1, 2, 3,” 10’ 9” in height atTyler State Park. Ms. Raff’s clay sculpture, 8 incheshigh, entitled “Apple Green Finger Labyrinth” wasawarded the Salmagundi Club Sculpture Award. In2011, Charles Yoder’s solo painting exhibitionentitled “Still Waters and Shadows” was shown atthe Narthex Gallery of St. Peter’s Church in NewYork City. His work was also included in fourgroup shows: “Gesterschatten” at Dada PostGallery in Berlin, Germany, “Ghost Shadows” atElga Wimmer Gallery in New York City, “Patterns”at Green and Blue Gallery in Stowe, VT, and “TheEternal Landscape” at the Salmagundi Club in NewYork City at which he received the Alden BryanMemorial Prize. Kathy Hayes has moved to a

new address: 34 Schermerhorn Street, BrooklynNY 11201. Alberta Cifolelli exhibited in “ManyVisions, One Community” at the MattatuckMuseum, CT. The museum selected his work forinclusion in its permanent collection. MarcMellon’s over life-size bronze, “Eve,” was acquisi-tioned by the Chi Mei Museum in Taiwan. Mr.Mellon’s 10’ family group sculpture, “Generations”was unveiled at Morse Life in West Palm Beach,FL. This July Marc will be Master Sculptor inResidence at Chesterwood, in Stockbridge, MA.Back in Manhattan, the 92nd Street Y will unveilMellon’s bust of Nobel Peace Prize recipient ElieWiesel. Bruno Lucchesi unveiled a lectern at theSan Jacopo Church in Lucese, Italy. He was com-missioned for two portrait busts of Heads ofSchool at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford,CT. The Hartford Hospital Art Collection acquiredseveral of Mr. Lucchesi’s works. He also taught atthe Scottsdale Artists School in Arizona. ConnieConstance Carr exhibited portraits and land-scapes at the First Methodist Church in FortCollins, CO. For the third year, Ms. Carr received

the Blue Ribbon at the Fountain Hills CulturalCouncil Annual Competition. The Jack Lestradestudio is open to visitors by appointment only.Phone: (33) 5 652 12362. Address: Lapeze 46150,Montgesty, France. The National Association ofWomen Artists exhibited a painting by Edith RaeBrown. Ms. Brown served as Juror for the AlliedArtists of America and the Township of NorthHempstead’s Annual Recycled Art Contest. TheCenter of Photography and the Moving ImageMuseum featured works by Naomi Campbell intheir exhibition, “Seeing Ourselves,” March 8 tillApril 8. Richard A. Heinrich’s welded steelsculpture “Big Zoot Suit,” ten feet high, will be onthe campus of the Dwight-Englewood School for ayear and the steel piece, “Jazzoo II” will be part ofa group summer show at the Wilderstein House inRhinebeck, New York. In addition, the eleven-footstainless steel sculpture, “Such Sweet Thunder,” ison loan to the Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst,Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. “Such SweetThunder,” was part of the Sculpture by the Seaexhibitions in Sydney and Perth, Australia last year.Sharon Sprung received the William AdolfBougereau Award for her oil on panel, “RecliningGirl.” Ms. Sprung presented at the Portrait Societyof America’s Fourteenth Annual Conference andwas honored by the National Academy Museum

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Edith Rae Brown, Voyager, acrylic on canvas, 48" x 24"

