Fall 2024 Folio

FOLIO

FALL 2024 — WINTER 2025

THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS

VISIT THE FOUR ARTS

ESTHER B. O’KEEFFE BUILDING

Art Galleries, Customer Service, and Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium 102 Four Arts Plaza (561) 655-7226

Sunday and Tuesday: 1 to 5 p.m.

Monday, Wednesday-Saturday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed during the summer

CHILDREN’S LIBRARY

(2nd floor, John E. Rovensky Building) 100 Four Arts Plaza (561) 655-2776

Monday-Friday: 10 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.

Saturday (Nov. through April): 10 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.

FITZ EUGENE DIXON EDUCATION BUILDING

Campus on the Lake, Customer Service 240 Cocoanut Row (561) 805-8562

Monday-Friday: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed during the summer

GIOCONDA AND JOSEPH KING LIBRARY

101 Four Arts Plaza (561) 655-2766

Monday-Friday: 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Saturday (Nov. through April): 9 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.

Note: All hours are seasonal and subject to change Visit fourarts.org to confirm hours before visiting

DEMONSTRATION GARDEN AND PHILIP HULITAR SCULPTURE GARDEN

Enter next to King Library, Dixon Education Building, and at Royal Palm Way and Cocoanut Row Daily: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., weather permitting Closed on major holidays and for inclement weather. May close for Four Arts special events

DIRECTIONS

From I-95: Take Okeechobee Boulevard (exit 70) and go east for two miles. Cross the Intracoastal Waterway and make a left turn onto Four Arts Plaza

PARKING

Parking is limited in the lots on The Four Arts campus. Please plan accordingly. Only park at The Four Arts if you are attending programs or visiting the libraries or gardens. Uber / Lyft / Ridesharing: Drop-off and pick-up are available in front of the King Library, 101 Four Arts Plaza

TICKETS

All Four Arts programs require tickets or reservations. To purchase or reserve:

ONLINE: Select the program at fourarts.org or go to tickets.fourarts.org

BY PHONE: Call Customer Service at (561) 655-7226

IN PERSON: Visit a Customer Service desk inside the O’Keeffe or Dixon buildings

All sales are final; no refunds or exchanges. Questions? Email customerservice@fourarts.org.

HOLIDAY PROGRAMS

“A Chanticleer Christmas”

Wednesday, December 4, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.

$40 • No charge for Four Arts members

Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium ■ S&J Lambert Concert Series

Grammy award-winning vocal ensemble Chanticleer is known as the “orchestra of voices” for its unparalleled range and abilities. This holiday season, the group brings its brand-new Christmas program to The Four Arts, with original arrangements of well-known tunes drawn from Classical, Jazz, and Popular traditions. They fluently weave between diverse musical styles to create an evening of wonder and joy.

The Nutcracker

The Magic Flute

Screening, composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Saturday, December 14, 2024 at 1 p.m.

$30 • $25 for Four Arts members $15 for students with valid ID

Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium • The Met Opera Live in HD Encore from 2006 • 1 hour, 55 minutes with no intermission • In English

Enjoy an encore screening of this abridged English-language version of The Magic Flute. Julie Taymor’s whimsical production features a winning ensemble, including tenor Matthew Polenzani, baritone Nathan Gunn, and bass René Pape.

Screening, performed by New York City Ballet

Sunday, December 15, 2024 at 2 p.m.

No charge • Reservations required

Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium

1 hour, 40 minutes with no intermission

Music by Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Choreography by George Balanchine

Experience the wonder of New York City Ballet’s iconic holiday classic on the big screen. In George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker, Tchaikovsky’s beloved melodies transport the young and young at heart to a magical world where mischievous mice besiege a battalion of toy soldiers, and an onstage blizzard leads to an enchanted Land of Sweets. Balanchine’s stunning choreography shines amidst awe-inspiring set pieces, ornate costumes, and grand one-of-a-kind visual effects, like the one-ton Christmas tree that grows to an astonishing 40 feet.

"Carols on the Lawn"

Concert performed by Palm Beach

Atlantic University Chamber Choir Sunday, December 15, 2024 at 4 p.m.

No charge ■ No reservations needed Philip Hulitar Sculpture Garden

Sanda & Jeremiah Lambert Concert Series

Celebrate the holidays in Florida style with Christmas carols on the lawn. Join the Palm Beach Atlantic University Chamber Choir, under the direction of Sonia Santiago, as they present joyful holiday favorites in the beautiful Four Arts gardens.

Photo by Ken Howard

Native Perspectives

Collection amplifies Indigenous voices in an artistic journey through the history of the American West

Special to The Four Arts From gilcrease.org

Past Forward: Native American Art from Gilcrease Museum showcases the extensive collection of Indigenous art from Thomas Gilcrease (1890 –1962), an arts patron and a citizen of the Muscogee Nation. Gilcreaseʼs unprecedented efforts and devotion to Indigenous traditions — continued today by Gilcrease Museum — affirmed these works as vital to American art history. Surveying more than 3,000 years of Native American art, this enriching exhibition encompasses portraiture, archaeological, and archival works, allowing for exploration of visual motifs and shared systems of knowledge that connect different ancestries, time, and space.

Gilcrease, an American oilman and founder of Gilcrease Museum, was of Muscogee (Creek) ancestry and sought to tell the story of the United States through art that emphasized Native cultures and the history of the American West. As scholars and curators increasingly embrace the imperative to foreground Native perspectives, Gilcrease Museum is distinct for having been shaped by the tastes and interests of an Indigenous collector who maintained personal relationships with a number of the Native artists whose works he acquired. Whereas Gilcrease Museum’s holdings of Western art by artists such as Charles Russell and Frederic Remington have been the focus of previous traveling exhibitions, Past Forward is the first to showcase Gilcrease Museum’s remarkable Indigenous art collections.

