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Title: Interview at the Gallery
Caption: We got back to Galleri Se Konst in time to meet the reporter, Anders K. Gustafsson. While Anders was interviewing me, Rasimus, Catarina, and Catherine were doing the lighting for the show. I talked to Anders for about 45 minutes. He wrote an article about the exhibition that was later posted online. When we left the Gallery (Catherine, Rasimus, me), Rasimus took us to his parent's house for fika (Swedish tradition for getting together for camaraderie, and food/drink, but mostly camaraderie).
Date: May 03, 2019 Friday

Title: The Delarnas Museum, Falun, Sweden
Caption: We had lunch at the restaurant in the museum before dealing with business. Gunilla had to leave following lunch. So Catherine, John, and I went upstairs to the auditorium where I was to do my lecture. We did a technical check with a guy from the museum. We also installed five of my drawings for a small exhibition at the museum. We had to get back to the gallery in time to meet a reporter, who would be interviewing me for an article on the exhibition.
Date: May 03, 2019 Friday

Title: Galleri Se Konst, Falun, Sweden
Caption: We arrived in Stockholm on Thursday, May 2nd. John Rasimus picked us up at the airport in Stockholm and drove the 2 and 1/2 hours to Falun. He dropped us off at our hotel, the Bergmastaren. The hotel, a cashless establishment (typical in Stockholm), served breakfast and dinner. The hotel contributed some of the cost for the rooms to the Galleri Se Konst. The Galleri provided the rest. It was a smallish hotel and a lovely place to stay. The next day, Friday, Rasimus picked us up at 10 am. We all spent the morning organising and hanging the show. Catherine and I gave our input into where the drawings should go. Rasimus and Gunilla did the physical hanging. When the show installation was completed, we all went to lunch at the Dalarnas Museum, the location of my lecture.
Date: May 3, 2019 Friday

Title: Mole Mole, Poughkeepsie, NY, Dinner for Yun-Fei Ji. 4 of 4
Caption: Yun-Fei Ji came to Vassar to give a talk on his work as well as to do critics with some of the studio majors. See the previous three entries.
Date: April 23, 2019 Tuesday

Title: Mole Mole, Poughkeepsie, NY, Dinner for Yun-Fei Ji. 3 of 4
Caption: Yun-Fei Ji came to Vassar to give a talk on his work as well as to do critics with some of the studio majors. See the previous two entries and the following entry.
Date: April 23, 2019 Tuesday

Title: Mole Mole, Poughkeepsie, NY, Dinner for Yun-Fei Ji. 2 of 4
Caption: Yun-Fei Ji came to Vassar to give a talk on his work as well as to do critics with some of the studio majors. See the previous entry and the following two entries.
Date: April 23, 2019 Tuesday

Title: Mole Mole, Poughkeepsie, NY, Dinner for Yun-Fei Ji. 1 of 4
Caption: Yun-Fei Ji came to Vassar to give a talk on his work as well as to do critics with some of the studio majors. See the following three entries.
Date: April 23, 2019 Tuesday

Title: Simon Tosky
Caption: Simon came to work.
Date: April 22, 2019 Monday

Title: April 22, 2019
Date: April 22, 2019 Monday

Title: The Corner Restaurant, Tivoli, NY, Easter Sunday
Caption: From time to time, we meet up with a group of friends for an early Easter Sunday dinner. Tom Nozkowski and Joyce Robins were supposed to come, but Tom wasn't up to it.
Date: April 21, 2019 Sunday

Title: Darren Pulver
Caption: Darren worked in the garden.
Date: April 20, 2019

Title: Maria Sleboda-Lojek
Caption: Maria came to clean.
Date: April 19. 2019 Friday

Title: Essie's Restaurant, Poughkeepsie, NY. Dinner with Barbara and Judy. 2 of 2
Caption: We had made a date to meet Barbara and Judy at Essie's on the 18th. But they had mixed up their calendar, so Cathy (Catherine Murphy) and I went to the restaurant on the 18th, and after a phone call with Barbara, we ate by ourselves and remade the date for the next day, the 19th. See the previous entry.
Date: April 19, 2019 Friday

Title: Tim Liefer
Caption: I have no idea why Tim came over.
Date: April 19,. 2019 Friday

Title: The Pulver Family
Caption: They came to work in the Garden.
Date: April 19, 2019 Friday

Title: Colin with the Dingo Machine
Caption: Darren needed the Dingo to smooth out the slope on the side of the house. So we rented one.
Date: April 19, 2019 Friday

