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Romantics to ModernsBritish Watercolors and Drawings from the Collection of BNY Mellon

Sponsored by BNY Mellon Wealth ManagementJanuary 22-May 1

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January, February, March 2011

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Director’s Welcome

Dear Friends,

MFA members belong to a museum family that anyone can join. You feel the excitement when you walk through the door, as you are greeted by helpful staff, volunteers, and docents, as you move through the sensitively organized galleries and exhibitions, and as you explore the changing panoply of exhibitions through the year.

Thousands of visitors discover us in the heart of St. Petersburg and take away lasting memories from our collection—from Claude Monet and Berthe Morisot, to Georgia O’Keeffe and Jimmy Ernst; from ancient masterworks of Greek potters and painters, to masterpieces by the great Southwestern ceramicist Maria Martinez.

2011 will bring new special exhibitions to our community. When you visit the Museum, you’ll discover extraordinary British watercolors from the Collection of BNY Mellon, selections from an amazing gift of photography from Ludmila and Bruce Dandrew and Chitranee and Dr. Robert Drapkin, Latin American art, and contemporary ceramics. Each show is an adventure. You will find more information about the exciting displays as you read the Mosaic or explore our website.

We’re launching an important new service to area educators and schools. All school children who visit the MFA on a class visit will go home with a family pass. We want our students to return with their families for a free visit. We want them to know that this is their museum, and to be able to show it off with pride.

We could not sustain our efforts without the support of our members. We are deeply grateful for your involvement in the life of the Museum and hope you will help us bring in new members and visitors, for you are our best ambassadors. As the Museum moves toward its 50th anniversary, we have so much to celebrate and so much to do.

Sincerely,

Kent Lydecker

On the cover:John Constable (British, 1776-1837)

Hampstead (1833)Watercolor over graphiteCollection of BNY Mellon

Cover Design: Thaddeus Root

Museum News New HoursBeginning January 1, the Museum offers new hours to better serve our visitors:

Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.Sunday, noon-5 p.m.Only closed Thanksgiving and Christmas Day

Adults, $17Seniors 65 and older and military with I.D., $15Children 7 and older and college students with I.D., $10Children under 7 and Museum members, Free

Adult Groups of 10 or more, $12 eachStudent Groups (including college) of 10 or more, $4 eachPlease call 727.896.2667, ext. 210, to schedule a group tour.

More than 10,000 students tour the Museum annually. Every student in a group tour will now receive a family pass. We want the entire family to return for a free visit.

The Museum welcomes an old friend, the Salvador Dalí Museum, to its new home on the waterfront. Visitors can walk or take an easy trolley ride from the Dalí to the MFA, as well as to The Chihuly Collection and the Morean Arts Center. Each collection is dramatically different and makes St. Petersburg a leading arts destination.

New Acquisition

Fémina (French, active early 1900s)Child in Eastern Costume (1910)AutochromeGift of Ludmila and Bruce Dandrew from The Ludmila Dandrew and Chitranee Drapkin Collection

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ExhibitionsBritish Watercolors: A World ApartRomantics to Moderns features approximately 70 works on paper by 49 of Britain’s most gifted artists from the mid-1700s through 1935. Represented artists include John Constable, Thomas Gainsborough, Samuel Palmer, John Ruskin, Walter Sickert, and J. M. W. Turner. The exhibition provides a close to comprehensive history of 200 years of British watercolors and drawings—a first for the Tampa Bay area. Because of their fragility, these works are rarely exhibited.

British watercolors are among the most striking ever produced, and the landscapes in the Collection of BNY Mellon are especially impressive. They range from pre-Romantic works by Gainsborough to those by modernists like Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell (author Virginia Woolf’s sister) of the influential Bloomsbury Group.

J. M. W. Turner’s ethereal Barnard Castle (late 1830s) is a rare find outside of museum collections, and Constable’s Hampstead (1833) reveals the artist’s almost scientific study of clouds. Turner and Constable are two of the most accomplished landscape painters in the history of art. Moreover, Francis Danby’s majestic View near Killarney (about 1818) epitomizes Romanticism, and John Sell Cotman’s luminous River Landscape (1806) anticipates the French Impressionists.

Romantics to Moderns encompasses a number of large-scale watercolors. David Cox’s mysterious Evening (about 1811) and Peter DeWint’s evocative Distant View of Lowther Castle, Cumberland (about 1836) are two of the most dramatic works in the exhibition.

The British landscape tradition and interest in pastoral subjects continued well into the mid-nineteenth century. Samuel Palmer’s A Farm near Prince’s Risborough, Buckinghamshire (about 1844) and Alfred William Hunt’s Ullswater at Midday (1863) are striking examples. John Ruskin, an influential critic, as well as artist, and Turner’s champion, is represented by two watercolors, including an exuberant view of Venice.

John Nash’s stylized and brilliantly colored compositions carry the British landscape into the modernist era. His works demonstrate the impact of French Modernism on British artists at the turn of the twentieth century.

Romantics to Moderns is the Museum’s first exhibition devoted to British art of the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. The MFA is deeply grateful to Ray Ifert, Regional Director of BNY Mellon Wealth Management, and to Brian Lang, Curator of the Collection of BNY Mellon, for sharing these impressive works with the public.

The Mellons: An American Story with a British Twist

The Mellons are part of the fabric of American history and philanthropy, with strong ties to British culture. Banker and statesman Andrew Mellon (1855-1937) not only made a fortune, but also served as Secretary of the Treasury and ambassador to London. He also became one of America’s greatest art collectors and founded the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. He never saw his vision take form, however, dying only months before the museum had been approved by Congress.

His father’s death allowed Paul (1907-1999) to pursue his own interests more fully. He did not want to be a financier, preferring the study of British literature and art.

Like his father, though, Paul gained great satisfaction in acquiring art and sharing it with the public. He took up his father’s mantle and nurtured the Gallery’s development for more than six decades. He and his second wife Bunny gave more than 1,000 works to the collection.

Paul Mellon was drawn to British art and culture throughout his life. He founded the Yale Center for British Art at his alma mater and its affiliate institution in London, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Inspired by the legacy of the Mellon family and Paul’s encouragement, BNY Mellon began building its collection of British art in 1980. The works on paper especially reflect Paul Mellon’s influence and interests and are highly respected in the art world.

William Callow (British, 1812-1908)Chiaia, Naples (n.d.)

WatercolorCollection of BNY Mellon

Exhibitions

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Familiar and Fantastic: Photographs from the Dandrew-Drapkin DonationFebruary 19-June 12

This choice exhibition celebrates a landmark donation in the history of the Museum. Drawn from major gifts over the last two years, Familiar and Fantastic spans more than 100 years and features nearly 100 images. They are part of The Ludmila Dandrew and Chitranee Drapkin Collection, one of the most expansive and finest photography collections in American private hands.

The photographs were originally collected by Dr. Robert L. and Chitranee Drapkin, longtime friends of the Museum. The Drapkins have donated and lent many works to the Museum over the years, and Dr. Drapkin is a former trustee. Mrs. Dandrew has artistic talent and interests, including a love of painting and photography. After moving to the area, she and her husband Bruce acquired a large part of The Drapkin Collection. In 2009, the Dandrews gave approximately 9,500 images to the Museum, dating from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. The Drapkins added 2,900 photographs in 2010.

According to Chief Curator Jennifer Hardin, “this collection is rich in imagery by unknown or itinerant photographers, Americana, photojournalism, documentary photography, portraiture, and landscape. It 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. We are profoundly grateful for the gifts from The Ludmila Dandrew and Chitranee Drapkin Collection, which takes our photography collection to an entirely new level.”

Familiar and Fantastic is the first in a series of exhibitions that will bring these extraordinary images and the history they embody to a wider audience. Highlights encompass daguerreotypes by Mayall, a rare ambrotype by Mathew Brady, and albumen portraits by Nadar and Etienne Carjat. There is a stunning albumen print from Louis-Emile Durandelle documenting the construction of the Paris Opera and a selection of significant images from an entire album on the laborious building of the

Dreams and Realities: Latin American Prints, Drawings, and Watercolors, 1950-1991Through February 6

The 30 works in Dreams and Realities offer a fascinating introduction to the vitality of Latin American art. Among the artists represented are José Luis Cuevas and Francisco Zúñiga (Mexican), Roberto Matta (Chilean), Carlos Poveda (Costa Rican), Omar Rayo (Colombian), Antonio Seguí (Argentinean), and Julio Larraz, a Cuban émigré.

