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Donald Droll
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An obituary for art dealer Donald Droll can be found in the New York Times, November 19, 1985, at http://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/19/arts/donald-droll-58-dies-art-dealer-and-patron.html.
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Droll, Donald
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Edith MacKennan
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Edith MacKennan, Deceased - September 10, 2006.
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MacKennan, Edith
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Sandra Warshaw
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Sandra Warshaw ( born Choset). Sandra was my first cousin. She was a relatively young woman when she died, leaving a husband and two young children.
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Warshaw, Sandra
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Michael Mazur
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Michael Mazur. -------- 11/02/1935 - 08/18/2009 -------- Obituary from the New York Times , August 29, 2009 ---------- Michael Mazur, a relentlessly inventive printmaker, painter and sculptor whose work encompassed social documentation, narrative and landscape while moving back and forth between figuration and abstraction, died on Aug. 18 in Cambridge, Mass. He was 73 and lived in Cambridge and Provincetown, Mass. The cause was congestive heart failure, said Mary Ryan, his New York dealer. Mr. Mazur first came to public notice in the early 1960s with two series of etchings and lithographs depicting inmates in a mental asylum in Howard, R.I. The series, “Closed Ward” and “Locked Ward,” rendered with the hand of a master draftsman, showed human beings in unbearable torment. These lost souls, John Canaday wrote in The New York Times, “have the terrible anonymity of individuals who cannot be reached, whose ugly physical presence is only the symptom of a tragic spiritual isolation.” Mr. Mazur’s restless artistic temperament led him to explore a variety of styles and media, shuttling between realism and abstraction. He produced narrative paintings like “Incident at Walden Pond,” a triptych from the late 1970s depicting the aftermath of a rape, and, beginning in the 1990s, abstract landscapes based on his own vascular system and on Chinese landscapes of the 12th to 15th centuries. After seeing an exhibition of Degas monotypes at the Fogg Museum in 1968, he began exploring that medium, most notably in the monumental Wakeby landscapes of 1983, depicting Wakeby Lake on Cape Cod, and in a series of illustrations for Robert Pinsky’s translation of Dante’s “Inferno,” published in 1994. “It’s hard to characterize him because he was always trying new things,” said Clifford S. Ackley, the chairman of prints, drawings and photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. “He did not fall into the trap of repeating himself the way so many older artists do. In the last week of his life he was doing pen-and-ink drawings of flowers and gardens.” Michael Burton Mazur grew up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and attended the Horace Mann School in the Bronx, where he belonged to an art club whose members included the future curator Henry Geldzahler and the future New Yorker cartoonist Ed Koren. While attending Amherst College he studied with the printmaker and sculptor Leonard Baskin, who was teaching at Smith College. After taking a year off to study in Italy, where his lifelong fascination with Dante began, he received a bachelor’s degree in 1957 and went on to earn bachelor’s and master’s degrees in fine art from the Yale School of Art and Architecture. While at Yale he married Gail Beckwith, a poet known by her married name. She survives him, as do their two children, Dan, of Cambridge, and Kathe, of Los Angeles, and two grandchildren. Mr. Mazur taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and Brandeis University from 1961 to 1975 while exhibiting frequently in New York and Boston. In 2000 a traveling retrospective of his prints opened at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The catalog, “The Prints of Michael Mazur With a Catalogue Raisonné, 1956-1999,” was published that year. “I’ll Tell What I Saw,” a selection of excerpts from Dante’s “Divine Comedy” illustrated by Mr. Mazur, is to be published by Sarabande Books in November. Although deadly serious as an artist, Mr. Mazur had a sly wit. In 1984 he wrote an article for the Op-Ed page of The New York Times proposing a W.P.A.-style project under which artists could decorate nuclear warheads, just as Renaissance artists embellished armor and weapons. “It is not hard to imagine the vivid colors, bas reliefs, even graffiti, that would make spectacles of beauty of those dull cones,” he wrote. In time, he suggested, the warheads would find their way into private collections and museums, thereby ending the possibility that they might be deployed.
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Mazur, Michael
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Sarah Silverman
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Sarah Silverman. My maternal grandmother.
