Word: auction
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ackerman, Fogg Director Daniel S. Robbins, former Brandeis Rose Art Gallery Director William Seitz, former Director of the Museum of Fine Arts Perry Rathbone, Boston's First Lady Kathy White, art patron Elma Lewis, and filmmaker Frederick Wiseman. Some of these sponsors donated works to be sold in the auction, like an antique instrument given by former President of Radcliffe Mary Bunting, while others helped publicize the event. But the real organization job rested with chairwoman collector Nataile Klebenov...
Professor H. Stuart Hughes, who held a similar auction at the Unitarian Church in Cambridge which raised money for his 1962 senatorial campaign, commented. "Artists are unusually generous. They give paintings that would sell for thousands of dollars, and they're out that much money. You don't find citizens of many kinds giving that...
Works donated by collectors and by the artists themselves for the auction represented such artists as Joan Miro whose child-like graphic form went for $450. George Rickey whose kinetic sculpture of coiled wires sold for $1100, and Richard Anuskiewicz whose optical color patterns of acrylic on board brought $2350. Harvard's artists were represented by Toshi Katayama's silkscreen from the Kyoto Series selling for $175 and a color polaroid of toys and toothbrush by photographer Fred Brink...
...also to the smaller groups within these larger stratifications. Of course the measure of his tactics and socio-political awareness depends on the evidence he provides in November. Roger Sonnabend of the Committee for Art for McGovern '72 explained how one can measure the success of such an auction: "The most important measure is in November (the reason for this sale and auction). But also everybody should have a good time and a very exciting evening...
Another implication of the auction besides money was the strength of McGovern's interest in the arts through such programs as the National Endowment for the Arts. Andrew Hyde, present director of Boston's Institute of Contemporary Arts and commentator expert for the auction, said. Assuming this auction is successful, we can talk with reason about the power of supporting arts programs like the National Endowment. It is obvious and important that people here tonight are those who care about the arts in this context, especially those in New England who are concerned about support for the arts and about...