A number of the works in the exhibition combine both representation and abstraction. Matta’s Don Quixote, plates IV and VIII (1991), and his miniature folding-book, The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha of Matta (1991), are amazing. They bring to mind the illustrated books of the Miguel de Cervantes masterpiece and its foundational role in Spanish-language literature. The Don’s influence has been widely felt in Latin America, and Matta uses the novel as a point of departure.

Moreover, the prints by Zúñiga are exquisite. His figures are sculptural; he is indeed one of Mexico’s best known sculptors. He presents indigenous women as noble, quiet, centered on the earth. He then reveals his dexterity in this exhibition with the delicate Head of a Woman (1976).

Dreams and Realities has many other compelling works, such as Antonio Seguí’s exuberant Man with Tie (1966). These gems point to the expanse of the Museum’s growing collection.

Alphonse Plumier (Belgian, 1819–1877)Modest Mussorgsky and Friend (late 1860s)

DaguerreotypeGift of Dr. Robert L. and Chitranee

Drapkin from The Ludmila Dandrew and Chitranee Drapkin Collection

Antonio Seguí (Argentinean, born 1934)Man with Tie (1966)

Watercolor with gouache and crayonGift of Irwin and Marcia Hersey

© Antonio Seguí

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Panama Canal. Margaret Bourke-White’s photogravures, made during a daring trip to the Soviet Union in the mid-twentieth century, are especially memorable.

Famous figures from the past can be seen in many formats: a half-plate daguerreotype of Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky, a double daguerreotype portrait of Britain’s Prince Frederick and his children, an ambrotype of Cornelius Vanderbilt, an artistic portrait by Alvin Langdon Coburn of author Henry James, and carte de visites of Victor Hugo, Benjamin Disraeli, and George Bernard Shaw.

Equally compelling are unknown sitters and subjects whose identities are now lost to history. Among them are dignified portraits of African Americans and Native Americans, engaging images of children, a professional map-maker, moving documents of male friendship, portraits of anonymous tradespeople, and photographs of astonishing sideshow performers.

In addition, a rare landscape daguerreotype by Gage documents rural Vermont, and pristine albumen prints reveal the splendor of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. Also included are photographs of the American West by F. Jay Haynes and Carleton Watkins, as well as images of North Africa, the Near East, and the Holy Land. Especially prominent are photographs of Egypt and its antiquities by Felice Beato and a panorama of Constantinople that measures over 10 feet in length. Fine art photographs by Alfred Stieglitz and Karl Struss are also part of the exhibition.

Familiar and Fantastic premieres unforgettable photographs and a magnanimous gift to the Museum of Fine Arts.

PLACE: Contemporary Ceramics by Jennifer Forsberg, Sarah Lindley, and Jeanne Quinn March 5 – April 24

Contemporary artists have taken ceramic art in entirely new directions. They have created large-scale ceramic sculptures, often inspired by more traditional forms, such as Don Reitz’s Skirted Vessel in the Sculpture Garden. The three artists represented in this exhibition express and interpret notions of space through three complementary approaches: form, structure, and air. Their inventive use of layers and elevations immediately engages the viewer.

Forsberg’s weighty forms seem both “earthbound” and of the body, Lindley’s structural forms are elevated on mounds and platforms, and Quinn’s pieces are hung from above creating an ethereal quality. The three combined into a single gallery offer a journey into a new sense of place.

Forsberg’s Proportions (2010) demonstrates her desire to solidify the intangible. Amorphous forms are combined in response to an internal dialogue.

Lindley’s structural renditions of “small town” mills and contaminated watersheds loosely frame past hopes for prosperity and defy expectations of the ceramic medium. The fragility displayed by her use of clay suggests the increasing decline of American industry.

Quinn suspends porcelain objects that reference decorative elements. In Everything is Not as it Seems (2009), chandelier-like hangings invite

participation in an environment which offers access into

Louis-Emile Durandelle (French, 1839-1917)Stonemasons, the Paris Opera (about 1867)

Albumen printGift of Ludmila and Bruce Dandrew from The Ludmila

Dandrew and Chitranee Drapkin Collection

Jennifer Forsberg (Swedish, born 1970)Proportions (2010)

Clay, wood, iron, cotton, thread, and plexiglass©Jennifer Forsberg

Sarah Lindley (American, born 1973)Abandon (Plainwell Paper), 2008

Stoneware, wood, and metal©Sarah Lindley

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Store SpotlightMuseum Store Named the Area’s Best by the duPont Registry

The Store is ushering in the new year and the height of the season with many inventive gifts for people of all ages. Aminals are for the young and the young at heart. Made of 100 percent organic materials, they are inspired by the imagination of children and their drawings.

Pantone® mugs and espresso sets bring an artistic touch to the daily ritual of coffee and tea-drinking. They feature the iconic Pantone® Matching System® colors, usually displayed in a handy fan. They were created in the 1960s for graphic design and have never looked better than on these durable mugs.

Enter the Store and find many more artistic gifts. Buy one for yourself. Don’t forget: Museum members receive a 10 percent discount.

Corporate, Foundation, and Government Partners

The Museum is grateful to the following organizations for supporting exhibitions,

educational programs, and operations.

President’s Circle ($100,000 and above)The Stuart Society of the Museum of Fine Arts

St. Petersburg Times*Bright House Networks*

Progress Energy

Benefactors ($50,000 - $99,999)Pinellas County Tourist Development Council, Visit

St. Petersburg/Clearwater, and the Board of Pinellas County Commissioners

BNY Mellon Wealth Management*

Patrons ($25,000 - $49,999)Renaissance Vinoy Resort & Golf Club*

Sponsors ($15,000 - $24,999) Wells, Houser & Schatzel, P.A.*

Holland America Line*Tampa Bay Magazine*

Partners ($10,000 - $14,999)Bank of America

U. S. Trust

Sustainers ($5,000 - $9,999)Northern Trust

State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs,

and the Florida Council on Arts and CultureTampa Bay metro*

Westminster Communities of St. Petersburg

Associates ($2,500 - $4,999)The Cowles Charitable Trust

Freedom SquareTech Data Corporation

Contributors ($1,000 - $2,499)Olympia Catering & Events*

*In-Kind Donation

Please contact Director of Development Judy Whitney at 727-896-2667, ext 250, or via e-mail, judy@fine-arts.org,

to learn about the benefits of becoming a corporate or foundation partner.

Diana B. DorkenAnn RascoeMary Puffer Salo

Nena ShepherdMartha and Jim SweenyJeffrey M. Villet

another possible reality for the viewer.

The Museum has a long history of presenting ceramic art, including contemporary experimentation. PLACE was chosen as a Concurrent Independent Exhibition by the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA). It is being offered in collaboration with the national conference, set for March 30-April 2 in the Tampa Bay area.

Jeanne Quinn (American, born 1966)Everything is Not as it Seems (2009)

Porcelain, wire, and electrical hardware©Jeanne Quinn

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Follow us on Twitter, find us on Facebook, and check our website for continual updates on education programs. Support for these programs is provided in part by The Stuart Society, Tech Data, an anonymous donor, the MFA Education Committee, The Princess Martha, and Westminster Communities of St. Petersburg.

Adult Programs

Gallery Talks and Lecture

Free with Museum admission.

Saturday, January 22, 3 p.m.: Brian J. Lang, Curator of the Collection of BNY Mellon, will introduce the exhibition of British watercolors in a Gallery Talk on opening day. After working for private galleries and curating exhibitions as a consultant, he joined BNY Mellon in 1996 to oversee its extensive art collection.

That collection spans four centuries and includes British watercolors and drawings from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, nineteenth-century American paintings and prints, and contemporary art. Mr. Lang also manages BNY Mellon’s Audience Development Fund, which helps small to mid-size nonprofit arts groups in the Pittsburgh area market their programs and broaden their audiences. He holds his B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh, where he pursued philosophy, Western European studies, and French.

Sunday, February 20, 3 p.m.: During her 15-year tenure at the Museum, Chief Curator Dr. Jennifer Hardin has studied and shown images from the recent, exceptional gift of photography from Ludmila and Bruce Dandrew and Chitranee and Dr. Robert Drapkin. She will introduce some of the most important in this Gallery Talk.