and School of Fine Art. Elizabeth Torak’s exhibi-tion “The Feast Venus: an exploration of theartist’s process” at the Wilson Museum inManchester, VT featured a 5’x 9’ figure painting,accompanied by ten oil studies and 37 drawings.Christmas 2011, found Joan Rudman, formerPresident of the American Watercolor Society,accepting the very first N.S.D.A.R and theAmerican Heritage Society’s First Woman in theArts Award in recognition of her outstanding tal-ent, career as a watercol-orist, instructor, authorand service to her artisticcommunity. The awardwas conferred on Ms.Rudman, the very firstrecipient who received abeautifully designed cus-tom-crafted pin at aChristmas luncheon host-ed by the AmericanHeritage Society’s StateChairman. Several of Ms.Rudman’s works were onexhibit at the presenta-tion. The Award is opento all women contributingservice to the arts in alldisciplines Music, Dance,Theater and Literature.The National Arts Clubawarded Rosalee O.Isaly the Visual ArtsAward in the 113thExhibiting Artists Member’s Exhibition 2012. TheNovember issue of American Art CollectorMagazine featured works by Jane BloodgoodAbrams, who had work included in the exhibition“Exercises in Unnecessary Beauty” at the DorskyMuseum in New Paltz, NY. Moreover, Ms. Abramsworks were purchased by Marist College,Poughkeepsie, NY. On May 17, 2012, TheSalmagundi Club hosted a book signing forAlexander Katlan, who has just released anew book, Artist Letters and Sketches from theAlexander Katlan Conservation and Fine ArtCollection. Mr. Katlan recently conserved andrepaired paintings by Greek/American artist,George Constant (1892-1978) for the Long IslandMuseum in Stony Brook, NY. Currently thesepaintings are on exhibition in the show “LongIsland in Bloom” from March 2 to July 8, 2012 atthe Stony Brook Museum. Included in the 2012Delta National Small Print Exhibition and theBradbury Gallery in Jonesboro, AR were works byLinda Adato. Ms. Adato’s work was shown con-currently at the Old Print Gallery in Washington,

DC. Michael Budden won five major awards thisyear; three from the Salmagundi Club, one at theAllied Artists of America and one at the CoryellGalleries Juried Exhibition in Lambertville, PA. TheHughes Gallery in Boca Grande, Florida presenteda solo exhibition of Mr. Budden’s work. DawnWhitelaw recently was one of the featuredinstructors for the Susan K. Black Foundation inWyoming. Ms. Whitelaw participated as a facultymember at the Portrait Society Conference in

Philadephia, PA. Rolland Golden’s exhibition“River Reverie” opened at the Anderson Museumin Ocean Springs, MS after traveling to four muse-ums. The Pastel Society of America will cele-brate its 40th Anniversary at the Annual JuriedExhibition “The Enduring Brilliance of Pastel.”

Entry deadline is July 6. The exhibition runsSeptember 4-30, 2012. The famous Paris book-store Shakespeare & Co, is the subject of GibbsM. Smith’s most recent painting in honor ofowner George Whitman, who passed away thisyear. The store is still in operation under the direc-tion of his daughter, Sylvia Beach Whitman. In2011, Arthur Harrow won several awards foroils and gouache and served as jury chairman at

the National League of American Pen Women’sShow. The US Coast Guard in Cape May, NJ con-ferred the Artist of the Year award on sculptorCarey Boone Nelson at the Staten IslandMuseum’s Gala. Ms. Nelson’s bronze monumentof Douglas A. Munro is undergoing renovation.The Catherine Lorillard Wolfe MembersExhibition, showed her work “The Moon AlsoRises.” In April, the Century Association presentedan exhibition, “Century Masters,” featuring paint-

ings and sculptures ofMorton and Luise Kaish.Melissa Kaish presented acommemorative documen-tary on the work of herextraordinarily talented par-ents during the exhibit. TheArts Council of Watsonville,CA included work byDeborah Winiarski in anexhibition entitled“Contemporary EncausticWorks.” The San AntonioMuseum of Art’s Harmon &Harriet Kelly Collectionacquired “EdgierCurator.” Thomas Torakwon the Academic Artists’Gold Medal, the Gilmore andRomans’ Award at the AlliedArtists and the Jack RichesonAward at the AmericanArtists’ Professional LeagueExhibition. The American

Abstract Artist International 75th AnniversaryExhibition in Paris, France, featured workby Judith Murray who also exhibited at theAmerican Academy Invitational Exhibition.Sundaram Tagore Gallery presented a solo exhi-bition of Ms. Murray’s work in 2012. AsPresident and founder of the CT Society ofPortrait Artists, CSOPA, Jeanine C. Jacksonhosted 15 master portrait painters and partici-pants from around the country in February 2012at a festival that honored Daniel E. Greene. Ms.Jackson’s portrait of Commodore Susan Fisherwas selected for their group exhibition, “Faces ofWinter.” The National Museum of Sports present-ed Susan B. Durkee with the 2011 Founders’Award for her portrait of Jim Thorpe. Ms.Durkee’s painting “Anticipation” won the MargerySoroka Award at the Salmagundi Club. TheNational Art’s Club purchased the “Portrait ofTram” by Bob Palevitz at the Pastel Society ofAmerica’s annual show. The painting will be onexhibit at the Butler Institute of American Art inOhio. John Angelini was included in (continued)