Title: Essie's Restaurant, Poughkeepsie, NY. 1 of 2
Caption: We were supposed to meet Barbara Paige and Judy Dollenmeyer at Essie's, but they mixed it up on their calendar (see Essie's April 19th). So we ate dinner by ourselves and rescheduled for the next day. Harvey and Mary (Flad) were also having dinner at Essie's. See the following entry.
Date: April 18, 2019 Friday

Title: Al Nowak
Caption: Al came to photograph my new freestanding plywood sculpture titled "Toppled"
Date: April 17, 2019 Wednesday

Title: Andrew from Adam's Landscaping
Caption: Andrew delivered three yards of top soil for Darren to use to regrade the slope on the side of the house (see Darren Pulver April 20, 2019).
Date: April 16, 2019 Tuesday

Title: Two men from Northeast Transit, Fine Art Services
Date: April 15, 2019

Title: April 14, 2019
Date: April 14, 2019

Title: Simon Tosky
Caption: After Simon did his regular morning routine, he swept Cathy's (Murphy) studio (in house) to get ready for the art handlers to pick up and wrap up Catherine's (Murphy) painting to bring down to the Peter Freeman Gallery. After that Simon took out all of the chairs from the Dutch barn to put around the property so that they wouldn't be in the way for when Al came to photograph the sculpture on the 17th.
Date: April 14, 2019 Sunday

Title: Pizza Lunch
Caption: See last two entries. Darren and Jean came to work in the garden, Simon came to do various things, Tim came to rebuild stair extensions in Catherine's studio. We all had lunch together, Pizza from Ginos on Main St. and a salad that Catherine made.
Date: April 6, 2019

Title: Darren, Jean, Aliyah Pulver (Pulver Family)
Caption: Darren and Jean came to work in the garden. During the winter Darren spent about 3 weeks in the Philipines. Jean and Aliyah were there for about six weeks. We had lunch together with Simon and Tim (see next entry).
Date: April 6, 2019

Title: Simon Tosky
Caption: Simon did his regular chores, went to pick up pizza for all of our lunches (see entry after next), Darren, Simon and I walked in the woods to see if fallen trees had to be dealt with. We reset up faux bois veh near the pond (sunk and fell over into the muddy soil). Started the station wagon and drove it. Working on the site.
Date: April 6, 2019

Title: Maria Sleboda-Lojek
Caption: She cleaned.
Date: April 6, 2019

Title: April 6, 2019
Caption: In my studio, Hyde Park, NY.
Date: April 6, 2019

Title: April 1, 2019
Caption: In my studio, Hyde Park, NY.
Date: April 1, 2019

Title: Simon Tosky
Caption: Simon did, Normal chores, wrap package for Sweden, set up lighting for Cathy's new painting, bring package to ups and USPS to ship, unframe drawings (Framed drawings sent back to me from Davis and Langdale, removed from frames to send to Sweden, wrapped empty frames in brown paper and he cleaned off pines and branches from patio.
Date: April 1, 2019

Title: Simon Tosky
Caption: We worked on getting the drawings ready to send to Sweden for my exhibition.
Date: March 28, 2019 Thursday