Dr. Hardin brought a noteworthy background in the medium to the MFA. She studied with Peter Bunnell, a pioneering photography scholar at Princeton University, where she received her doctorate. She held a Mellon Foundation Internship in the Department of Photography at The Princeton Art Museum, where she worked on the Clarence White and Minor White archives. She has been a champion of the Museum’s photography collection and has been instrumental in taking it to new heights. This gift is a landmark event in the Museum’s history.

Sunday, February 27, 3:30 p.m.: Dr. Scott Wilcox, Chief Curator of Art Collections and Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Yale Center for British Art, will explore “Like a Cremona Violin: The Appreciation of Technique in British Watercolors.” His lecture, sponsored by BNY Mellon Wealth Management, will focus on the distinctive qualities of this great British tradition. The technique of virtuosos of the medium

Education such as J. M. W. Turner has been compared to that of the most talented musicians.

Dr. Wilcox joined the Center in 1982 as Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings and received his Ph.D. in art history from Yale University three years later. Among the many exhibitions he has organized are British Watercolors: Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (1985), Victorian Landscape Watercolors (1992), Lucian Freud: Etchings from the Paine Webber Art Collection (1999), and Edward Lear and the Art of Travel (2000).

He has co-organized The Line of Beauty: British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (2001) and Papermaking and the Art of Watercolor in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Paul Sandby and the Whatman Paper Mill (2006).

Most recently, he curated Sun, Wind, and Rain: The Art of David Cox (2008). This was the first significant look at Cox and his contributions to British landscape painting in more than a century. Dr. Wilcox is currently spearheading the campaign to bring the catalogue of the Center’s collection online.

Saturday, March 5, 3 p.m.: Ceramic artists Jennifer Forsberg, Sarah Lindley, and Jeanne Quinn will discuss their work in PLACE in a Gallery Talk on opening day.

Ms. Forsberg has shown her work extensively in her native Sweden, as well as in the United States, Europe, and China. She has completed residencies at the European Ceramic Work Center in the Netherlands, the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Maine, and the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana. The Bray Foundation is one of the world’s leading centers for contemporary ceramics, with Ms. Forsberg represented in the collection. She holds her M.F.A. in ceramics from the School of Design and Craft at the University of Göteborg.

Ms. Lindley’s work was selected in 2009 for the CEBIKO World Ceramic Biennale in South Korea and for the NCECA (National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts) National Clay Biennial at the Arizona State University Art Museum. Also that year, her work was included in group exhibitions at the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Oregon College of Art and Craft.

Ms. Lindley was chosen for an Arts/Industry Residency at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Wisconsin in 2003 and 2010. She holds her B.F.A. from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and her M.F.A. from the University of Washington. Both are major schools for the development of ceramic artists and art. Ms. Lindley is an Associate Professor of Art at Kalamazoo College in Michigan.

Ms. Quinn is another exciting young ceramic artist. She has exhibited her work widely, including at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, and abroad, at galleries and museums in Sweden, Denmark, and Taiwan. She has been a resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation, the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire, the International Ceramic Center in Denmark, and the Kahla Porcelain Factory and the Ceramic Center-Berlin in Germany.

Her work has been reproduced in Sex Pots by Paul Matthieu, Confrontational Ceramics by Judith Schwartz, and A Ceramic

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Continuum: Fifty Years of the Archie Bray Influence by Peter Held, among others. She holds her B.A. cum laude in art history from Oberlin College and her M.F.A. in ceramics from the University of Washington. Ms. Quinn is Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado.

Sunday, April 10, 2 p.m.: Chief Curator Dr. Jennifer Hardin brings an impressive background to her Gallery Talk on British watercolors. She has curated a number of exhibitions on European art during her 15 years at the Museum. Two have received significant critical attention: Abraham Bloemaert (1566-1651) and His Time and Monet’s London: Artist’s Reflections on the Thames, 1859-1914, which included works by British artists.

Nan Colton

The Museum’s popular performing artist-in-residence continues her imaginative presentations. An experienced actress and director, Ms. Colton writes her own scripts, inspired by special exhibitions, the Museum collection, and themes and people related to both. She will perform for the “Coffee Talks,” with a repeat performance for the “Encore” programs. (See Family Programs.)

Coffee Talks

For People 55+Sponsored in part by

Second Wednesday of the month. Free with Museum admission.Refreshments at 10 a.m., Ms. Colton’s performance in costume at 10:30, and general docent tour at 11:15.

January 12: “Georgia O’Keeffe”Ms. Colton portrays the great American artist in one of her signature pieces, as she humanizes the legendary and formidable O’Keeffe. The Museum has three early important paintings by O’Keeffe.

February 9: “Victorian Point of View”Complementing the British watercolors exhibition, Ms. Colton becomes a Victorian lady sharing historically accurate insights into the era.

March 9: “Mina Miller Edison and Gardening in Florida” This new script celebrates Art in Bloom, as Ms. Colton looks at the contributions of the wife of inventor Thomas Edison.

The History of Art

Six public lectures, Saturdays 10 a.m.-noon, Marly RoomAll six lectures, $80 for Museum members, $100 for non-members

Nan Colton as Georgia O’Keeffe

Individual lectures, $20, if seating is available. The topics and lecturers follow:

January 29: Art in the Age of Revolution: Nineteenth-Century European Art, Chief Curator Dr. Jennifer Hardin.

February 5: Later Asian Art and the West, Dr. Daphne Rosenzweig, Professor of Asian Art at the Ringling School of Art and Design.

February 12: From Independence to Empire: American Art, 1776-1900, Dr. Hardin.

February 19: Twentieth-Century European and American Art, Dr. Matthew McLendon, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art.

February 26: Great Moments in the History of Photography, Dr. Hardin.

March 5: Pre-Columbian Art of the Americas: Mesoamerica and the Andes, Dr. Maya Stanfield-Mazzi, Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Florida.

Friends of Decorative Arts

FODA programs and trips enhance understanding of the decorative arts and provide an ideal opportunity to make friends with similar interests. Annual dues are $20, in addition to Museum membership. To join, please contact Membership Coordinator Steve Hack at 727.896.2667, ext. 248, or steve@fine-arts.org. Non-FODA members can attend programs for $5, plus MFA admission.

Noted collector Jim Sweeny will examine “Russel Wright Pottery: Modernism for the American Home” on Tuesday, January 11, at 2 p.m. The works Mr. Sweeny and his wife Martha donated to the Museum are select examples that have

Dr. H. Barbara Weinberg, The Alice Pratt Brown Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, presented The Wayne and Francis Knight Parrish Lecture on December 9. Welcoming Dr. Weinberg (second from left) were (left to right): President of the Board Seymour Gordon, docent Susan Gordon, and Jack and docent Maryanne Koch.

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Create your own work to take home, drawing on art in the collection and special exhibitions.

January 15: Create “tissue paper” flowers inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe’s Poppy.

February 19: After viewing Wedgwood ceramics, use Model Magic to create your own special piece.

March 19: Work with the talented ceramic artists from the Morean Arts Center to fashion your own melting bug from clay.

never been shown as a group. They will be displayed for the first time at this FODA program. Mr. Sweeny will share why he and his wife began collecting these objects, offering a very personal view of some of the most popular ceramics of the twentieth century.

General Docent Tours

The Museum’s exceptional docents conduct tours of special exhibitions and the collection. Take advantage of the opportunity to learn more about art and the MFA. Free with Museum admission Monday-Saturday at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. On the second Wednesday of the month, the general tour begins at 11:15 a.m. To schedule a special or “foreign language” tour, please call 727.896.2667, ext. 210.

Family Programs

Super Saturdays

Enriching the lives of families is an MFA tradition. Join us the third Saturday of the month for Discovery Hour, Encore, and MFA: Hands-On, designed for people of all ages, especially children. Super Saturdays are free with MFA admission. No registration is necessary.

Discovery Hour

11 a.m.-noon, third Saturday of the month.

Explore the MFA. You will find an artwork in the collection using a Museum “treasure hunt” sheet. You can also handle related, contemporary touchable objects.

January 15: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Poppy (1927)

February 19: English Wedgwood

March 19: Still Life with Flowers, attributed to Jan Brueghel the Younger

Encore

11:30 a.m.-noon, third Saturday of the month

Nan Colton’s performances will lead you on a journey through art and history.