Sharon Sprung, Silk & Taffeta, oil on panel, 50" x 30"

“When I returned from the hospitaltoday, your check was waiting in my

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Officers: Wende Caporale, President; Babette Bloch,President ex officio; Charles Yoder, Vice President; Pam Singleton, Treasurer; Joyce Zeller, CorrespondingSecretary; Priscilla McCarthy, Recording Secretary; Peggy Kinstler, HistorianTrustees: Edith Rae Brown, Terrence Brown, FranDembitzer, MD., Franklin Feldman, Ira Goldberg,Richard Heinrich, Morton Kaish, Tim Newton, David Beynon Pena, Claudia Seymour, Sharon SprungAdvisory Panel: Will Barnet, Everett Raymond Kinstler,Anthony Kaufmann, Patterson Sims, Milton Esterow,Marc Mellon, Clare Romano, Robert Riedinger

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the first edition ofModern Masters of Miniature Art inAmerica and the Miniature Artists ofAmerica group exhibition thatopened in Moscow, Russia in 2012.Mr. Angelini’s work “Window”received the Windsor and NewtonAward at the Allied Artists ofAmerica Exhibition. Arnold J. Davis,as Chairman of the Board of theDirectors Company, produced a newplay, “Poetic License,” by JackCanfursa and directed by VanBergmann, which opened in February2012. The group intends also to pro-duce a play by Jessica Provenz entitled“True Art.” The Hartford Hospital ArtCollection acquired several of AnnRosow-Lucchesi’s works. She alsotaught sculpture with Lori Putnam atthe Scottsdale Artist’s School inArizona. Ilene Skeen, founder ofBarebrush.com, launched in 2006,presents original art, painting, draw-ing, sculpture and photographicworks, orbiting around the nude as asubject, is still going strong with aninternational Art Calendar Contestand the Nude of the Month. Checkthem out on the web. Daniel E.Greene will be honored by the OilPainters of America in Denver in June,2012 and was honored in February atthe CT Society of Portrait Artists forLifetime Achievement. His diptych“Man Flying a Kite” has been acquiredby the Butler Institute of AmericanArt. Greene had a one-man show atEleanor Ettinger Gallery in Octoberin NYC and he will be exhibiting inChina with ACOPAL. His work isfeatured in a French book on pastelentitled Les Maitre du Pastel.Greene’s pastel “51st Street” won aSilver Medal in the SalmagundiMembers’ Show in November.FlauntYourPhotos.com, PeggyKinstler’s design studio, is currentlyworking on two projects: a photobook about the Susan Kathleen BlackFoundation’s first decade of artistworkshops (http://www.susankblack-foundation.org), and a website forfantasy author Natalia Swann.

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Jimmy Wright Charles Yoder Mohammed A. Yousef Judy Francis Zankel

IN MEMORY

Wende CaporaleIn memory of Gordon WetmoreRichard CheneyIn memory of Stanley BleifeldJane FoldsIn memory of Bernhardt Crystal

Daniel GreeneIn memory of GordonWetmore

Jonathan HardingIn memory of Stanley BleifeldKathy HayesIn memory of David LevineGwen PierIn memory of Stanley BleifeldJoyce ZellerIn memory of Rose Zeller

IN HONOR

Gerson LeiberIn honor of Will BarnetJanet Gurian Lippmann In honor of Will BarnetWilliam Luke MD In honor of John StobartMargaret McClureIn honor of Everett Raymond Kinstler

Barbara NessimIn honor of Will BarnetMary Margaret Peel In honor of John StobartIlene SkeenIn honor of Barebrush.comRuth WeinbergerIn honor of Edith Rae Brown

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Guests were led into the magical dining areafor the delicious dinner with breathtaking viewsof the city. President Babette Bloch spoke to theaudience of 175 members, colleagues andfriends to once again share the mission of theArtists’ Fellowship and thanked everyone fortheir support. Ira Goldberg spoke of the hard-ship encountered by the artists who seek aid cit-ing medical issues, fires, eviction and the feelingof “swimming upstream alone” while encourag-

ing the crowd to offer continued supportthrough their auction purchases. Ira also readpoignant excerpts from aid recipients’ thank youletters sent to the board which acknowledgedthe hope as well as credibility the aid provided.