Past Forward takes a thematic approach to Native American art history, considering ways in which Indigenous artists across time have conceptualized and represented similar subjects. The exhibition is structured around transhistorical themes each featuring two- and three-dimensional Indigenous objects ranging from ancient to contemporary. Works within the first thematic section highlight the use of visual abstraction in Indigenous art and are intended to foster an appreciation of how abstraction plays an integral role in sustaining tribal wisdom across generations. The next section focuses on ceremonial events, which serve in Indigenous communities to ensure the continuity of all creation and to perpetuate the balance of the universe, while the third section examines issues of sovereignty, and how artists have pictured relationships between autonomous communities. Past Forward culminates in an exploration of the ways in which many artists have determinedly negotiated their Indigenous identities in relation to EuroAmerican visual and cultural traditions.

Past Forward: Native American Art from Gilcrease Museum

Saturday, November 23, 2024 through Sunday, January 19, 2025

10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, Wednesday through Saturday ■ 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday and Tuesday (Four Arts members only Tuesdays in January)

$10 ■ No charge for Four Arts members O’Keeffe Building

C o-organized by the American Federation of Arts and Gilcrease Museum

Dolona Roberts (Cherokee, b. 1936), Earth Mother, 1983, silkscreen on paper 28⅜ x 22½ in., Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Gift of Mike Quinn, 14.833. Courtesy Gilcrease Museum and American Federation of Arts.

Joan Hill (Muskogee/Cherokee, 1930), The Voice of the Drum Circles the Sun, 1979, acrylic on canvas. Gift of Maxine Zarrow. Courtesy Gilcrease Museum and American Federation of Arts.

Across all the sections, a small selection of comparative works by Euro-American artists such as Charles Russell and George Catlin will help underline the distinctive visual languages found within Native art that form the exhibition’s primary focus.

In addition to offering an overview of Indigenous visual culture through highlights from Gilcrease Museum, Past Forward also amplifies the perspectives of Native community members, scholars, and artists through the exhibition’s multi-vocal interpretive program and catalogue entries that feature varied Indigenous perspectives. At a time when marginalized peoples across North America are uniting to magnify their voices in the fight for socio-political reform, it is crucial to provide spaces in which members of these communities can present their own histories, cultures, and modes of expression.

Curated by Chelsea M. Herr (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) and spotlighting works created and collected by Native individuals, Past Forward: Native American Art from Gilcrease Museum helps contribute to the widening narrative of American art history.

The Society of the Four Arts is the last of three stops for this traveling exhibition, which was on display from February 16 to April 28, 2024 at the Ackland Art Museum in Chapel Hill, NC, and at the University of Rochester’s Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, New York, from June 1 to August 25, 2024.

Related programs

EXHIBITION LECTURE

Chelsea M. Herr and Janet Catherine Berlo

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.

No charge • Reservations are required

Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium

Join Past Forward’s co-curators Chelsea M. Herr and Janet Catherine Berlo for a lively talk about the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, known as Gilcrease Museum, which houses a comprehensive collection of the art, culture, and history of North America. Herr and Berlo will discuss its role as a cultural hub, the development of the exhibition, and a selection of works on display.

BIOGRAPHY BOOK CLUB

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

Moderated by Dr. Rachel Schipper

Wednesday, December 4, 2024 at 11 a.m.

No charge • Reservations required

King Library

Smith is an American artist born in 1940. Renowned for her powerful paintings, prints, and mixed media works, Smith’s art confronts issues of identity, history, and social justice, offering profound insights into the Native American experience. Her work challenges stereotypes and highlights the resilience and cultural richness of Indigenous peoples, making her a significant figure in the modern art world.

TEEN PROGRAM ■ AGES 12-18

Indigenous Abstraction: Faces and Patterns through Clay

Presented by Kristin Miller

Saturday, January 11, 2025 at 10:30 a.m.

No charge • Reservations required

King Library

Working with visual motifs shown in Past Forward, students will explore the connection between abstraction and wisdom across generations of Indigenous art. Using clay, beads, and paint, students will think about concepts of their own personal identity, pattern, and place in their community to create small abstract portraits with clay.

Anthony Caro (British, 1924-2013), Piece CCCLXXXII, 1977, steel, 32 ½ x 51 x 29 in., donated at the request of Marshall S. Donnelley to honor Dr. Philip Rylands who brought a new focus to Visual Art and the Sculpture of The Society of the Four Arts, 2024.1. The sculpture will be on display near Diana this fall in the Philip Hulitar Sculpture Garden.

Caro’s Piece CCCLXXXII latest gift for Philip Hulitar Sculpture Garden

By Philip Rylands Four Arts President & CEO

It is a pleasure to announce that The Society of the Four Arts has received the gift of a sculpture by Sir Anthony Caro (English, 1924-2013). This was donated by Marshall Donnelley, son of Four Arts’ members and trustees Robert and Miranda Donnelley. Caro’s Piece CCCLXXXII will be on display near the Cocoanut Row entrance to the Philip Hulitar Sculpture Garden, in the vicinity of another important gift from the Donnelley family, Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ Diana.

A work by Tony Caro deserves to be high on any list of desirable acquisitions for a modern sculpture collection, and the Four Arts is grateful.1 He was a major figure in the history of post-World War II western sculpture and it has been said that “After David Smith, Anthony Caro was to be the sculptor who fitted most precisely [Clement] Greenberg’s concept of sculpture”. 2

The enigmatic title invites explanation. ‘Piece’, for Caro, is a generic term for ‘work of sculpture’. The roman numeral 382 places this ‘Piece’ in a long sequence which began in 1966 with the first of his ‘Table Pieces’ (no. I). Piece CCCLXXXII, belongs in a subsection of 32 ‘pieces’, of which it is the 29th. Several of these were also ‘Table Pieces’, but not the Donnelley gift, which Caro designed for placement at ground level.3

Caro’s earliest work, carried out while working in the studio of Henry Moore, was figurative: they were expressive bodies, sometimes in moments of strenuous but semi-static action, such as rolling over, waking up, or taking off a tight pullover. The school of Paris was still dominant in his work (Picasso, Richier, Dubuffet), but even at a time when he was achieving early success he was dissatisfied with the presence of the figure in his art, and became increasingly curious about contemporary American art.