January 15: “Georgia O’Keeffe”

February 19: “Victorian Point of View”

March 19: “Mina Miller Edison and Gardening in Florida”

MFA: Hands-On!

1:30-2:30 p.m., third Saturday of the month.

2010 Board of TrusteesMr. Jackie Joyner Jr.Mr. Howard Mills, J.D.Mrs. Fay Mackey NielsenMr. David L. Robbins, Esq.Ms. Ellen StavrosMrs. Carol A. UphamMr. Harold E. Wells Jr.Mrs. Jean Giles WittnerMr. William Knight Zewadski,

Esq.Mrs. Glenn Mosby, President,

The Stuart SocietyDr. Kent Lydecker, Director

Honorary TrusteesMrs. Isabel Bishop, Honorary

Memorial TrusteeMr. Charles HendersonMrs. Nomina Cox HortonMr. Peter Sherman

Executive CommitteeMr. Seymour A. Gordon,

Esq., PresidentDr. Edward A. Amley,

President-ElectMrs. Mary L. Shuh,

SecretaryMr. Cary P. Putrino, J.D.,

TreasurerMr. Ron PetriniMr. Robert B. StewartMr. William H. Stover

TrusteesMr. Robert ChurutiMr. Gary DamkoehlerDr. Gordon J. GilbertMrs. Royce G. HaimanMr. Robert L. HiltonMr. Troy W. Holland, Esq.Mrs. Hazel C. Hough

Family Day and the Fourth Annual

Sunday, May 1, 1-4 p.m.

The MFA welcomes families and everyone else to this farewell party for the British watercolors exhibition on the Museum’s North Lawn. You can produce giant watercolors, help transform the Museum’s sidewalk into a community sketchbook, and enjoy surprise performances. You can also see the special exhibition on its last day. One Free Child with each paid adult courtesy of The Stuart Society.

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Affaires d’ Art These diverse events provide wonderful opportunities to see good friends and to make new ones. All are open to the public. You do not have to be a Stuart Society member to participate. These programs are selling out quickly. The following still have openings. Please call reservations chair Charlotte Kendall at 727.823.8924. Jane Beam and Betty Shamas are the co-chairs.

Wednesday, January 12, noon: Maj Jong Lessons (the American version) and Lunch. Hosted by Lynell Bell and Bonnie O’Connell. $35 per person.

Thursday, January 13, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.: New Year, New You with Sidney Chaney. Clothes, Closets, and Colors to create a New Look for the New Year. Hosted by Sidney Chaney, Jean Getting Irwin, and Charlotte Kendall. $50 per person.

Saturday, January 15, 9:30 a.m.-noon: Undoing the Stress Mess Interactive Workshop. Conducted by Behavioral Consultant and Fortune 500 Coach Ann Witt with more than 20 years of experience. The nature of stress, its negative effects, what makes us vulnerable, and how we can manage it. Self-discovery assessments, fun simulations, relaxation techniques, and healthy, stress-less smoothies. Participants will receive a workbook, a relaxation audio program, and plenty of techniques to practice at home. Hosted by Kathy Doermer, Liz Hienkle, and Mary Maloof. $35 per person.

Friday, January 28, 11:30 a.m.: Neiman Marcus Tampa Bay. Informal modeling, lite bites, and wine. Hosted by the 2010–2011 Stuart Society Provisionals. $25 per person.

Tuesday, March 8, 6-9 p.m.: Bunko, Beads, and Mardi Gras Madness. Cajun supper, wine and revelry, and a rousing round of Bunko. Wear Mardi Gras purple, green, and gold for a fun night out on our own “Bourbon Street.” Hosted by Celia Chapura, Liz Heinkel, Susan Lahey, and Jennifer Rogers. $45 per person.

Friday, March 18, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.: Bus Trip to the Winter Park Art Show and Lunch at the Park Plaza Hotel. Hosted by Jane Beam, Pat Campbell, Louise Chapin, Elaine Hearn, Muffie Hoche, Parsla Mason, and Betty Shamas. $75 per person.

Friday, March 18, 4-6 p.m.: Introduction to Ikebana with wine

The Stuart Society of the MFApresents

Inaugural

Wine Auction and GalaFriday, February 11

Cocktails and Silent Auction, with music by the Alan Thomas Jazz Group, 6:30 p.m., Marly Room

Dinner, 8 p.m., and Live Auction, 9:30 p.m., Glass Conservatory

Sponsored by:

John F. Francis (American, 1808-1886)Still Life: Glasses of Wine, Cognac and Biscuits (1851)

Oil on canvasCollection of BNY Mellon

Patrons will be invited to a wine-tasting party with a spectacular penthouse view of Tampa Bay, Sunday, February 6, at 6 p.m.

The Silent Auction will feature selections from the area’s most outstanding wine collections. The Live Auction, conducted by Eliza

Osborne of Sotheby’s, will offer groupings of wine for every taste, as well as gourmet dinners, getaways, and many surprises.

Reservations: 727.896.2667, ext. 197

Visit www.fine-arts.org and click on Wine Auction and Gala for more information.

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Christen Stephens and Executive Chef Tyson Grant from the Parkshore Grill (far left) presented “Lunch on the Lake” October 14 at the home of Affaires d’Art co-chair

Betty Shamas. Enjoying the demonstration, food, and company were (left to right): Janet

Raymond, Mary Wyatt Allen, Louise and John Garrigues, Fran Risser, and Donna Painter.

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and appetizers on Boca Ciega Bay. Class includes a Kenzan (needlepoint holder) and vase and flowers. Hosted by Jeanne Houlton and Susan Hicks. $50 per person.

Thursday, March 31, 6:30 p.m.: A Night in Havana. Latin music, libations, and a paella buffet dinner and other specialties by Chef Jo González-Hastings of the Habana Café. Hosted by Beegie Arnes, Betty Bowley, Diane Fair, Helene Hardick, Priscilla Hobby, Shirley Kaylor, Mary Shuh, Isabel Schoenberg, Maritza Smith, Julia Sorbo, Edie Spies, and Carol Upham. $75 per person.

Saturday, April 9, 6 p.m.: Shuffle, Shuffle, Shuffle on down to the legendary St. Petersburg Shuffleboard Courts for an evening of food, fun, spirits, and competition. Hosted by Patty and Elliot Gassner, Jane Randall Kirby, Gail and Fred Razook, Carol and Tom Treichel, and Margaret and Emory Wood. $35 per person.

Monday, April 11, 11 a.m.: Contemporary Sculptural Ceramics introduced by St. Petersburg gallery owner Mindy Solomon. Hosted by Cathy Collins and Glenn Mosby. $50 per person.

Fall Fashion Show

This elegant event, featuring the ESCADA Resort Collection, was a sell-out, drawing 400 guests to the Grand Ballroom of the Renaissance Vinoy Resort and Golf Club. The designs revealed the influence of traditional Japanese prints. The table settings, with Redman Steele’s centerpieces, were another high point. The title sponsor was Neiman Marcus; the presenting sponsor, Raymond James Financial; and the bronze sponsor, Great Bay Distributors.

Dimity Carlson and Fay Mackey Nielsen were the chairs. Gail Phares was the reservations chair. They were assisted by a dedicated committee: Joann Barger, Debbie Baxter, Linda Berset, Anje Bogott, Martha Buttner, Lynn Cox, Blair Crimmen,

Eleanor Davidov, Mary Lou DeVoe, Susan Harvard, Camilla Kilgroe, Shannon Knowlton, Parsla Mason, Elise Minkoff, Glenn Mosby, Mary Paul, Carol Piper, Gail Razook, Jane Schaumberg, Candy Scherer, Whitney

Shouppe, Connie Smith, Susan Taylor, Carol Treichel, Debbie Utz, Ann Vickstrom, Elizabeth Walters, Louise Weaver, and Lisa Wells.

The table patrons were:

Designer: Joann Barger, Dimity Carlson, Doyle Wealth Management, Patricia Miller, Glenn Mosby, Donna Nagelsen, Northern Trust, Sabal Trust Company, Mary Shuh, and Whitney Bank.

Model: Debbie Baxter, Linda Berset/Comegys Insurance Corner, Lois Fivian, and Dale Wybrow.

The individual patrons included:

Couture: Judy Jourdan and Elaine Newman.

