Art Exhibit to Benefit Settlement

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Art Exhibit to Benefit Settlement

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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 9th, 1954

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NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1954
Art Exhibit To Benefit Settlement

The Lenox Hill Neighborhood Association will be the beneficiary of a preview showing of the loan exhibition known as the “Magic of Flowers in Painting,” to be held on Monday evening at the Wildenstein Galleries. The exhibition will be open to the public on Tuesday to continue through May 15 with a small admission fee, which like the larger proceeds realized from the preview, will also be turned over to the Lenox Hill Neighbarbood Association.
Mrs. Caspar C. de Gersdorff, mrs. Stanley B. Resor and Mrs. Joseph Walker jr. are co-chairman of the benfit preview committee and Mrs. Henry L. Moses is chairman of the patron and patroness committee. Mrs. James M. Snowden is president and Miss Lillian D. Robbins is executive director of Lenox Hill Neighborhood Association. Located at 331 E. 70th St., this settlement house provides all-day care for children of working mothers, family and health service and recreational programs for men, women and children of all ages, races and creeds.
The special loan collection will feature works of outstanding artists of the sixteenth through twentieth centuries. Among those serving on the benefit and patroness committees are Mmes. Harry Payne Bingham, Stephen C. Clark, W. Thorn Kissel, A. Mellon Bruck, Carroll Carstairs, Duncan S. Ellsworth, John W. Cross, Charles N. Breed jr., Marshall Field, Frank Altschul, Bernard Gimbel, Howeth T. Ford, Laurence S. Rockefeller, Edward R. Murrow, William Woodward ur., Paul Moore, Peter S. Paine, Harold I. Pratt, Lewis Preston, Ira Haupt, Robert E. Strawbridge jr., Henry R. Wilmerding jr., George N. Richard, Jack I. Straus, Howard Sachs, Alfred C. Clark, Robert Strausz-Hupe, Irving H. Vogel and many others.

Mrs. Caspar DeGersdorff, left, and Mrs. Charles N. Breed jr., members of the board of directors of the Lenox Hill Neighborhood Association, meet to discuss final plans for the preview of “Magic of Flowers in Painting” exhibition at Wildenstein Galleries April 12.

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“Art Exhibit to Benefit Settlement,” Archives & Special Collections, accessed December 5, 2024, https://library.hunter.cuny.edu/omeka/items/show/2326.

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