Then he met ‘Clem’ Greenberg in London in 1959. He met him again when he traveled for the first time to the United States later that year. He became acquainted with a group of artists — sculptor David Smith, and painters Ken Noland, Adolph Gottlieb and Robert Motherwell for example. His friendship with Noland in particular, which lasted a lifetime, provoked his breakthrough to abstraction.

Caro’s return to London was marked by a pivot to welded, found steel – precisely what we see in the Donnelley gift. His new, avant-garde work was shown for the first time at London’s Whitechapel Gallery in 1963.4 It placed him in a line of succession from Julio Gonzalez and David Smith.

How should we look at and understand Caro’s work?

The catalogue of the Whitechapel Gallery, by Michael Fried, explained Caro’s art in Greenbergian terms. This meant more than just abstract form or truth to

the art of sculpture (two-dimensionality for paintings and therefore three-dimensionality for sculpture). The components of sculpture, Fried wrote, may be given as ‘object’, ‘gravity’ and ‘gesture’.

Piece CCCLXXXII negates objecthood. It lacks a compositional core, a center which defines its physical presence and compact aesthetic proposition. Meanwhile Caro’s contemporaries in the USA, the Minimalists, were emphasizing objecthood, making it a defining value with box-like forms whose 360o viewpoints and sameness was explicit in their production in series (Donald Judd). These are predictable at one glance, thus draining from the work almost to a minimal degree a basic component of sculpture, that of gesture, or meaning.

A further negation of the sculpture as object was Caro’s celebrated abandoning of the sculpture base, with its distancing message of untouchability (‘work of art’). Giacometti’s walking figures do this, as do David Smith’s works. More: the missing base, with its emphatic statement of weight geometrically and evenly distributed on the ground, implies the absence of gravity. Piece CCCLXXXII has, in fact, an airy lightness, that it shares with major works, the Ledges, of the same year (197778) that were commissioned by I.M. Pei for the East Building of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

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Anthony Caro at the Museo Correr, Venice, 2013. Photo Mike Bruce, courtesy Gagosian Gallery.

Continued from page 7

The circular ‘ring’ element in Piece CCCLXXXII is distinctive. Ian Barker, leading scholar of the work of Tony Caro, writes: “[The ‘ring’ element] went on to be incorporated (at one stage) a year later in the Ledge Piece, 1978, in the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. …. [Piece CCCLXXXII] is an example of Tony exploring the dynamic possibilities of incorporating the ‘ring’ element in his sculpture, perhaps as a way of limbering up to tackling the Ledge Piece in Washington (Tony sadly dropped the ring element in his final edit of the Ledge Piece in situ).”5

We are left with ‘gesture’. Andrew Causey has written: “Caro’s sculptures work as sequences of statements or gestures following from one another empirically, without prescription or closure. There is a suggestion of time lapse in the development of the forms, so that words

like extent and extension, punctuation and grammar … are appropriate.” Caro’s works, Causey continues, “are structures in the way that sentences are structures.”6 A year after Piece CCCLXXXII, in 1978, Caro began a series of small table sculptures called ‘writing pieces’ which are closely related in their forms and ‘gestures’ to the Donnelley sculpture.

One could argue therefore that Piece CCCLXXXII relates to, for example, Rodin’s Age of Bronze (Palm Beach, collection of The Society of the Four Arts), of which meaning is also predicated on gesture – albeit figurative rather than abstract. Nor is it mistaken to read into Caro’s work physical or figurative (human) gesture, that can be interpreted by empathy or metaphor. The figurative element was to become explicit in Caro’s late narrative cycles such as Trojan War (1993-94) and The Last Judgement (1999).

1 For the life and work of Tony Caro, see: Ian Barker, Anthony Caro. Quest for the New Sculpture, Swiridoff Verlag, Künzelsau (Germany), 2004.

2 Andrew Causey. Sculpture since 1945, Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 1998, p. 110.

3 Information generously provided by Ian Barker, to whom thanks.

4 Caro’s major museum exhibitions include a retrospective at the Museum of Modern of Modern Art, New York (1975, travelled to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Museum of Fine Arts), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (1995); Tate Britain, London (2005) and three museums in Pas-de-Calais, France (2008), to accompany the opening of his Chapel of Light at Bourbourg. “Anthony Caro on the Roof” was an installation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2011). In 2012 the Yale Center for British Art presented “Caro: Close Up”. In 1999 his Last Judgement was exhibited during the Venice Biennale (see Ian Barker, ed., The Last Judgement by Anthony Caro, with contributions by Peter Baelz, Anthony Caro, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Nadine Gordimer, Robert Hinde, Philip Rylands, John Spurling, and photographs by David Buckland. Künzelsau, Museum Würth, Verlag Paul Swiridoff, 1999.

5 Email to the author, July 1, 2024.

6 Causey, op. and loc. cit.

Caro’s Piece CCCLXXXII is located near the Cocoanut Row and Palm Beach Way entrance to the Sculpture Garden.