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Silverman, Sarah
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Joseph Cornell
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An obituary for sculptor Joseph Cornell can be found in the New York Times, Sunday, December 31, 1972. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/12/31/90732055.html?pageNumber=37
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Cornell, Joseph
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Agfa
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Aug 02, 1989. Wednesday
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Adrienne Elisha
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Adrienne Elisha ------- 08/10/1958 - 6/12/2017 ---------- Obituary from Catskill Mountain News, July 5 2017 -------------- It is with great sadness that the family of Adrienne Joy Elisha (“Adie”) announces her passing on Monday, June 12, 2017, at the age of 58 years, after a courageous battle with cancer. Adie was born in Glen Cove, and lived in Bayville, L.I. during her first 10 years. The daughter of distinguished professional musicians, the late Dorothy Kesner and Paul Elisha, she was an extraordinary artist whose creative genius included the Performing Arts, Composition, Poetry and Painting. She was a champion of new music – equally talented as both a skilled violist as well as a composer. Her voice was distinctly contemporary but her inspiration was drawn directly from her heart. Mario Davidovsky had described her sextet (Anthelion) as “A new kind of polyphony.” Leonard Bernstein described her work as “Excitingly unpredictable, yet inevitable in retrospect.” Adrienne was a 2007 winner of the Thayer Award in music composition and received her Ph D in composition from the University of Buffalo, working with David Felder as a Presidential Doctoral Fellow. Also a graduate of the Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana and the Cleveland Institute of Music, Ms. Elisha’s grants and commissions included those from Meet the Composer and The National Music Teachers’ Association, by whom she was named the 1997 Ohio Composer of the Year. Her credits went on to include Fortnightly Music of Cleveland, Cleveland Chamber Music Society, New Ear Ensemble of Kansas City and the American Music Center. Her works have been featured both nationally and internationally at June in Buffalo, The Colorado Springs New Music Symposium, The Chintimini Chamber Music Festival and at the International Bartok Festival in Szombathely, Hungary, where she performed her own solo and chamber works and premiered those of other composers. “Cry of the Dove,” her cello concerto, was commissioned and premiered by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony for Solo Cellist, Steven Elisha, who performed it subsequently with The Grand Rapids Symphony, under the direction of conductor, David Lockington. In addition to solo and chamber appearances at new music festivals, Dr. Elisha was principal violist with The Center for 21st Century Music Ensemble and the June in Buffalo Chamber Ensemble. She also performed frequently with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. During the Warsaw Autumn Festival, she was featured as soloist and composer on Polish Radio broadcasts, performing new works for solo viola, including her own. Both of her talents were on display in Bern, Switzerland, where her composition, inspired by Paul Klee’s painting, “Once Emerged from the Grey of Night,” was featured. As guest violist, Dr. Elisha also performed with the Ensemble Paul Klee in the premiere of Liber Fulguralis by Tristan Murail. Other performances and commissions included those by solo bassist James VanDemark, the Rochester City Ballet, Musaica Chamber Ensemble, Ensemble Interface, Netzwerk Neue Musik, eighth blackbird, The Chamber Orchestra of Boston, The American Chamber Ensemble, The Denali Ensemble, New York New Music Ensemble and The Arditti String Quartet. In 2009, nominated by Peter Eötvös, Ms. Elisha was the recipient of the Herrenhaus Composer residency in Edenkoben, Germany, where she spent five months as resident composer. She was also named a Composer Fellow of the 2011 Wellesley Composers Conference, led by Mario Davidovsky, director, and was awarded a 2011 Outer Cape Cod Artist’s Residency. She was a recipient of fellowships from the Mac- Dowell Colony and The Rockefeller Foundation at the Bellagio Center. Recent World Premieres included “Lithuanian Dances” with the Nashua Chamber Orchestra under the baton of David Feltner, and “New Overture” with the Galveston Symphony Orchestra, Trond Saeverud, Conductor. She is survived and lovingly remembered by her husband of 23 years, Peter Laki, stepson, Ben Niran, brother and sister inlaw, Paul Hunkins and Ann Gore, sister and brother-in-law, Jill Hunkins and Carlos Castillo, sister and brother-in-law, Nella Hunkins and Richard Slessor, brother and sister-in-law, Steven and Larisa Elisha. She will be forever remembered by her nieces: Michelle Jezierski, Joanna May Hunkins, nephews: Serge Hunkins, Alain Hunkins, Ron Castillo, Douglas Castillo, Michael Castillo, Nicholas de Leval Jezierski, Patrick Elisha as well as extended family and dear friends. Interment will be Monday, July 10, 2017, 2:30 PM, at Beth Moses Cemetery, 1500 Wellwood Ave., West Babylon. 11704 (Farmingdale - Suffolk County). Additional memorial services are planned in Cleveland, Ohio on July 29 and at Bard College, Annandale on-Hudson. (date and time TBA).