Designer: Beegie Arnes, Irene Athos, Jacqueline Ley Brown, Martha Buttner, Kim Chambers and Cloud Nine, Bonita Cobb, Cathy Collins, Linda Colman, Diane Fair, Helene Hardick, Priscilla Hobby, Patricia Hoel and Cloud Nine, Mary Ellen Howells, Marjorie Johnson, Lisa Kirk, Julie Klavans, Monica MacFawn, Mary Alice McClendon, Barbara McCoy, Lea Newman, Jane Nunnelly, Mary Paul, Mary B. Perry, Demi Gathering before the Fashion Show were (left

to right) co-chair Dimity Carlson, Mary Booker Wall, Jacqueline Ley Brown, and Guna Carr.

Sitting at the Raymond James table were (clockwise, left to right): Edie Dressler, Marcy Shuck, Carole Merritt, Mary James, Jean D. Irwin, Virginia Bitler, Carol Whaley, and April James.

Raymond James Financial was the presenting sponsor.

Patty Masin, General Manager and Vice President of Neiman Marcus at International Plaza, introduced the ESCADA

Resort Collection. Neiman Marcus was the title sponsor.

Sitting (left to right): Stuart Society President-Elect Elise Minkoff, Development Coordinator Mary Szaroleta, and Director of Development Judy Whitney. Standing (left to right): Stuart

Society President Glenn Mosby, Director Kent Lydecker, Assistant Director Roger Zeh, and Lennie

Bennett, art critic for the St. Petersburg Times.

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Rahall, Patricia Rosignol, Isabel Schoenberg, Jan Sher, Karen Sher, Dr. Starr Weihe Sherman, Julia Sorbo, Mary Jo Swiggett, Cathy Unruh, Carol A. Upham, Mary Ann Will, and Andrea Wilson.

Model: Elaine Hearn/Worth Collection, Marilyn (Muffie) Hoche, Donna Painter, Rita Peters, and Renee Savage/Worth Collection.

Fashionista: Chris Agee, Cecile Berko, Carolyn Bond, Kimberly Bond, Brenda Camarinos, Susan Churuti, Lynn Cox, Barbara DeMaire, Mary Lou DeVoe, Sunny Endicott, Ellen Fogel, Patty Gassner, Sally Habermeyer, Helen Hameroff, Kally Harvard, Susan Harvard, Jeannine Hascall, Bettina Herman, Susan Hicks, Chris Hilton, Hazel Hough, Dawn Hulett, Camilla Kilgroe, Pat Knippers, Shannon Knowlton, Susan Levine, Suzanne MacDougald, Mary Ann Marger, and Monica Mason.

Also Parsla Mason, Ruthanne McLean, Diane Morton, Pamela Newman, Fay Mackey Nielsen, Bonnie O’Connell, Katie Pemble, Gail Phares, Carol Piper, Gail Razook, Fran Risser, Jennifer Rogers, Arlene Rothman, Iris Salzer, Jane Schaumberg, Betty Shamas, Whitney Shouppe, Kim Silverstein, Susan Singleton, Barbara Godfrey Smith, Connie Smith, Susan Taylor, Gene Towery, Carol Treichel, Frances Weaver-Nohren, Sally Wheeler, Betty Wood, and Kristine Youmans.

The underwriters were:

Diva: Fran RisserTrendsetting: Glenn Mosby and Barbara Godfrey SmithClassic: Eleanor DavidovChic: Elise Minkoff, Arlene Fillinger Rothman, and Nancy H. ThomasCasual: Smelia Damjanovich, Janet Raymond, Jan Stoffels, Frances Weaver-Nohren, and Lisa Wells.

The Plaza of HonorSpots are still available for engraved bricks on the striking plaza at the Bayshore entrance to the Hazel Hough Wing. The dimensions are: 4 x 8” with up to three lines of engraving and up to 20 spaces per line, $125, and 8 x 8” with up to six lines, $250.

Order forms are available at the Membership Table near the Welcome Desk. You can also contact chairs Parsla Mason (727.898.9178 or pkm2702@aol.com) or Mary Booker Wall (727.821.8212 or mhbwall@gmail.com). Return with your check, made payable to The Stuart Society, to Parsla Mason, One Beach Drive S.E., #2702, St. Petersburg, FL 33701.

Art in Bloom 2011March 19-23

Art in Bloom has become one of the Museum’s most popular spring traditions. The more than 50 floral interpretations respond to works throughout the MFA, as well as to entire galleries and spaces.

The designers are both professionals and talented hobbyists. Many are members of local garden clubs. Jan Stoffels, who has an artistic eye and has been a key Art in Bloom volunteer for many years,

is chairing the installation. Whitney Bank is the presenting sponsor, and The Alvah H. and Wyline P. Chapman Foundation is the major underwriter. Stuart Society member Mary B. Perry initiated Art in Bloom at the MFA in 1997.

The floral designs will go on view Saturday, March 19, and will be up through Wednesday, March 23. The designers will refresh the flowers throughout the event. Many will be on hand to discuss their inspiration and approach during “Conversation with the Designers” on Sunday, March 20, from 2-4 p.m.

The preview party, chaired by Kim Brett, Carol Russell, and Nancy Rutland, begins the celebration on Saturday, March 19, and the luncheon will be held the closing day, Wednesday, March 23, at the Vinoy Sunset Ballroom. The speaker will be the internationally acclaimed floral designer Sylvia Anne Bird, a past medal winner at the Chelsea Flower Show. Becky Wells and Gail Pyhel are the chairs.

Major Designer Headlines Art in Bloom LuncheonInternationally accredited designer and judge Sylvia Anne Bird will offer a presentation/demonstration at this year’s luncheon on Wednesday, March 23, at 11:30 a.m. in the Vinoy Sunset Ballroom. A freelancer working in the United States, Britain, and throughout Europe, Ms. Bird is in great demand. She has been a double medal-winner at the Chelsea Flower Show and had the honor of escorting Queen Elizabeth at the 2006 and 2009 shows.

In the U.S., she served on the design team for the second inauguration of George W. Bush. She has also been on the design team of the Society of American Florists for nine political conventions. She has lectured frequently at the New York Botanical Gardens and has been a featured designer at the Philadelphia Flower Show.

Ms. Bird was inducted into the American Institute of Floral Designers (AIFD) in 1991 and has served on the national and regional boards, as well as being elected to top offices. She has made presentations at the AIFD National Symposium and at regional meetings of the organization. She is a current board member of the Florida State Florists’ Association. Ms. Bird holds a teaching degree from Kingston University in England.

Last year, Marion Crane created this dramatic floral design for the

Kathryn B. Stenquist Gallery.

The models turned the ESCADA designs into walking works of art.

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The Stuart Societycordially invites you to

The Art in Bloom Preview Party

Saturday, March 19, 6:30-9 p.m.Be one of the first to see this year’s floral interpretations.

Cocktails and Heavy Hors d’Oeuvres Elegantly Casual

The Art in Bloom LuncheonPresentation by internationally acclaimed floral designer

Sylvia Anne Bird

Wednesday, March 23, 11:30 a.m.The Vinoy Sunset Ballroom

Jan Brueghel the Younger (Flemish, 1601-1678)Still Life with FlowersOil on wood panel

Gift of Dr. Gordon and Adele Gilbert

Presenting Sponsor:

Major Underwriter:The Alvah H. and Wyline P. Chapman Foundation

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For more information, please call 727.896.2667, ext. 167.

Dinner & JazzFriday, January 14, 6-9 p.m.

Celebrate the beginning of the weekend in one of the most

spectacular settings in the area. Enjoy the smooth sounds

of jazz and dine on exquisite cuisine in the MFA Café. A cash

bar for beer and wine will be available. Reservations are

strongly suggested by calling 727.896.2667, ext. 258, or

727.822.1032.

MFA Director Emeritus Dr. John Schloder (left) received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Florida Art Museum Directors Association (FAMDA) at the meeting September 21 in West Palm Beach. Daniel Stetson, President of FAMDA and Director of the Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland, presented the award.

Past presidents of The Stuart Society were honored at a reception on November 10 in the Membership Garden. All of these devoted

volunteers continue to leave their mark on the Museum. They include: Seated (left to right): Phyllis Stover Williams, Mary Wheeler, Greta

Myers, Bonita Cobb, Bettye Black, and Eleanor Frazier. Standing (left to right): Joann Barger, current president Glenn Mosby, Susan Hicks,

Marilyn Hobbs, Judy Stanton, Betty Jean Miller, Louise Chapin, Margaret Bowman, Chris Chapman Hilton, Mary Shuh, and Vicki Fox.