Gil Maurer, Gentleman Painter

By Rebecca A. Dunham

Four Arts Head of Fine Arts & Curator

The Society of the Four Arts celebrates Gilbert C. Maurer during the 2024-25 season with a special campus-wide presentation of his beautiful watercolor paintings. Gil has been a force for growth and creativity at Hearst for over 50 years and is currently a member of Hearst’s board of directors, director of the Hearst Foundations, and a trustee under the estate of William Randolph Hearst. However, he is more than a visionary leader in media and communication — he is also a talented artist.

Gil comes from a distinguished family of artists. Alfred Henry Maurer (1868–1932), for example, has been described as America’s first modernist painter. And Alfred’s father, Louis Maurer (1832–1932), made his living as an engraver, first with Currier and Ives, and later forming his own company. Gil’s preferred medium is watercolor, a portable and easy to clean up medium that allows him to paint anywhere, anytime. His watercolors can be described as “travel memories” as they document his journeys around the world. After making a quick gestural drawing with a fine pen (usually a Micron pen), he mixes his paints and uses a variety of brush sizes to apply the watery paint

The Four Arts Celebrates Gil Maurer

November 23, 2024 through March 30, 2025

Hours vary by buildinggo to fourarts.org to view current hours

No charge

No reservations needed

All buildings

to thick watercolor paper specially designed to absorb it. Gil works in both the wet-on-wet and dry-on-wet techniques. In the former, he wets his paper first, then adds paint to the water to create soft, diffused areas, often allowing the white of the paper to shine through. In the dry-on-wet method, he paints onto dry paper, which is a great way to add layers and details. His subjects vary from architectural studies to landscapes

Above: Gil Maurer in his studio

Left: Gil Maurer, Stockholm

Below: Gil Maurer, Isle of Mull, Scotland

and the people around him, but what unites his disparate works is a sense of place and context. And he paints both on the spot, directly observing his subject, as well as back in his studio.

The Four Arts honors Gil’s leadership and commitment to the arts and the civic values of Palm Beach in this presentation of some of his most notable paintings. They range in date from the 1970s to present day and are organized into thematic groupings in each of the Four Arts’ buildings: views of the United States (O’Keeffe); scenes from France and the United Kingdom (Dixon); images of Italy, Japan, and European capitals (Rovensky); and vistas of Greece and Russia (King Library). In these paintings, Gil brings together his passions for art and communication.

Uri Aran will display the sound work Untitled (Good & Bad) in the gardens from December 1 through January 31.

Aran’s Untitled (Good & Bad) installation enriches visitor experience of walking through the gardens

By Uri Aran Beyer Artist-in-Residence

Generally speaking, my work stems from an interest in how language shapes meaning and experience, as well as its power to establish hierarchies. My sculptural installations often incorporate handmade and found objects arranged on tabletops — creating intricate microcosms that explore issues of organization and categorization. In my drawings and videos, I work with text and develop scenarios based on human emotions projected onto animals.

The sound work Untitled (Good & Bad) explores how we use personification and animal metaphors to define human behavior in our daily conversations. Working with a voice actor who uses a formal, slightly affected pronunciation, I created a sound track that emanates softly from the planting beds and garden. The soundtrack features a man reading a list of creatures, from common ones, like the household cat and the spider, to more wild ones, such the platypus and the shark, each described as “good” or “bad.” Serious and at times comical, the expressionless tone of the actor’s voice clashes with the definition of these creatures as either “good” or “bad,” sparking dialogue about the arbitrary nature of classification in language.

BEYER ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE

Generously supported by Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Beyer

Uri Aran

LECTURE

1 + 1 = 7

Wednesday, January 8, 2025 at 3 p.m.

No charge

Reservations required

Dixon Education Building

WORKSHOP

Exploring Meaning: Image, Text, Sound, and Object in Context

Meets from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., January 3, 6, 10, 13, 15

$395

Dixon Education Building

** This class is for all experience levels **

Wu Han, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center celebrate Felix Mendelssohn

By Wu Han

Four Arts Artistic Advisor for Classical Music

Dear friends, what a privilege to serve as Artistic Advisor for the Classical Music programming for this distinguished Palm Beach institution.

The 2024-25 Season Festival, specially designed for you, is very exciting for me and all my musician colleagues from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, as it is all about one of our favorite composers. This season, we celebrate one of history’s most prodigiously gifted musicians, Felix Mendelssohn.

Mendelssohn was the 19th century’s consummate musician: the leading composer of his generation and its best pianist and organist; a violinist of professional skill; and history’s first great conductor. Mendelssohn moreover immersed himself in literature, the visual arts, theology, and a broad spectrum of other fields. Finally, he rose above the musician’s call of duty and complemented his artistry with a sense of civic responsibility. As the founder and director of music festivals and educational institutions, and through his charitable support of worthy causes, Mendelssohn set a

SANDA & JEREMIAH LAMBERT CONCERT SERIES

Mendelssohn I

Sunday, January 12, 2025 at 3 p.m. A reception follows the concert

Mendelssohn II

Wednesday, January 15, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.

Mendelssohn III

Sunday, January 19, 2025 at 3 p.m.

Tickets to each concert are $40, no charge for Four Arts members Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium

moral example for the life of the complete artist. He would have felt right at home at The Society of the Four Arts.

Our Mendelssohn celebration this year samples all aspects of his chamber music output. A renowned virtuoso, he composed works of dazzling brilliance for all instruments, which you can hear in the first program featuring two spectacular duo sonatas, for violin and cello and piano. To round out this concert, the three musicians combine for one of Mendelssohn’s iconic piano trios, a landmark in the chamber music genre.

The second program pays tribute to two of Mendelssohn’s most important influences: Johann Sebastian Bach whose music he learned, rediscovered and promoted as a teenager and his close friend Robert Schumann. Coupled with their music is a set of Mendelssohn’s beloved “Songs without Words”, for solo piano, and the astonishing “Double Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Quartet” that he composed and performed in his early teens.