Title: Vibha Nagrath Dhingra
Caption: Vibha Nagrath Dhingra 3/27/2019 Vibha Nagrath Dhingra, age 74, of Nashua, NH, formerly of Winchester, passed away on March 27, 2019. Vibha was born in her grandfather Lala Ralya Ram Nagrath‘s home on Keeling Road, New Delhi, India on September 21, 1944. Despite losing her mother, Jasmati Devi Nagrath, when she was only six month’s old and her father Inderjit Nagrath, when she was only four, Vibha had a happy childhood in her grandfather’s house. She and her older sister Abha, were lovingly raised by their younger brother Ranjit Nagrath’s mother Savitri Devi Nagrath and were lucky to have the love and care of a large extended family including their grandparents and many aunts, uncles and cousins. Vibha attended boarding school in the foothills of the Himalayas from the age of four. She completed her elementary, secondary, and collegiate studies at the Sacred Heart Convent School in Dalhousie. Her lifelong love of nature and her indelible connection to the mountains began there. In 1966, at the age of 22, she married Satish Dhingra and they moved, first to Canada, and then to the United States. While Satish pursued his master’s degree, Vibha got her green card and her first job, as a clerk in the computer lab at MIT. Vibha and Satish welcomed their first son, Anand in 1969 and their second son, Vivek in 1976 and just six months later, Vibha became a citizen of the United States. After living in Cambridge and Belmont, they settled in Winchester, MA in 1978. When they separated in 1980, Vibha became a single mother. After being a stay-at-home mom for many years, Vibha worked tirelessly to support her sons. She never remarried, singular in her focus on her children and her desire to maintain her independence. In 1983 Vibha completed her MBA from Suffolk University. Despite their divorce in 1986, Vibha maintained a cordial relationship with her ex-husband, until his death in November 2017. After a successful career in corporate accounting, Vibha retired in 2009 and moved to Nashua, NH. She spent the last year at Apple Valley Center in Ayer, MA where she made many friends among the staff and residents. Vibha loved animals, especially dogs. She enjoyed international travel and learning about history; she loved to read biographies and discuss current events. She had a beautiful voice and enjoyed singing classical Indian music as well as hymns in English. In recent years, she spent considerable time in her garden. She loved plants and flowers and was especially fond of peonies. Vibha enjoyed a wide circle of friends from every chapter of her life. Her two grandsons were her pride and joy. Vibha is survived by her sister Abha Gupta (née Nagrath) and her husband Promod Gupta of New Delhi, India; her son Anand Dhingra and his wife Holly (née Parker) of Nashua, NH; her son Vivek Dhingra and his wife Catherine (née Bingham) and her grandsons Nikhil and Rhys of Wakefield, MA; as well as many cousins, in-laws, nieces and nephews and countless friends. Relatives and friends are kindly invited to attend a Memorial Service to be held at Costello Funeral Home, Saturday April 6th 2019 from 1pm to 2pm. Visiting hours will follow the service from 2pm to 5pm. Sign Driving Directions Print Page Share Costello Funeral Home 177 Washington Street Winchester, MA USA 01890 781-729-1730 HOME / BACK
Date: March 27, 2019

Title: MICA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD (dinner at La Cuchara, Basque Cuisine). 3 of 3
Caption: After Catherine finished her work for the day. A group of us went out to dinner at La Cuchara, Basque Cuisine. See the previous two entries.
Date: March 25, 2019 Monday

Title: MICA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD. 2 of 3
Caption: Tony Shore, has asked Catherine to come to MICA for a couple of years. Tony was a student of Catherine's at Yale at least 20 years ago. So Catherine finally did say yes, and so the time came, and we headed to Baltimore on a Sunday. It took forever to get there, much longer than we had expected. We arrived late afternoon at the Revival Hotel. The MICA people set up the reservation. We had thought if we got to Baltimore early enough, we'd go to the art museum. That didn't happen. We had dinner in our rooms and rested for the evening. Catherine had to be at the Brown Center auditorium at about 11:15 am for a technical check. Her talk was at noon. Ben Busch, who was in College Park, MD working on the house that he and Tracy used to live in, attended the talk. The talk went exceedingly well. We had lunch (pictured in this entry) in a place on campus. Following lunch, Catherine did critiques with a number of students-- many more than she had planned. After the critiques, she conducted a discussion and question session with some students and faculty. I planned to go to the Baltimore Museum of Art. But I didn't think of it, and no one who I told I was going thought of it either. So when I finally remembered and arrived at the museum, it was closed-- not entirely a surprise, considering most museums I know of are closed on Mondays. I spent the rest of the time writing the first draft of a proposal for an exhibition to give to Elena Sisto. She had asked me for something in writing for a show she is working on for me. More about this later on, if it happens. If, not then this is the last you'll hear of it. See the previous entry and the following entry.
Date: March 25, 2019 Monday

Title: MICA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD. 1 of 3
Caption: Tony Shore, has asked Catherine to come to MICA for a couple of years. Tony was a student of Catherine's at Yale at least 20 years ago. So Catherine finally did say yes, and so the time came, and we headed to Baltimore on a Sunday. It took forever to get there, much longer than we had expected. We arrived late afternoon at the Revival Hotel. The MICA people set up the reservation. We had thought if we got to Baltimore early enough, we'd go to the art museum. That didn't happen. We had dinner in our rooms and rested for the evening. Catherine had to be at the Brown Center auditorium at about 11:15 am for a technical check. Her talk was at noon. Ben Busch, who was in College Park, MD working on the house that he and Tracy used to live in, attended the talk. The talk went exceedingly well. We had lunch (pictured in this entry) in a place on campus. Following lunch, Catherine did critiques with a number of students-- many more than she had planned. After the critiques, she conducted a discussion and question session with some students and faculty. I planned to go to the Baltimore Museum of Art. But I didn't think of it, and no one who I told I was going thought of it either. So when I finally remembered and arrived at the museum, it was closed-- not entirely a surprise, considering most museums I know of are closed on Mondays. I spent the rest of the time writing the first draft of a proposal for an exhibition to give to Elena Sisto. She had asked me for something in writing for a show she is working on for me. More about this later on, if it happens. If, not then this is the last you'll hear of it. See the following two entries.
Date: March 25, 2019 Monday

