Aiding in Plans for Benefit, Art Show to Help Local Lenox Hill Group
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Aiding in Plans for Benefit, Art Show to Help Local Lenox Hill Group
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New York Times column describing the upcoming "Magic of Flowers in Painting" exhibit to benefit the Lenox Hill Association.
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The New York Times
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April 7th, 1954
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HE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1954.
Aiding in Plans for Benefit
ART SHOW TO HELP
LENOX HILL GROUP
'Magic of Flowers'Preview and and Public Display to Be
Held at Wildenstein's
Well-known women including Mrs. Charles N. Breed Jr. and Mrs. Joseph Walker Jr., are furthering the success of the preview of the loan exhibition, known as the "Magic of Flowers in Painting." The advance showing will take place Monday night at the Wildenstein Galleries for the benefit of the Lenox Hill Neighborhood Association.
The exhibtion will be opened to the public on Tuesday and will continue through May 15 for the benefit of the same organization.
Co-chairmen of the benefit committee are Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Caspar C. de Gersdorff and Mrs. Stanley B. Resor. Mrs. Henry L. Moses heads the committee of patrons and patronesses for the event. The exhibtion will include paintings by artists of the sixteenth century through the twentieth century.
Proceeds from the preview and the funds realized from the small admission fee charged during the exhibition will be turned over to the needs of the Lenox Hill Neighborhood Association. The beneficiary, at 331 East Seventieth Street, provides day care and training for the children of working mothers, a family health service and recreational programs for men, women and children of all ages, races and creeds. Mrs. James M. Snowden is president of the association and Miss Lillian D. Robbins is executive director.
Serving also on the benefit committee are Mrs. Harry Payne Bingham, Mrs. Duncan S. Ellsworth, Mrs. Marshall Field, Mrs. Howeth T. Ford, Mrs. Bernard F. Gimbel, Mrs. Harold I. Pratt, Mrs. W. Thorne Kissel, Mrs. Carroll Carstairs, Mrs. Frank Altschul, Mrs. A. Mellon Bruce, Mrs. Stephen C. Clark, Mrs. Laurance S. Rockerfeller, Mrs. Howard Sachs, Mrs. John W. Cross, Mrs. Jack I. Straus, Mrs. William Woodward Jr., and Mrs. Robert Strausz-Hupé.
Others are Mr. and Mrs. Alfred C. Clark, Mrs. Henry R. Wilmerding Jr., Mrs Robert E. Strawbridge Jr., Mrs. Irving Horace Vogel, Mrs. Maruice Wertheim, Mrs. Edward R. Murrow, Mrs. Lewis Preston, Mrs. Ira Haupt, Mrs. Richard Kaye Korn, Mrs. George N. Richard, Miss Mabel Choate, Mrs. Paul Moore, Mrs. peter S. Paine, Herbert Scheftel, Rene Fribourg, William Zorach, Henry Clifford, Gilbert Kahn, John Rewald, George Grant Snowden Jr. Walter Stuempfig and Vladimir Visson.
Mrs. Charles N. Breed Jr., left, and Mrs. Joseph Walker Jr., who are assisting with plans for the preview of the loan exhibition known as “Magic of Flowers in Painting” for the benefit of Lenox Hill Neighborhood Association.
Aiding in Plans for Benefit
ART SHOW TO HELP
LENOX HILL GROUP
'Magic of Flowers'Preview and and Public Display to Be
Held at Wildenstein's
Well-known women including Mrs. Charles N. Breed Jr. and Mrs. Joseph Walker Jr., are furthering the success of the preview of the loan exhibition, known as the "Magic of Flowers in Painting." The advance showing will take place Monday night at the Wildenstein Galleries for the benefit of the Lenox Hill Neighborhood Association.
The exhibtion will be opened to the public on Tuesday and will continue through May 15 for the benefit of the same organization.
Co-chairmen of the benefit committee are Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Caspar C. de Gersdorff and Mrs. Stanley B. Resor. Mrs. Henry L. Moses heads the committee of patrons and patronesses for the event. The exhibtion will include paintings by artists of the sixteenth century through the twentieth century.
Proceeds from the preview and the funds realized from the small admission fee charged during the exhibition will be turned over to the needs of the Lenox Hill Neighborhood Association. The beneficiary, at 331 East Seventieth Street, provides day care and training for the children of working mothers, a family health service and recreational programs for men, women and children of all ages, races and creeds. Mrs. James M. Snowden is president of the association and Miss Lillian D. Robbins is executive director.
Serving also on the benefit committee are Mrs. Harry Payne Bingham, Mrs. Duncan S. Ellsworth, Mrs. Marshall Field, Mrs. Howeth T. Ford, Mrs. Bernard F. Gimbel, Mrs. Harold I. Pratt, Mrs. W. Thorne Kissel, Mrs. Carroll Carstairs, Mrs. Frank Altschul, Mrs. A. Mellon Bruce, Mrs. Stephen C. Clark, Mrs. Laurance S. Rockerfeller, Mrs. Howard Sachs, Mrs. John W. Cross, Mrs. Jack I. Straus, Mrs. William Woodward Jr., and Mrs. Robert Strausz-Hupé.
Others are Mr. and Mrs. Alfred C. Clark, Mrs. Henry R. Wilmerding Jr., Mrs Robert E. Strawbridge Jr., Mrs. Irving Horace Vogel, Mrs. Maruice Wertheim, Mrs. Edward R. Murrow, Mrs. Lewis Preston, Mrs. Ira Haupt, Mrs. Richard Kaye Korn, Mrs. George N. Richard, Miss Mabel Choate, Mrs. Paul Moore, Mrs. peter S. Paine, Herbert Scheftel, Rene Fribourg, William Zorach, Henry Clifford, Gilbert Kahn, John Rewald, George Grant Snowden Jr. Walter Stuempfig and Vladimir Visson.
Mrs. Charles N. Breed Jr., left, and Mrs. Joseph Walker Jr., who are assisting with plans for the preview of the loan exhibition known as “Magic of Flowers in Painting” for the benefit of Lenox Hill Neighborhood Association.
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