Finally, to cap the festival with a crown of glory, comes a program of the most beloved music Mendelssohn ever wrote: one of his early piano quartets, a sampling of his music for Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” the flashy and breathtaking “Andante and Allegro Brillante” for piano, four hands, and perhaps one of the greatest pieces of chamber music from any age, Mendelssohn’s famous “Octet for strings”, composed at the age of sixteen and now beloved by audiences the world over.

Photo by Cherylynn Tsushima

Photo by Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

Wu Han

IN MEMORIAM EDITH ROBB DIXON

Edith Robb Dixon passed away on May 18, 2024 at the age of 91. Mrs. Dixon served as Four Arts’ Board of Trustees Chair from 2007 to 2010, succeeding her husband, Fitz Eugene Dixon Jr., who served as Chairman from 1988 until his death in 2006.

Edith Bruen Robb was born in Philadelphia. She preferred to be called “Edie”. She married Fitz Eugene Dixon Jr. in 1952. The couple lived in Philadelphia, summered in Winter Harbor, Maine, and wintered in Palm Beach.

Mrs. Dixon became a member of the Board of Trustees in 1984 and played an integral role in The Four Arts’ growth, working on the development of buildings and gardens on our campus during her 40 years on the board.

Her most important success, along with her husband, was perhaps the creation of Campus on the Lake education programs in the early 2000s. They negotiated with the Palm Beach County School Board for six years before The Four Arts was able to purchase the former Palm Beach Public School building on the northeast corner of campus. Thanks in part to a most generous leadership gift from Mrs. Dixon, The Four Arts was able to convert the building into a state-ofthe-art center for lifelong learning. When it opened in 2013, it was named the Fitz Eugene Dixon Education Building in honor of the generosity and support of the Dixon family.

Mr. and Mrs. Dixon were “true visionaries who were instrumental in the dramatic expansion of our education program through the creation of Campus on the Lake,” said Patrick Henry, who succeeded Mrs. Dixon as Chairman in 2010.

After the Philip Hulitar Sculpture Garden was damaged by hurricanes in 2004, Mr. and Mrs. Dixon donated Peacock Monument by Dan Ostermiller to the garden to aid in its renovation. Mrs. Dixon was part of a Four Arts contingent that traveled to Las Vegas to see a relocated historic Banyan Tree from the garden installed at the Bellagio Hotel. She was Chairman when the Sculpture Garden reopened in 2007 and donated Recovery by Grainger McKoy to the garden in 2013.

When The Four Arts purchased what became the John E. Rovensky Building in 1992, Mrs. Dixon served on the decorating committee for the new building, which included the brand-new Children’s Library space. Mrs. Dixon served on the Library Committee from 1993 to 2024 and was fondly remembered for taking part in the Children’s Library’s American Farmer Days by holding animals for the children to pet.

“She had so much grace and elegance, she was so gracious to the children and their families,” said Susan Harris, head of the Children’s Library. “She came for many Farmer Day programs and held lots of goats, chickens, and bunnies!” Mrs. Dixon donated the 3-D wooden “Critter” sculpture that is displayed on the north wall in The Children’s Library.

She was on The Four Arts Executive Committee from 2006 to 2015, and was a many time gala co-chair. In addition to serving on all committees during her tenure as Chairman, she served at various times on the Entertainment, Ad Hoc School Construction, Development, and Library committees.

During her lifetime, Mrs. Dixon and her husband were the largest donors to the Society in the history of The Four Arts. The Four Arts is grateful for her life, her dedication and her generosity.

Gavin Glakas, Fitz Eugene Dixon, Jr. with his wife Edith Robb Dixon, 2013, on display in the Dixon Education Building.

THE GARDEN CLUB OF PALM BEACH

Trees of Palm Beach 2023 presented to King Library

The Garden Club of Palm Beach celebrated the 50th anniversary of its book, Historic and Specimen Trees of Palm Beach, by updating the text and producing a new publication.

Trees of Palm Beach 2023 is a limited edition volume featuring 240 pages of color photographs (images by Ray J. Megginson) and produced by King Tree Service. The 2024 folio is a wonderful catalog of historic and specimen trees, with both Latin and common names listed for the convenience of tree enthusiasts.

Trees of Palm Beach 2023, part of a limited edition of 100, is available to view by request in the King Library thanks to The Garden Club of Palm Beach.

Conservation is one of the main interests of The Garden Club of Palm Beach. In 1973 the club proposed the Historic and Specimen Tree Ordinance, which was enacted by the Town Council and became one of the first strict tree protection laws in Florida. The club assisted in a survey identifying and documenting different trees including native trees. Historic designation was given to significant trees. After the club published Historic and Specimen Trees of Palm Beach, a 53-page text listing of trees, the list was updated annually.

Trees of Palm Beach 2023 has been beautifully and visually updated through the efforts of the Garden Club. The book features most of the historic and specimen trees, as well as hundreds of others. It is dedicated to the Garden Club “for their efforts since 1928 that have made the book possible”. The cover features a view of the palm tress on Royal Palm Way.

The Garden Club presented a copy to the King Library over the summer. Patrons can ask to view the book by calling the King Library at (561) 655-2766 or speaking to a King Librarian when visiting.

“We have had such interest in special, rare, and beautiful books,” Director of Libraries Rachel Schipper said, “and we are honored to have Trees of Palm Beach 2023 in our collection. This visual reference must be seen to be fully appreciated.”

Christmas Boutique and Plant Sale

Thursday, November 14 and Friday, November 15, 2024 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. No charge • No reservations needed ■ Dixon Education Building

FOUR ARTS STAFF

Four Arts welcomes Drew Blazure as new Director of Facilities Management

By David Darby

The Four Arts

He was The Society of the Four Arts’ first choice to return to the Four Arts campus for a second time, as he continues to advance in his second career.