Title: Dinner at Butterfield at Hasbrouck House, Tom's Birthday, Stone Ridge, NY
Caption: We had dinner with Tom Nozkowski, Joyce Robins, and Judy Linn for Tom's Birthday. Tom treated everybody. Right after dinner, we followed Tom and Joyce in our car because they wanted to show us something. We went to Applestone Meat Co. It was really something- a bit like the old Horn and Hardart Automats with glass doors that you can open when you have put money in a slot. Applestone's is open 24 hours a day. I am not sure of the exact story, but it goes roughly like this. Fleishers Grass-Fed Butcher was in Rhinebeck at some point and closed some time ago. They were also in Kingston, I think, after Rhinebeck. It was owned and run by a couple. Kingston also closed. Then they opened Applestone in Stone Ridge. Somewhere in all of this, the couple separated. I think the wife may have been the person who ran the Stone Ridge store. And her husband opened a store in Brooklyn. I think I remember that his father or grandfather had a butcher shop. When the store was in Rhinebeck, we went to it from time to time. I cannot vouch for this narrative, but some of it is correct. Postscript: Tom called to tell us that someone from Butterfield called him because I had left my glasses there. Judy Linn picked them up and gave them to me at the Vassar Student Majors' Critique on March 27th.
Date: March 23, 2019 Saturday

Title: Simon Tosky
Caption: Simon first did his regular chores. After that Simon emptied all the contents out of the newer Volvo, which was full of newspapers, wrappers, bottles and various crap. Next he charged the Volvo station wagon, which has a starting problem from time to time. He then straightened and organized a small area of the basement so that the plumber (see entry March 15, 2019, Will Hauptman). After lunch Simon ran an errand to Adam's to get mint, walnuts, Then he cleaned the inside of the front window of the newer Volvo. After he finished wrapping my drawing for Sweden we got to work on the site, which is what we are doing at this moment
Date: March 18, 2019

Title: March 18, 2019
Caption: In my studio.
Date: March 18, 2019

Title: Billy and Arthur's new house in Williamstown, MA, Lunch. 2 of 2
Caption: We went to have lunch after we looked at the house. The restaurant, Pera Mediterranean Bistro, was passable. See the previous entry.
Date: March 17, 2019 Sunday

Title: Billy and Arthur's new house in Williamstown, MA. 1 of 2
Caption: Billy and Arthur bought a new house in Williamstown, MA about six months ago. We finally got a chance to meet them there and see their house. The house was designed by Charles Moore in about 1980, for a former teacher of Billy's at Williams. They hadn't moved from Pittsfield yet because they were having work done on the Williamstown house. After seeing their new house, we went out for lunch. See the next entry.
Date: March 17, 2019 Sunday

Title: March 15, 2019
Caption: In my studio.
Date: March 15, 2019

Title: Simon Tosky
Caption: Including other things Simon wrapped drawings for shipping to Sweden.
Date: March 15, 2019 Friday

Title: Will Hauptman, Plumber
Caption: We had Will's number on a scrap of paper for a couple of years and have lost track of who gave us his name. He did know a couple of people at Vassar, so possibly thats how we found out about him. There were a few small jobs to be done, but the main issue was unreliable water pressure. He had an idea and is going to bring a tank for us to try out and see if the pressure improves.
Date: March 15, 2019

Title: Simon Tosky
Caption: We met at Adam's Fairacre Farms, Poughkeepsie, instead of at the house. I started shopping and Simon went off to the Post office to mail the plastic framing clips to Sweden. He mailed them to John Rasimus for my upcoming drawing show in May. From the post office he came back to Adam's. When we finished shopping Simon headed home with the groceries and I went to CVS to pick up some medicine. After we were done unpacking the groceries, Simon and I helped Cathy (Murphy) with cooking. The three of us ate sandwiches for lunch that Simon and I brought back from Adams. Simon and I went out back to Cathy's studio to hang up her painting, "Begin Again". We also measured and found wood to extend the step between the higher and lower part of her studio, so she could move her easel and painting more to the left. We were going to build the step extension, but the track saw needed to be charged. We came back to the house and went to work on this site. If the saw chargers early enough, we might get a chance to build the step extension, before Simon goes home.
Date: March 11, 2019

Title: March 11, 2019
Caption: Taken in my heated studio, Hyde Park, NY.