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New members August 31-November 30

Pelican/DualChaney, Dr. Fred and Sidney

BayneDillon, Marina and RicEnsminger, Dale and AbbePierce, Mary Jane

PelicanCreed, RosannStack, Joan

PatronDebarba, Ed and Margaret

FamilyAvutu, Sujatha and FrederickBarnitz, OwenCaceres, Daniel and MaggieGardner, M. and M. Savino Johns, Davida and Peter

CrockettKeblinskas, Julius and LisaKnutson, Zachary and Lisa

ChilluraLidros, Johan and LauraMaggio, Frank and NancyMatthews, BrendatMcFadden, Douglas and

Deborah

Olseth, Jeff and BevPassman, Norman and KarenPhillips, John and ChristineRoney, TatianaRunnels, Alex and LydiaStern, PamUrette, Michael and KarenZayas, Egberto and Josephine

General/DualAbramenkov, Sviatoslavand

VitaAhmad, Dr. TabassumAppelt, Nadine and Mathias

D. MeyAvedon, BarryAvila, PatBel, Juan M.Butusov, Robert and BeverlyCalhoon, Patrick and JaneConner, Joel and Carolina

CleereCuellar, Dulcinea and Bill

KimreyDelVecchio, Joe and JoanneDomal, Stan and MaryDunkerley, Roger and Diana

SanderEdmonds, Royal and SusanEisberg, Jim and Wendy

KulscarFernsler, John and JoanFollett, Colin D. and Corrinne

D.Hirschman, David and

Morrison TorreyIskat, Dr. Wilfried and

Catherine R.Johnson, Michael and LauraJohnston, Patricia E.Koutsoubos, GiaLinquanti, Richard and Kim

ShoreManning, Mark and Mark

OlivereMorgan, Charles and MaurineNabe, Clyde and Robert

SouersNolte, Marcia Ward and

Michael ScottO’Malley, Brendan and

Margaret

Prisol, Greg and Fred H. Rhyne

Ridge, Marshall and Sylvia Hope

Schmergel, Gabriel and Valerie

Steele, EllenStewart, Sean T. and Diane E.Thomas, Philip and LouisaTrudell, Thomas and ShirleyUtterback, James and E.

ElizabethVernon, Ed and HazelZampelli, Rick and Jayne

IndividualArevalo, Rose ConchadoBistany, JudyBoore, KatherineCarione, Deborah L.Conroy, AliceCurrier, Alinedela Parte, HelenDenton, Carrol Desautels, John E.Dilvigi, KimberlyDolinsky, ElizabethDowling, NitaDuPonte, Michael J.Fisher, Dr. Elizabeth H.Gillis, Enid G.Hall-Woodworth, SandraHancock, RhondaHarris, L.Hebel, RiataKaan, AlexandraLeopold, ElaynLichter, Mary S.Maggi, MaryMeehan, LindaMoffitt, Anne P.Monger, RobertaMorgan, KathleenMusulin, MarshaNajjar, VictoriaNisenson, SarahNunley, Peggy R.O’Kelley, Catherine H.Penn, ColettePlesser, Bruce A.Quinn, Judith A.Reed, Vanessa L.Reimels, Frederick C.

Ricalde, GraceSmith, Samuel and JeanneSpencer, Lisa C.Spofford, BarbaraSymanski, KayThornton, SusanTichulka, TerryWilliamson, SuzanneZajac, Leslie

EducatorBoza, LindaBunnell, Martha S.Dean, WandaEubanks, PamelaFesk, AnnaFisher, DawnFornsaglio, Christa N.Greene, AvaGrove, DianaGuinn, BrendaHeraty, Velva LeeJunevicus, GeraldLee, JaneMandell, LeonMandell, SaraMulligan, DavidNichols, CaroleRhein, EstherSheridan, JeanSmith, MicheleSnyder, ElizabethSnyder, PattiSpangler, NancyStilwell, Charlotte FinnTennery, GarryTenney, Alice

StudentCalero, MatthewDean, Katherine E.C.Doyle, RichardFavata, SeanGardner, MildredGray, Charles D.Holt, NatalieLakhotia, VivekLee, MarianLingelbach, MichaelRocker, MistyStringer, ElizabethTowery, Kristen R.Zabala, Carmela

Corporate MembersAdams & Reese LLPAEGONCeridianDerby LaneGeneral Dynamics-OTSHennessy Construction

ServicesPhoenix Venture

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Membership CornerWhy not make a New Year’s resolution and upgrade your membership? Become a Pelican Single or above and enjoy the benefits of the North American Reciprocal Program. You will receive free admission to more than 450 museums in the U.S., including the Dalí and the Ringling; Canada; Bermuda; Mexico; and El Salvador.

Sponsor a new member and be entered into a quarterly drawing for a free lunch for two in the MFA Café. Ask your new member to include your name and membership number next to the question, “How did you hear about us?” You can enter each time you sponsor a new member.

Memorials & TributesIn memory of Jack McCorkleSchloder, Dr. John E.

In memory of Joe P. PérezBartelt, EileenBennett, SimoneConnelly, DavidMosby, Glenn and DavPerry, Mary B. and

Dr. Richard E.Schloder, Dr. John E.Shuh, Mary and FredWilty, Evelyn

In memory of Jane ReedWilliams, Phyllis Stover

In honor of Dr. John Schloder’s hard work for the MFA

Grabenstein, Christine

In memory of Marjorie Duke Peterson and Nancy Jo Peterson

Upham, Carol A.

In honor of the Friends of Photography

Bennett, Simone

Letter from the PresidentDear Friends,

As we begin a new year, what can our Museum do for you, your family and friends?

We will offer more world-class exhibitions, which delight our senses and our minds. Our collection, which is our foundation, continues to grow and is now beautifully installed in the original building. You can see 4,500 years of art and culture under one roof through a host of stunning and challenging artworks.

Our photography collection is one of the finest in the Southeast and has taken a giant step forward with the largest gifts of artwork we have ever received. We are deeply grateful to Ludmila and Bruce Dandrew and Chitranee and Dr. Robert Drapkin for their generosity. We will premiere some of the most important photographs from these donations in February.

Our educational programs encompass lectures by major scholars, more informal gallery talks, Super Saturdays, family days, “Magic Carpet to Ancient Adventures” for pre-K children, and Coffee Talks for people 55 and older. Our dedicated docents share their love of art with countless people, including many children visiting a museum for the first time.

Our support groups play a central role in the life of the Museum. The Stuart Society presents one of our most popular exhibitions, Art in Bloom, every spring, and plans a wealth of fundraisers throughout the year. The Collectors Circle brings leading scholars, curators, and collectors to the area for its lecture series and schedules study trips to other museums, art fairs, galleries, and private collections. While enjoying art, they raise funds to acquire it. Our Friends of Photography brings together people interested in the art form and one of our most significant collections.

Music makes our summers bright and cool at the Museum with our Music in the Marly and our jazz series. The acoustics in the Marly Room are ideal for chamber music and what more beautiful place to hear jazz than in our Conservatory overlooking the bay! Our Museum Store has been named the area’s best by the duPont Registry, and the MFA Café serves some of the best lunches in town.

All of this is at your fingertips.

What can you do to keep this treasure vital for years to come?

Please maintain your membership and consider an upgrade. Bring guests to the Museum and encourage them to become members. Donate to Annual Giving. Join the Legacy Society by adding the Museum to your estate plans. Attend The Stuart Society’s wonderful events. Join the Collectors Circle and take advantage of their exceptional programs. Contribute to the Endowment Campaign to help us reach our goal of $5 million. Encourage your civic club, condo association, and other organizations to spotlight the MFA or to come for a group tour.

Join the Marley Music Society, bring a friend, and enjoy the concerts. Hold your next anniversary, bar or bat mitzvah, or corporate luncheon, dinner, or reception at the Museum. Choose the MFA to make your wedding and reception truly unforgettable. Give a quality artwork.

Every museum is about relationships with art and people. It is doubly so at the Museum of Fine Arts. We have always had a family feeling that cannot be put into words.

Tell everyone to make this discovery. Thank you for all that you do for your Museum.

Sincerely,

Seymour A. Gordon, Esq.