Drew Blazure, the new Director of Facilities Management, knows plenty about building renovations — and The Four Arts. “I came here in 2017 when I was working with Conkling and Lewis to work on the King Library renovation,” Blazure said. “I really liked the atmosphere — it was a fresh and exciting time, same as it is now — and I thought the people were very nice. I liked talking to (former President) David Breneman too, because he was an economist.”

Blazure was born in New Jersey and received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from High Point (N.C.) and an MBA from Central Florida. While he still likes to trade stocks for himself, his parents, Gail and Scott, and his brother Trent, he discovered a calling outside finance, especially once he began working for Conkling and Lewis.

“I enjoyed being out of the office,” Blazure said, “and from there I went up the ladder doing construction, became a superintendent. I just enjoy being outside and seeing the progression of your work, seeing what comes together versus inside work, making sure the buildings and grounds are pristine. It’s a neat position in that if I see something out of whack, I can do something about it — I can fix it, something that needs to be trimmed, something that needs to be painted.”

Blazure has worked as a Superintendent for construction firms in Jupiter, Stuart, and Port St. Lucie, learning home construction, supervising crews, managing subcontractors, and prepping structures for electrical, plumbing, and HVAC. These skills are a bonus to The Four Arts as it prepares to renovate the Esther B. O’Keeffe and John E. Rovensky buildings.

“I know I can provide protection for The Four Arts,” Blazure said, “especially having a blueprint-reading background, knowing the construction side of it, knowing what needs to go in versus what doesn’t have to go in. I am looking forward to being the eyes and ears of the organization during the next renovations.”

Blazure spent a few months learning The Four Arts’ facilities management from outgoing director Ron Minnicks, who retired after 32 years of service. Blazure and his wife, Ashley, and their chorkie, Leo, will be living on campus as well.

“I’m looking forward to seeing the activity on the island and how The Four Arts internally functions during season,” Blazure said. “I got to enjoy some of the concerts last year; my wife and I thought they were wonderful; we loved going to them.”

Drew Blazure replaces Ron Minnicks, who retired after 32 years of service. He trained with Minnicks for several months.

Outside of work, Blazure is an avid golfer with a 10 handicap who has volunteered at the PGA Cognizant Classic golf tournament in Palm Beach Gardens. He enjoys watching football and sports, with the NHL’s Florida Panthers and the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers among his favorite teams.

“I feel very fortunate to be here,” Blazure said. “And I am very thankful for my team, thankful to have longtime employee Dan Williams in the transition process. Dan, Luis Cordero, and Ian Campbell are great assets to The Four Arts, and they do a lot more behind the scenes than people know. We were busy this summer and I know we will be busy during season too.”

MORE NEW FACES FOR THE 2024-2025 SEASON

Deb Beckers Accounting Manager

Deb Beckers joined the SOFA in June 2024 as the Accounting Manager. She was raised in Palm Beach County and returned to Florida soon after receiving her accounting degree at Auburn University. She has over 25 years of experience in accounting where she worked long term for PGA of America and The Legend Group. In her spare time, she enjoys baking and spending time with family and friends.

Olivia Klawonn Assistant Registrar and Exhibitions Coordinator

Olivia Klawonn joined this summer as the Assistant Registrar and Exhibitions Coordinator working with Head of Fine Arts Rebecca A. Dunham on the art exhibitions. After graduating from Hofstra University in 2018, Olivia moved to Palm Beach and has worked in the fine arts community since 2019. When Olivia isn’t babysitting the art, she is catching up with family on the phone or rummaging through vinyl record sales.

Miguel Tinoco Ticketing Associate

A native of Caracas, Venezuela, who moved to Florida in 2015, Miguel Tinoco is a graduate of Universidad Monteavila as a Lawyer, and has practiced Corporate Law for more than 15 years. His passion for Western Civilization started at a very young age when he represented Greece and won the International Fair in his school. He has traveled to more than 25 countries and visited the Uffizi, El Prado, and The Louvre. You may find him playing tennis, practicing yoga, or at the King Library.

Four Arts staffers pose for a group picture in September 2024. We look forward to a great 2024-2025 season.

SANDA & JEREMIAH LAMBERT CONCERT SERIES

Meet the Music! “Fantastic Felix”

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Saturday, January 18, 2025 at 2 p.m.

No charge • Reservations required • Family-friendly

Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium

What would an orchestra of insects and tiny animals sound like? Felix Mendelssohn’s Octet for Strings, which he composed when he was 16 years old, has a magical scherzo, a musical party inspired by a vision of an orchestra of frogs, mosquitoes, flies, and crickets, and a bagpipe that blows soap bubbles. When dawn breaks, all of this vanishes. Between the ages of 11 and 14, Felix Mendelssohn wrote over 100 pieces of music — including piano pieces, chamber music, songs, choral pieces, symphonies, and operas. The 16-year-old Felix composed the magical Octet for Strings that is still one of the most beloved pieces of chamber music in the world today. Inspector Pulse, the world’s greatest and only private ear (investigator of musical mysteries), is inspired by the sound of a fly and soon discovers that he was not the first musician to feel the buzz.

Sir Stephen Hough Piano

Sunday, January 26, 2025 at 3 p.m.

$40 • No charge for Four Arts members

Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium

Sir Stephen Hough, recently knighted by King Charles, presents music by some of the greatest pianists in history. The B minor sonatas of Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt re-defined what the keyboard could do in the Romantic era. And Cécile Chaminade, writing a few decades later, penned virtuosic piano pieces that took her on tour around the world, turning her into one of the most popular composers in early 20th century America.

SPECIAL PRESENTATION

Screening: Titanic: The Musical

Book by Peter Stone

Music and Lyrics by Maury Yeston

Saturday, January 4, 2025 at 2 p.m.