Title: Mercato Osteria Enoteca, Red Hook, NY
Caption: I sat next to Shane at the recent fundraiser for The Barrett Art Center on March 3, 2019 (five entries before this one). Shane and I had run into each other periodically at Vassar. Bryce Daniel, a student in his documentary film class, made a short film about me (see the Bryce Daniel entry from October 14, 2016). I had met Shane's wife, Xinran, briefly on campus. Cathy and I decided that it would be nice to meet Elena and David for dinner since we hadn't seen them for a while, and also invite Shane to see if he and Xinran would like to attend with the four of us. It seemed like a good group of people. So we all met for dinner at Mercato, which turned out to be a good fit. I think everyone had a good time. Lots for everyone to talk about. I had forgotten my camera, and the conditions for photographing with my phone weren't great. So I wound up taking some quite poor photographs. But combined as GIF, they turned out reasonably. Shane's email from later that evening mentioned that Francesco Butoni, the chef-owner of Mercato, was on the "Beat Bobby Flay" television cooking show last week. Bobby Flay won because the judges thought Francesco's seafood d'Avalos was under seasoned. Catherine had that dish, and although the seafood was perfectly cooked, the dish was under seasoned. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following are Shane and David's email messages to me... Shane Omar Slattery-Quintanilla Sun, Mar 17, 11:23 PM (16 hours ago) to me, elena_sisto, david, Xinran Thanks Harry for the dinner invitation and thank you all for a lovely evening in Red Hook. I don't have Cathy's email so please let her know I'd love to reconnect her to Amitava, who is deep in his own drawing/painting practice right now and would love some more friends and mentors to advise him. A pleasure meeting you Elena and David -- please keep in touch. Xinran is heading off soon to Art Basel Hong Kong and won't be back until April, but I'll be around nursing my torn ACL and wrapping up the semester if anyone wants to get another meal or drink. Take care & keep in touch, Shane David Kirkpatrick Tue, Mar 19, 2:50 PM (19 hours ago) to Elena, Xinran, Shane, me Thanks for the note, Shane- It was a wonderful evening and thanks to Harry and Cathy for arranging it. I hope Xinran (and maybe you?) can come to Techonomy NYC on May 14-15. I believe my colleague Caitlin Hamilton already sent her a note with an invitation. Hope to stay in touch David David Kirkpatrick Founder & Editor-in-Chief Techonomy Media I am trying something new, which is to include related emails.
Date: March 10, 2019 Sunday

Title: Simon Tosky
Caption: Simon arrived here after picking up 6 bags of san from Adams fairacre farms. The sand is for spreading on ice and mud to make it less slippery. As soon as he arrived we had him come up to Catherine's (Murphy) studio to help move her painting. He did his regular morning chores. He did some sanding. Then he packaged the clips for shipping to Sweden. The clips are for hanging the drawings up for the show. We had lunch. Simon had Chile I bought and froze from Babette's Kitchen in Millbrook. Catherine and I had that for lunch last night. I had the lefter fruit salad Catherine made for breakfast this morning. After lunch Simon and i went over to my studio, we took photographs of the drawings (in a box) to be shipped to Sweden . So I could send them to Joanna at the Peter Freeman Gallery to get some advise on crating. While I was emailing information to John Rasimus (about the show in Sweden) and working on the site, Simon was measuring the mounted drawings so I could send the sizes to Rasimus for the glass to be cut. I am not exactly sure what we'll do for the remainder of Simon's day. possibly work together on the site.
Date: March 9, 2019

Title: March 9, 2019
Date: March 9, 2019

Title: Ben Busch
Caption: Ben came for a visit on his way from Sherburne, NY to College Park, MD. He arrived wearing a Spartan helmet from the movie "The 300". He told me he wore it all the way from Sherburne to here, and that getting gas and stopping at lights was pretty interesting. I ditched the photograph I took of him by accident, Thus a spartan helmet I got from the internet. I had gone out earlier to buy Mexican sandwiches for lunch, at La Cabineta. Ben and I brought our sandwiches and one for her, up back to Cathys (Catherine Murphy) Studio. She was working on her new painting "Flight". After lunch Ben and I went to Catskill Art & Office to pick up our drawings that were mounted on foam core for my show in Sweden. He left in the mid afternoon to continue his journey.
Date: March 8, 2019 Friday

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