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Transcending Vision: American Impressionism 1870-1940Provided by Bank of America Art in our Communities™ programThrough January 9

Romantics to Moderns: British Watercolors and Drawings from the Collection of BNY MellonSponsored by BNY Mellon Wealth ManagementJanuary 22-May 1, 2011

John Scott’s I Remember Birmingham (1997)Commemorating African American History MonthJanuary 27-February 23

Dreams and Realities: Latin American Prints, Drawings, and Watercolors, 1950-1991Through February 6

Familiar and Fantastic: Photographs from the Dandrew/Drapkin DonationFebruary 19-June 12

PLACE: Contemporary Ceramics by Jennifer Forsberg, Sarah Lindley, and Jeanne QuinnMarch 5-April 24

Art in Bloom 2011March 19-23

2000 Years of GlassMuseum Masterpiece SeriesDiscover outstanding glass art in the galleries.

JANUARYSunday/2-Tuesday/4Museum Store closed for inventory.

Sunday/9Transcending Vision: American Impressionism 1870-1940 closes.

Tuesday/11Friends of Decorative Arts: Noted collector Jim Sweeny on the Russel Wright Pottery he and his wife Martha donated to the Museum, 2 p.m.

Wednesday/12Coffee Talk for people 55+: Nan Colton’s “Georgia O’Keeffe,” tour, and refreshments, 10 a.m.-noon

Friday/14Dinner & Jazz: Music and exquisite cuisine from the MFA Café, wine and cash bar, 6-9 p.m.

Saturday/15Super SaturdayDiscovery Hour: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Poppy (1927), 11 a.m.-noon Encore: Nan Colton’s “Georgia O’Keeffe,” 11:30 a.m.MFA: Hands-On: Tissue-Paper Flowers, 1:30-2:30 p.m.

Saturday/22Romantics to Moderns: British Watercolors and Drawings from the Collection of BNY Mellon opens.Gallery Talk: Brian Lang, Curator of the Collection of BNY Mellon, 3 p.m.

Monday/24Members’ Monday: 5-8 p.m.

Saturday/29The History of Art: Chief Curator Dr. Jennifer Hardin on “Art in the Age of Revolution: Nineteenth-Century European Art,” 10 a.m.-noon

FEBRUARYSaturday/5The History of Art: Dr. Daphne Rosenzweig on “Later Asian Art and the West,” 10 a.m.-noon

Sunday/6Dreams and Realities closes.

Wednesday/9Coffee Talk for people 55+: Nan Colton’s “Victorian Point of View,” tour, and refreshments, 10 a.m.-noon

Friday/11The Stuart Society: Inaugural Wine Auction and Gala begins at 6:30 p.m. Fundraiser open to the public.

Saturday/12The History of Art: Jennifer Hardin on “From Independence to Empire: American Art, 1776-1900,” 10 a.m.-noon

Wednesday/16Collectors Circle Lecture Series: Dr. Kathleen Adair Foster of the Philadelphia

Museum of Art on Thomas Eakins’s The Gross Clinic (1875), 6:30 p.m. Open to the public.

Saturday/19Familiar and Fantastic: Presenting Photographs from the Dandrew/Drapkin Donation opens.The History of Art: Dr. Matthew McLendon of the Ringling Museum on “Twentieth-Century European and American Art,” 10 a.m.-noonSuper SaturdayDiscovery Hour: English Wedgwood, 11 a.m.-noon Encore: Nan Colton’s “Victorian Point of View,” 11:30 a.m.MFA: Hands-On: Use Model Magic to create your own Wedgwood-inspired piece, 1:30-2:30 p.m.

Sunday/20Gallery Talk: Jennifer Hardin on Familiar and Fantastic, 3 p.m.

Saturday/26The History of Art: Dr. Hardin on “Great Moments in the History of Photography, 10 a.m.-noon

Sunday/27Lecture: Dr. Scott Wilcox of the Yale Center for British Art on British watercolors, 3:30 p.m.

MARCHSaturday/5PLACE: Contemporary Ceramics by Jennifer Forsberg, Sarah Lindley, and Jeanne Quinn opens.The History of Art: Dr. Maya Stanfield-Mazzi of the University of Florida on “Pre-Columbian Art of the Americas: Mesoamerica and the Andes,” 10 a.m.-noonGallery Talk: Jennifer Forsberg, Sarah Lindley, and Jeanne Quinn introduce their work, 3 p.m.

Wednesday/9Coffee Talk for people 55+: Nan Colton’s “Mina Miller Edison and Gardening in Florida,” tour, and refreshments, 10 a.m.-noon

Saturday/19Art in Bloom 2011 opens.Super SaturdayDiscovery Hour: Still Life with Flowers, attributed to Jan Brueghel the Younger, 11 a.m.-noonEncore: Nan Colton’s “Mina Miller Edison and Gardening in Florida,” 11:30 a.m.MFA: Hands-On: “Melting Bugs” with ceramic artists from the Morean Arts Center, 1:30-3:30 p.m.The Stuart Society: Art in Bloom Preview Party, 6:30-9 p.m. Fundraiser open to the public.

Sunday/20Art in Bloom: “Conversations with the Designers,” 2-4 p.m.

Monday/21The Collectors Circle: “A Place to Hang my Hat,” An Afternoon Tea of Fashion, Music, and Art, 2-5 p.m. Open to the public, limited space.

Wednesday/23Last Day to see Art in Bloom.The Stuart Society: Art in Bloom Luncheon, with presentation by acclaimed floral designer Sylvia Anne Bird, The Vinoy Sunset Ballroom, 11:30 a.m. Fundraiser open to the public.

APRILThursday/7Collectors Circle Lecture Series: Dr. Barbara Buhler Lynes of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum on the work of the legendary artist, 6:30 p.m. Open to the public.

Sunday/10Gallery Talk: Chief Curator Jennifer Hardin on British watercolors, 2 p.m.

Sunday/24PLACE: Contemporary Ceramics closes.

Friday/29The Collectors Circle: “Moroccan Nights,” Collectors Choice X, 7-10 p.m. Fundraiser open to the public, limited space.

Dates to Remember

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Lecture SeriesOpen to the Public

Sponsored by:

All lectures begin at 6:30 p.m. A special cocktail hour for Collectors Circle members only, also sponsored by Northern Trust, starts at 5:30.

The lectures are free for Collectors Circle members, MFA docents, and docent apprentices. Museum members only pay $8 and the general public $15, which includes admission to the permanent collection. Tickets will be available at the door. Barbara McCoy is President of the Collectors Circle, and Mary B. Perry is the Publicity Chair.

Wednesday, February 16: Dr. Kathleen Adair Foster, who is known for her exceptional lectures, will discuss one of the greatest American paintings of the nineteenth century,

Thomas Eakins’s The Gross Clinic (1875). In its day, this large-scale masterpiece was very controversial and like many of the artist’s works, has always been identified with his hometown of Philadelphia.

The Gross Clinic recently generated controversy again when Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. tried to purchase the painting for $68 million from Thomas Jefferson University, one of the city’s medical schools. The work was to be shared between the National Gallery and Ms. Walton’s new museum of American art, under construction in Bentonville, Arkansas.

A successful civic campaign ensued to keep the painting in Philadelphia. It will now be shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. With conservator Mark Tucker, Dr. Foster organized the recent exhibition, An Eakins Masterpiece Restored: Seeing “The Gross Clinic” Anew at the Philadelphia Museum.

Since 2002, Dr. Foster has been the Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Senior Curator of American Art and Director of the Center for American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She previously worked at the Indiana University Art Museum and was an adjunct faculty member in the History of Art and American Studies. She began her museum career at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she held various curatorial positions. She received her B.A. from Wellesley College and her M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Yale University. In addition to receiving numerous grants and fellowships, Dr. Foster has been a Whitney Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a visiting fellow at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art. She has taught at Williams College, Temple University, and the University of Pennsylvania, where she is currently an adjunct professor in the art history

department.

Dr. Foster was co-curator and catalogue essayist for Andrew Wyeth, Memory and Magic at the High Museum in Atlanta and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Most recently, she organized the exhibition and wrote the catalogue for Thomas Chambers (1808-1869), American Marine and Landscape Painter, which opened at the Philadelphia Museum in the fall of 2008 and traveled to three other venues.