$30 • $25 for Four Arts members ■ 15 for students with valid ID ■ Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium

2 hours, 25 minutes with one intermission

This five-time Tony Award winner is ‘Breathtaking’ (The Guardian) and ‘Magnificent’ (The Telegraph). A stunning and stirring production recounting the hopes, dreams and aspirations of her passengers, from the wealthy first class to the third class dreaming of a new life in America.

Photo by Cherylynn Tsushima

Photo by Sim Canetty-Clarke

Photo by Pamela Raith

THE MET: LIVE IN HD

Tosca

by Giacomo Puccini

Saturday, November 23, 2024 at 1 p.m.

$30 • $25 for Four Arts members ■ $15 for students with valid ID

Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium 3 hours, 28 minutes with two intermissions

Extraordinary Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen stars as the passionate title diva in David McVicar’s thrilling production. British-Italian tenor Freddie De Tommaso makes his eagerly anticipated company debut as Tosca’s revolutionary lover, Cavaradossi, and powerhouse American baritone Quinn Kelsey is the sadistic chief of police Scarpia. Maestro Xian Zhang conducts the electrifying score, which features some of Puccini’s most memorable melodies.

Aida

by Giuseppe Verdi

Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:30 p.m.

$30 • $25 for Four Arts members ■ $15 for students with valid ID

Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium

3 hours, 38 minutes with one intermission

American soprano Angel Blue headlines as the Ethiopian princess torn between love and country in a new production of Verdi’s Aida by Michael Mayer that brings audiences inside the towering pyramids and gilded tombs of ancient Egypt with intricate projections and dazzling animations. Romanian-Hungarian mezzo-soprano Judit Kutasi also stars as Aida’s rival, Amneris, alongside Polish tenor Piotr Beczała as the soldier Radamès — completing opera’s greatest love triangle. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium to conduct.

EXHIBITION ON SCREEN

Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers

Saturday, December 7, 2024 at 2 p.m.

$20 • $15 for Four Arts members or students

Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium

1 hour, 30 minutes with no intermission

Directed by David Bickerstaff

Focusing on Van Gogh’s unique creative process, this documentary explores the artist’s years in the south of France, where he revolutionized his style. Van Gogh became consumed with a passion for storytelling in his art, turning the world around him into vibrant, idealized spaces and symbolic characters.

Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night Over the Rhône, 1889.

Photo by Paola

Photo by Marty Sohl / Met Opera

FRIDAY FILMS

Select Fridays at 2, 4:30 or 5:30 p.m.

• Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium

Tickets are available in advance and at the door 30 minutes before each screening

Summerland

Friday, December 6, 2024 at 2 and 5:30 p.m.

$10 • No charge for Four Arts members

2020 • PG • 1 hour, 39 minutes

Alice is a reclusive writer, resigned to life in Southern England while World War II rages. Surprised by a young London evacuee on her doorstep, her initial resistance softens as the two warm to each other. Gemma Arterton and Tom Courtenay star in this intensely emotional story of love’s endurance in trying times

Driving Madeleine

Friday, January 3, 2025 at 2 and 5:30 p.m.

$10

• No charge for Four Arts members 2022 • Not rated • 1 hour, 31 minutes In French with English subtitles

When Madeleine (Line Renaud) leaves her small house to enter a nursing home on the other side of Paris, taxi driver Charles (Dany Boon) comes to pick her up. Given that she is in no hurry to reach her destination, she asks him to go to places in the capital which have counted in her life.

Sharper

Friday, January 17, 2025 at 2 and 5:30 p.m.

$10

• No charge for Four Arts members 2023 • R • 1 hour, 56 minutes

Taking Venice

Friday, December 13, 2024 at 4:30 p.m. only

$10 • No charge for Four Arts members

2023 • Not rated • 1 hour, 38 minutes

Q&A follows with Four Arts’ Philip Rylands

At the height of the Cold War, the US government wants to fight Communism with culture. In 1964, the Venice Biennale becomes the site of political scandal. To promote democracy, the US entry embarks on a daring plan to make Robert Rauschenberg the winner of the Grand Prize. Their efforts leave the international press crying foul and Rauschenberg questioning the politics of nationalism.

Plastic Earth

Friday, January 10, 2025 at 4:30 p.m. only

$10 • No charge for Four Arts members

2023 • Not rated ■ 1 hour, 40 minutes

Q&A follows with Solid Waste Authority’s Jessica Winter

Plastic production coming from fossil-based sources continues to rise worldwide. Follow a concerned mother on a journey to uncover the full story of this problem and the innovative solutions it requires. Hosted by comedian Rob Riggle, first-hand insights explain how we can get this pressing issue under control.

Past Lives

Friday, January 24, 2025 **at 2 p.m. only**

$10

• No charge for Four Arts members 2023 • PG-13 • 1 hour, 45 minutes

Motivations are suspicious, and expectations become chaotic, as a con artist takes on Manhattan billionaires. Starring Julianne Moore, Sebastian Stan, and John Lithgow, no one is who they seem in this neo-noir New York City thriller presented in nonlinear vignettes, each focusing on different characters.

In English and Korean, Mandarin, and French with English subtitles

Nora and Hae Sung, deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.

ESTHER B. O’KEEFFE SPEAKERS SERIES

Tuesdays at 3 p.m. • Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium

Reservations required for Four Arts members at no charge

Public tickets ($50) go on sale six days before each presentation, subject to availability

Parking at The Four Arts on Tuesday afternoons is limited to Four Arts members with this season’s Four Arts parking pass. Parking is not available for nonmembers.

Wilbur Ross

‘Risks and Returns: Creating Success in Business and Life’ best-selling book

Tuesday, January 7, 2025 at 3 p.m.

