Young Fellows Benefit Chairman Blaike Young, Annabelle Garrett, Benefit Chairman Janine Hill, Board of Trustees Chairman and Benefit Chairman Betty Eveillard, Sarah McNear, Stephanie Garrett, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Director Ian Wardropper, Honoree Marina Kellen French, Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator Xavier F. Salomon, Benefit Chairmen Jean-Marie R. Eveillard, Jane Moss, and Ravenel Curry, and Andrew Gundlach
And then, Monday night(or should I say “Monday evening…”?), The Frick Collection was hosting their annual Autumn Dinner this year at the Metropolitan Club (because the Frick is undergoing an expansion of their space). They honored Marina Kellen French.
It’s a special evening to celebrate the institution and its enduring legacy. When it occurs at the mansion it is one of the great social experiences in New York. By social I mean where people congregate. Because of its historical reference in New York lives. And all the while you’re surrounded with astounding art of the last five centuries. And you’re dining in the fashion of it. If you notice. You’re sitting in history, and you’re alive too!
Cocktails in the Great Hall of the Metropolitan Club for this year’s Autumn Dinner.Floral arrangements by Stellar Style Events.Dinner in the West Lounge.
The black-tie event raises vital funds to support the many important activities of the museum and Frick Art Reference Library, including conservation, education programs, and special exhibitions.
This year they honored Marina Kellen French, a loyal friend to The Frick Collection for many years.
Board of Trustees Chairman and Benefit Chairman Betty Eveillard.Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Director Ian Wardropper.
Ms. French has been a member of the Frick’s Director’s Circle since 2013. She has actively supported the museum’s acquisitions program and, year after year, has donated to its most important benefit events, including the Autumn Dinner and Spring Garden Party.
As vice president of the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation—named for her parents, themselves notable patrons of the arts—she supported the Frick’s landmark exhibition, Luigi Valadier: Splendor in Eighteenth-Century Rome.
Honoree Marina Kellen French.
In 2019, Ms. French directed a generous gift from the foundation to the Campaign for the Frick, which named the museum’s directorship in her parents’ honor. For decades, she has dedicated herself to supporting educational, medical, and arts and cultural institutions that enrich the lives of countless individuals.
A native New Yorker and alumna of Brearley, the private girl’s school which is across the street from my building, she then attended the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. She serves on the boards of several of the city’s most prominent arts organizations — including Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Opera, and TEFAF Art Fair — and sits on the executive board of the Hospital for Special Surgery.
Betty Eveillard, Honoree Marina Kellen French, and Ian Wardropper.
She is a trustee emerita of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and a life trustee at both the Morgan Library & Museum and WNET Channel 13. In addition to the Frick’s directorship, Ms. French has named the positions of artistic director of the Park Avenue Armory and director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In recognition of her commitment to sustaining the city’s cultural vitality, she was honored in 2021 as a “Living Landmark” by the New York Landmarks Conservancy.
Betty Eveillard, Chair of the Frick’s Board of Trustees, welcomed guests and toasted Ms. French for her remarkable support of the arts and her long-standing dedication to the Frick.
As the evening began, after the main course, Ian Wardropper, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Director, toasted Ms. French for her remarkable support of the arts and her long-standing dedication to the Frick and its exhibition and acquisitions programs, benefit events, and renovation and enhancement project. After Ms. French spoke, she was presented with a commemorative silver tray from Christofle.
Bridgette Young, Young Fellows Benefit Chairman Blaike Young, Board of Trustees Chairman and Benefit Chairman Betty Eveillard, Honoree Marina Kellen French, Benefit Chairman Janine Hill, Stephanie Garrett, Annabelle Garrett, and Benefit Chairman Jane Moss.Siobhan Hengemuhle, Allie Gray, Josh Glikin, and Addie Spencer.Casey Kohlberg, Dana Prussian, Alexander Hankin, Lizzie Asher, Andrew Puopolo, Eda Ozman, and Ian Malone.L. to r.: Benefit Chairmen Ronald and Jo Carole Lauder; Trustee Michael Horvitz and Jane Horvitz.Benefit Chairmen Margot and Jerry Bogert, Nolan Crawford, Madeline Bogert, and Thomas Jonas.L. to r.: CJ Coedring and Bailey Foote; Mireille Goldschmidt, Hubert Goldschmidt, and Jennifer Wright.Annabelle Garrett, Cynthia Sculco, Wolfram Koeppe, Isabelle Harnoncourt Feigen, Thomas P. Sculco, and Stephanie Garrett.L. to r.: Deputy Director for External Affairs Tia Chapman, Honoree Marina Kellen French, and Benefit Chairman Janine Hill; Board of Trustees Chairman and Benefit Chairman Betty Eveillard and Janine Hill.Harrison Vincent, William Holzhauer, Young Fellows Benefit Chairman Blaike Young, Wagner Eleuteri, Caitlin Walley, Carly Mellos, Marshall Snook, and Devin Someck.L. to r.: Sara Lopergolo, Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer Joe Shatoff, and Associate Director for Capital Projects Carolyn Straub; Cynthia and Thomas P. Sculco.Harlan and Sabina Stone and Assistant Curator of Sculpture Giulio Dalvit.L. to r.: Sofia Blanchard and Ian Wardropper; William Reid, Associate Director of Development Angie Calderwood, and Nicole Martin.Assistant Curator of Sculpture Giulio Dalvit, Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts Marie-Laure Buku Pongo, Curator Aimee Ng, and Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator Xavier F. Salomon.L. to r.: Megan Melbourne and Brittany Beyer Harwin; Frank Yu and Patricia Pei.Rajit Malhotra, Young Fellows Benefit Chairman Anita Saggurti, Zeke Sexauer, and Bach Mai.L. to r.: Barbara Evans, Trustee Brad Evans, and Benefit Chairman Margot Bogert; Monika Heimbold and Edward Gallagher.Robin D. Straus, Trustee Michael Horvitz, Jane Horvitz, and Joseph A. Kanon.L. to r.: Giulio Dalvit and Eiko Assael; Bach Mai, Young Fellows Benefit Chairman Anita Saggurti and Mercedes de Guardiola.L. to r.: Honoree Marina Kellen French and Emily K. Rafferty; Edward Lee Cave and Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide.Ralph Schaefer, Lane Florsheim, Chad Tendler, Clive Chang, Arielle Patrick, Navin D. Bhatia, Eli Lewis, William J. Sullivan, and Kurt Chauviere.L. to r.: Victor Costa and Jerry Ann Woodfin-Costa; Curator Aimee Ng, Tia Chapman, and Annabelle Selldorf.Marley and Jaclyn Cohen.L. to r.: Xavier F. Salomon and Head of Marketing Alexis Light; Eve Brookville and Trustee Sharese Bullock-Bailey.Xavier F. Salomon, Benefit Chairman Jane Moss, and Ravenel Curry.L. to r.: Wes Gordon and Paul Arnhold; Andrew W. Mellon Chief Librarian Stephen J. Bury and Sarah McNear.Nolan Crawford and Stephanie Garrett.