Dr. Foster’s books on Eakins have greatly advanced understanding of the artist and his work. They include: Writing about Eakins: The Manuscripts in Charles Bregler’s Thomas Eakins Collection,

with Cheryl Leibold; Thomas Eakins Rediscovered, which won the 1998 Eric Mitchell Prize; and A Drawing Manual by Thomas Eakins. Her book, Captain Watson’s Travels in America, won the 1998 Literary Award from the Athenaeum of Philadelphia.

Thursday, April 7: The best curators are artists in their own right. That is certainly true of Dr. Barbara Buhler Lynes. She is the foremost scholar on the work of Georgia O’Keeffe and one of the leading experts on American Modernism. In her lecture, she will provide insights into the artist’s paintings in the Museum’s collection, especially Grey Hills Painted Red, New Mexico (1930). That important landscape was donated to the MFA in 2010.

The Curator of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, Dr. Lynes is also The Emily Fisher Landau Director of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center. She is the author of the two-volume Georgia O’Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné, which included reproductions of and entries on 2,045 objects and won The Frances Smyth-Ravenel Prize for Excellence in Publications Design.

She has also written Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Collections, which was named the U.S. News Best Book of 2007 for General Art Books. She curated Georgia O’Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place and was one of three contributors to the catalogue, which received the Independent

Press Publication of the Year (IPPY) Award.

Dr. Lynes has curated or co-curated a wealth of exhibitions, many of which have traveled, and has contributed to and edited numerous catalogues. As the first scholar to organize an exhibition of O’Keeffe’s New Mexico landscapes, she is the ideal choice to discuss the Museum’s new painting.

Her Georgia O’Keeffe and the Calla Lily in American Art, 1860-1940 was similarly ground-breaking. It examined the appeal of this exotic flower to O’Keeffe and

Dr. Robert Bianchi delivered a passionate lecture on ancient Egyptian art and history in the first Collectors Circle Lecture on October 22. Attending the reception were (left to right):

Stephanie Goforth, Senior Vice President and Director of the Wealth Strategies Group at sponsor Northern Trust; Barbara

McCoy, President of the Collectors Circle; Dr. Bianchi; publicity chair Mary B. Perry; MFA Director Kent Lydecker;

past President of the Board and current trustee Carol A. Upham; and current Board President Seymour Gordon.

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other American Modernists, such as the painters Charles Demuth and Marsden Hartley and the photographers Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham.

The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and The Phillips Collection jointly organized Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction, the first exhibition to look extensively at the artist’s abstract experimentation over the course of her long career. It was named one of Time’s “top 10 art exhibitions of 2009,” one of “the best museum

shows” by The New Yorker, and a “power exhibition” by Art + Auction.

Dr. Lynes is the co-curator of Shared Intelligence: American Painting and the Photograph, currently at the Columbus (Ohio) Museum of Art, and is working on From the Desert: Georgia O’Keeffe, the Katsina and the Land, which will travel to three other museums. This is the first exhibition to focus on Katsina dolls as part of the larger New Mexico environment that influenced O’Keeffe and her circle.

In high demand as a lecturer, Dr. Lynes holds a Ph.D. in art history from Indiana University and another Ph.D. in French literature from the University of California, Riverside. She also holds her B.A. and M.A. in French literature from the latter. Dr. Lynes has been a professor at Vanderbilt University, Dartmouth College, Montgomery College, and the Maryland Institute, College of Art.

Special Event and Study TripsFor Collectors Circle members only

Sponsored by:

Trip to The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in SarasotaWednesday, January 5, $50Reserved Luncheon

During this excursion to the Ringling, Collectors Circle members will view Splendid Treasures of the Turkomen Tribes from Central Asia. The nomadic Turkomen are known for their ornately decorated jewelry in silver and gold with semi-precious stones. Those pieces reflect the Turkomen’s relationship to the land and view of the cosmos and spirituality. Chief Curator Jennifer Hardin will introduce important works in the museum’s collection, and a tour of Cà d’Zan on the bay will focus on the decorative arts and furnishings in the mansion, as well as the taste of the Ringlings.

Moroccan Nights

Addison Thomas Millar (American, 1860-1913)The Choice Rug (about 1900)

Oil on canvasMuseum Purchase with funds donated by the Collectors Circle

Friday, April 29, 20117-10 p.m.Sponsors:

Cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, gourmet seated dinner, select wines, and some surprises

MFA Director Kent Lydecker and Chief Curator Jennifer Hardin will present three artworks for possible Museum acquisition. Collectors Circle members in

attendance will select their favorite, which will enhance the collection.

Black-Tie Optional Valet Parking available at the Beach Drive entrance

$200 per person Open to the Public, Limited Space

For reservations, please contact Paulee Springer: p.springer@mindspring.com or 727. 866.6209. Please indicate Collectors Choice in the subject line of e-mails.

Jason Busch of the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh made the decorative arts come alive

in his November 19th lecture. Visiting before his presentation were: (left to right) Bonita

Cobb, Secretary of the Board Mary Shuh, Julia Sorbo, Mr. Busch, Chief Curator Jennifer Hardin,

and Tom Wagner, Vice President of Client Development with sponsor Northern Trust.

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Fine Arts Conservancy. There will also be a trip to the Norton Museum of Art to see three special exhibitions. Visitors will stay in The Brazilian Court Hotel and Beach Club, making this the quintessential Palm Beach weekend.

Winter Park Study TripMarch 10, $50

Members will tour The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, which has the most comprehensive collection of works by Louis Comfort Tiffany, as well as choice paintings by some of our country’s greatest artists. They will see the new Laurelton Hall Galleries—a major expansion—and visit the home of important collectors of American art, as well as the studio of their artist-son.

New York City Patrons’ TripFriday-Sunday, March 4-6This provides a wonderful opportunity for Collectors Circle members to visit leading galleries with Director Kent Lydecker and Chief Curator Jennifer Hardin. Participants will view possible works to be presented at Collectors Choice X and, as a special treat, will enjoy a cocktail party at a stunning Greenwich Village loft. $1,000 per person, first-come, first-served.

Palm Beach Study TripFebruary 4-6, $100

Palm Beach is an art lover’s paradise. Collectors Circle members will enjoy the American International Fine Art Fair, one of the world’s best, along with private viewings with select gallery owners. A private breakfast will feature a presentation by Gordon A. Lewis Jr., Senior Director and Vice President of the

The Collectors Circlecordially invites you to

A Place to Hang My HatMonday, March 21, 2-5 p.m. Marly Room and Gardens

Paul Helleu (French, 1859-1927)La Parisienne (Portrait of Madame Helleu), 1884

Pastel and charcoal on paperGift of Mrs. Philip Morrison

An Afternoon Tea of Fashion, Music, and Art

Presenting Sponsor

Underwriter: Informal Modeling by

Guest Speaker:

Seth Pevnick, The Richard E. Perry Curator of Greek and Roman Art at the Tampa Museum of Art, on “Hats and Head

Coverings in Classical Antiquities”

Though not necessary, you are encouraged to wear an elegant or funky hat or one interpreting a work in the collection.

Table Sponsor of eight, $1,000 Benefactor, $150*The above receive program recognition.

Individual Guest, $50Open to the Public, Limited Space

For reservations, please contact Vicki Sofranko, vicki@fine-arts.org or 727.896.2667, ext. 214. Please include

“Hang my Hat” in the subject line of e-mails.For more information,

please call chair Mary B. Perry at 727.823.8395.

Collectors Circle Corporate Sponsors

Astral ExtractsThe Brazilian Court Hotel & Beach Club, Palm BeachHomes by HelenLydian Bank & TrustNeiman MarcusNorthern TrustU.S. Trust, Bank of America

On the back:John Scott (American, 1940-2007)I Remember Birmingham (1997)

Seven hand-pigmented glass blocks and seven relief prints from the blocks

Gift of The Stuart SocietyOn view January 27 - February 3

This installation by one of New Orleans most gifted artists honors the four girls who died in the 1963 Birmingham church bombing. The glass blocks are placed on pedestals, like memorials; include poetic calligraphy; and glow from within. Their coloring suggests church windows, once shattered, now transformed through art. Scott creates a ritual piece, a spiritual space, a place for people to gather and reflect. The black prints on the wall contribute to a powerful exchange. Scott once noted: “What I’ve been trying to do…is make a piece of art that would be similar to what African American musicians have done with gospel and blues and jazz. So that when you hear it, it wraps your soul.”

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