The awards presented were to honor thesculptor Stanley Bleifeld with the BenjaminWest Clinedinst Award and The StobartFoundation and John Stobart, its founder, withthe Gari Melchers Memorial Award. Havingspoken to Bleifeld earlier in the year, Babetteconveyed his delight in this recognition from hiscolleagues. Sadly, Bleifeld passed away prior tothe awards dinner. In attendance was hiswidow, Naomi (Nicky) Bleifeld, who graciously

accepted the award on his behalf. StanleyBleifeld was President of the National SculptureSociety for three years and remained connectedfor 24 years. Speaking about her experience asthe Director of the National Sculpture Society,Gwen Pier recalled a recurring theme in “howmany regarded Bleifeld as their best friend.”Nicky shared how honored she felt to receivethis award for her husband and referred to himas “a generous fountain of knowledge.” Shespoke of Bleifeld as someone who “opened upnew worlds and possibilities” for the work of hismany students and had enriched their lives. Hisworks were described as “approachable, veryhuman” which led his good friend BurtSilverman to say that Bleifeld’s “strength in hishumanity speaks to his humanity.”

John Stobart our other honoree, was intro-duced by Don Demers. In attendance wasAlastair Dacey, a beneficiary of a StobartFoundation grant, who eloquently discussed hisexperience while conveying his gratitude toStobart. Stobart acknowledged being over-whelmed by the award and shared with theaudience his tumultuous background; a less-than illustrious academic career followed bynine years of schooling at the Royal Academy ofArt in London. Although he was never pre-

pared to be an entrepeneur, his career beganwhen he arrived in New York in 1970. Stobartachieved tremendous success with the KennedyGallery and later sold prints of his paintingsthat were acquired by private collectors.

Stobart’s astonishment in his success moti-vated him to form the Stobart Foundation tohelp students at the critical time between leav-ing art school and launching their careers.

The evening sparkled with many illustriousguests including past honorees, advisors andfriends including Will and Elena Barnet,Everett Raymond and Peggy Kinstler, MarcMellon, Dianne and Van Bernhard, DanielGreene, Nelson Shanks and Michael Gormley.We also wish to extend our thanks to boardmember Ira Goldberg for soliciting the artistswho donated their work and organizing thatportion of the event. Special thanks to EdithRae Brown, dinner chairwoman, who organizedand coordinated the dinner along with NaomiCampbell, our administratve director. We wantto express a heartfelt thank our to our verygenerous donors Jack Richeson & Company,Capital Bank, Frank and Rita Castagna and ananonymous donor for their sponsorship of theevent. The silent auction and donations fromguests will go towards the Fellowship endow-ment.

Our next awards dinner will be held onOctober 24, 2012 at the Manhattan Penthousewhere we will honor Knox Martin and StormKing Art Center. Please join us for anotherspectacular evening and continue your supportfor our community of artists.

Another delightful evening of celebration for the Artists’ Fellowship, Inc.occurred at the Manhattan Penthouse in September in New York City.Festively attired guests arrived to enjoy a lavish cocktail hour

punctuated by a silent auction of paintings and prints donated by renownedartists. Those who arrived early had the chance to choose from a diverse arrayof artwork, a rare opportunity indeed. We are very grateful to the artists who sograciously donated their work to benefit the endowment: Perry Alley, WillBarnet, Robert Baxter, Timothy Clark, Mary Beth McKenzie, Sharon Sprung,John Stobart, Gary Sussman, Costa Vavagiakis and John Varriano.

Babette Bloch presenting John Stobart with medal

AF President Babette Bloch presents Nicky Bleifeld with award honoring Stanley Bleifeld

AF 153rd AnnualAwards Dinner

S A V E T H E D A T E !

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2012Manhattan Penthouse80 Fifth Avenue (SW corner 5th Ave at 14th St.) New York, NY 10011

AF 152nd Anniversary Celebration HonorsStanley Bleifeld and The Stobart Foundation

and John Stobart