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May 5, 2019
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At Jordi Arkö's House in Garsås, Sweden
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May 5, 2019 Sunday
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Elizabeth Murray
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Elizabeth Murray, 1940-2007. An obituary for artist Elizabeth Murray can be found in the New York Times, August 13, 2007 at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/13/arts/design/13murray.html.
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Murray, Elizabeth
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Bob Lehman
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Bob Lehman
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Lehman, Bob
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George Wexler
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George Wexler. A notice of death for artist George Wexler can be found in the New York Times, June 21, 2006, at http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9903E0DA113AF932A15755C0A9609C8B63.
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Wexler, George
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Iris Donnenfeld
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Iris Donnenfeld. Iris was born on March 4, 1941 and passed away on Monday, August 15, 2011. Iris was a resident of Brooklyn, New York. Iris was one of my sister Eileen's best friend when we were growing up in crown Heights, Brooklyn. She and Eileen were often up to mischief.
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Donnenfeld, Iris
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All of Us: Harry Roseman
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"This is a visual manifestation of shifting 'lines' of interconnectedness. These 'lines' shift, intersect, start suddenly and can stop just as suddenly. One can think about this in metaphorically visual terms through the eyes of someone like Mark Lombardi or Edward Tufte. Groups, like Visitors is an ongoing project. Evolving over time with additions still being made from the past and the present, moving into the future." -- Harry Roseman
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Fundraiser for the New York Studio School, NYC, 6 of 6
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At this event, Martin Puryear, Thomas Nozkowski and Calvin Tomkins were honored. We went because of Tom Nozkowski and sat at his table, which was provided by Pace Gallery (the gallery that represents Tom). The dinner was held at Twenty-Four Fifth at 24 Fifth Avenue. See the previous five entries.
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Oct 22, 2009 Thursday
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Benjamin Keddy
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Ben came to work. He did a few rudimentary chores first, including making coffee. We spent most of the day working on China 1987. He also brought some things up to Catherine's studio.
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March 6, 2020, Friday
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Ruperta Aquino
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Ruperta came to clean the house.
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October 23, 2020. Friday
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Mother's Clothing, etc. by Eugene Carroll
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Eugene Carroll died on May 19, 2016 in Mid-Hudson Regional Hospital in Poughkeepsie, NY, immediately following a stay at the Renaissance Rehabilitation and Nursing Care Center in Hyde Park, NY. He was 85 years old. He taught Renaissance Art History at Vassar College from 1965 until he retired in 1999. Eugene grew up in St. Louis with his parents Elsie (Aufmuth) Carroll, Henry Carroll and twin sister Eugenia Carroll (Bender). Peter Charlap and myself were the executives of Eugene’s Estate. He bequeathed a large sum of money to the Missouri Historical Society in St. Louis to conduct studies of the shifting groups of immigrant populations in St. Louis. Eugene’s neighborhood when he was growing up was predominantly German and in recent times became Vietnamese. During the late part of Eugene’s life his mother came to Poughkeepsie to live with him. In addition to the monetary bequest Eugene also bequeathed his mother’s belongings to the historical society. These consisted of all of her clothing, the inventory of the clothing, her bedroom and study furniture, family papers and photographs and the manuscript of a biography that he was working on. Eugene thought that Elsie’s belongings and documents could constitute an exhibition, an exhibition about an ordinary person who lived in St. Louis at a certain time. Among other tasks I had to do for the estate was to discuss this bequest of Elsie’s belongings with the historical society. I spoke with them a number of times and in the end I was told that they did not want any of the objects in this part of the bequest or any of Elsie Carroll’s things. Presented here is the inventory Eugene Carroll made of Elsie Carroll’s Clothing, etc.
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