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The dinner scene at the 2008 Frederic E. Church Award dinner to benefit the Olana Partnership. |
Tuesday night at the Pierre, they held the 2008 Frederic E. Church Award dinner which benefits the Olana Partnership. They honored Alice Walton – Founder of Crystal Bridges Museum of Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, and John Wilmerding, one of the nation’s most respected scholars and authorities on American Art. Ms. Walton is one of the offspring of Mr. Sam himself.
Before the event there was a private reception at the Adelson Galleries at 19 East 82nd Street for a preview of the exhibition, “Frederic Edwin Church: Romantic Landscapes and Seascapes,” followed by cocktails at the Pierre and then dinner. |
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John Wilmerding and Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. |
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Liz Callaway |
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The evening’s presenters were Ruth Carter Stevenson and Ted Stebbins. The evening’s co-chairs were Marshall Field V, Richard A Manoogian, H. Peter Stern and Helen W. Drutt English.
The Olana Partnership advocates for and supports the conservation, preservation, development and improvement of the Olana State Historic site, once the home of the painter Frederic Church, one of the country’s most important artists, a student of Thomas Cole and a major figure in the Hudson River School of landscape painting, who was born in 1826 and died in 1900.
The partnership is a real act of love and brings out the best in people devoted to culture and the arts in this country. You can learn more about it by visiting the site: www.olana.org or even visiting. |
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Anne Miller and Stuart Breslow |
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Charles and Julia Bolton |
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Jazz Johnson, Helena Khazanova, and BJ Topol |
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Annie Walton and Alice Walton |
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Tina Flaherty and Luca Corbelli |
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David and Laurie Finkelstein |
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Vivien Liu and Harold Levy |
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Sara and Guy Ardrey |
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Warren Adelson and friend |
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Martha Parrish and Alice Walton |
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Alice Walton and John Wilmerding |
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Jamie and Phyllis Wyeth |
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Kitty Hawks and Larry Lederman |
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Robin Duke and Alice Walton |
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Ruth Carter Stevenson |
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Tita Hyland, Douglas Hyland, and Helen Cooper |
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Sara J. Griffen and John Wilmerding |
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Alice Walton, Moshe Safdie, and Sara J. Griffen |
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Mish and Chris Merton |
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Bob Workman, Liz Workman, Moshe Safdie, and Sandy Edwards |
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Susan Lehrman and Eli Wilner |
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| Also Tuesday night over at Cipriani 42nd Street, the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures Awards Gala brought out many leading Hollywood stars. The evening was sponsored by Bulgari and Nicola Bulgari was there also. George Clooney, named best actor fo the film Michael Clayton was there with Sarah Larsen. Also attending were Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck, Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, Denzel Washington, Tommy Lee Jones, Kate Winslet, young and upcoming stars Ellen Page and Emile Hirsch (no relation to NYSD’s Jeff Hirsch). |
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Annie Starke and Glenn Close |
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Cody and Alan Horn |
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Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas |
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Denzel Washington, Jurnee Smollett, and Nate Parker |
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Jesse L Martin |
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Glenn Close and Tim Burton |
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Ben Affleck |
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Diablo Cody |
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Emile Hirsch |
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Emily Francis |
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Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin ... |
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Emily Mortimer |
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Ellen Page |
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George Clooney and Sarah Larson |
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Julian Schnabel |
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George Clooney |
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Thomas Young |
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Lauren Bacall and Bob Osborne |
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Marie-Josée Croze, Annie Schulhof, and Nancy Oliver |
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Michael Murphy and Julie Christie |
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Marlo Thomas and Phil Donahue |
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Mike Wallace |
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Nicola Bulgari |
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Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, and Javier Bardem |
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Tilda Swinton |
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Nancy Oliver |
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Nicole Miller |
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Jennifer Garner |
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| Photographs by ©PatrickMcMullan.com |
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