The John R. Donnell Memorial Lecture

Wilbur L. Ross, Jr. served as Secretary of Commerce in the Trump administration following 55 years of experience in investment banking and private equity. As Secretary he advised on commercial and economic affairs, and helped U.S. entrepreneurs create jobs and opportunity. Over the course of his career, Ross restructured more than $400 billion in assets, earning him a distinguished reputation on Wall Street. In 2011, Bloomberg Markets named him one of the 50 most influential people in global finance. Ross is the author of the USA Today best-seller Risks and Returns: Creating Success in Business and Life.

David Sinclair

Lifespan: Why We Age and Why We Don’t Have To

Tuesday, January 21, 2025 at 3 p.m.

The Harold and Helen Bernstein Memorial Lecture

Leading researcher on aging and best-selling author Professor

David Sinclair is regarded as the world’s foremost expert on human longevity. A professor in the Genetics Department at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Sinclair heads a leading research lab that has discovered why we age and how to control it. He is the inventor on more than 50 patents, has published over 180 papers that have been cited 95,000 times, and is the author of The New York Times best-seller Lifespan: Why We Age and Why We Don’t Have To.” Dr. Sinclair is a serial entrepreneur who has cofounded more than a dozen successful companies.

Amy Walter

The 2024 U.S. Election: What Happened? What’s Next?

Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 3 p.m.

The Beatrice and Randolph Guthrie Lecture

For more than 25 years, Amy Walter has built a reputation as an accurate, objective, and insightful political analyst with unparalleled access to campaign insiders and decision-makers. One of Washington’s “Most Powerful Women” in 2023 & 2021, she is the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter, where she provides analysis of the issues, trends and events that shape the political environment. As a contributor to the PBS “NewsHour” she provides weekly political analysis for the popular Politics Monday segment and is a featured contributor to their Election coverage events.

Senator Phil Gramm

The Myth of American Inequality: How Government Biases Policy

Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at 3 p.m.

The Samuel J. Heyman Memorial Lecture

Phil Gramm served six years in the US House and 18 years in the US Senate. His legislative record includes landmark bills like the Gramm-Latta Budget, which reduced federal spending, rebuilt national defense and mandated the Reagan tax cut. Gramm joined Lone Star Funds as Vice Chairman in December of 2012. Gramm is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in economics, the subject he taught at Texas A&M for 12 years. He has published numerous articles and books, including The Myth of American Inequality in 2022.

MASTERS OLD & NEW SERIES

Philip Rylands, Ph.D.

Giovanni Bellini

Thursday, December 19, 2024 at 3 p.m.

$35 • Dixon Education Building

Giovanni Bellini (c. 1426–1516) was the foremost Venetian painter of the second half of the 15th century. Almost singlehandedly he carried Venetian art out of its late Gothic period through the early Renaissance to the threshold of the High Renaissance. United States museums own two of his greatest paintings: the Frick St. Francis (New York) and The Feast of the Gods (National Gallery of Art). A series of Venice altarpieces scan his progression as artifex of Early and High Venetian Renaissance painting, a process brought to fruition by accomplished pupils such as Giorgione, Sebastiano del Piombo and Titian. His adoption of oil painting (as opposed to the use of egg tempera) in the 1470s was a turning point in Italian art history. Dr. Philip Rylands is the President and CEO of The Society of the Four Arts.

Annie Cohen-Solal, Ph.D.

Deconstructing the Myth of Pablo Picasso

Thursday, January 9, 2025 at 3 p.m.

$35 • Dixon Education Building • Book signing to follow

Before Picasso became the iconic artist now celebrated as one of France’s leading figures, he was constantly surveilled by the police. In the Prix Femina 2021 book Picasso the Foreigner: An Artist in France 1900-1973, Picasso emerges as an artist ahead of his time not only aesthetically but politically, one who ignored national modes in favor of contemporary cosmopolitan forms. Dr. Annie Cohen-Solal reveals how, in a period encompassing the brutality of World War I, the Nazi occupation, and Cold War rivalries, Picasso strategized and fought to preserve his agency, eventually leaving Paris for good in 1955. Dr. CohenSolal is an award-winning writer, historian, cultural diplomat and global public intellectual. She holds multiple university positions, has curated a dozen shows, published 10 books, and continues avidly to research the interactions between art, literature and society with an intercultural twist.

Gloria Groom, Ph.D.

Gustave Caillebotte:

Painting his World

Thursday, January 30, 2025 at 3 p.m.

$35 • Dixon Education Building

Often referred to as the “unknown Impressionist,” Gustave Caillebotte’s art is much more than meets the eye. His seemingly straightforward and narrative paintings are much more nuanced when seen in the context of the various aspects of his life that comprised his perception of manhood in the French Third Republic. Dr. Gloria Groom, Chair of Painting and Sculpture and the David and Mary Winton Green Curator at The Art Institute of Chicago, will be discussing the Institute’s 2025 exhibit in collaboration with the Getty that will explore the artist’s most iconic images through the lens of fraternité or brotherhood in English.

Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877, oil on canvas, Art Institute of Chicago.

Giovanni Bellini, Madonna and Child, 1510, oil on panel, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan.

CREATING A NATION

Joanne Freeman, Ph.D.

The Founders, Some Fighters, and Us

Monday, December 9, 2024 at 3 p.m.

$200 for four-part series

Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium

Newt Gingrich, Ph.D. Journey to America

Monday, January 6, 2025 at 3 p.m.

$200 for four-part series

Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium

The Founding Generation created a rare democratic republic in a world of monarchies based on debate, compromise, and public opinion. In the first half of the nineteenth century, they tested this system, leading to civil war, highlighted by physical violence in Congress. Dr. Joanne Freeman, Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University examines what these events reveal about American politics and democracy, past and present. Freeman authored the award-winning Affairs of Honor and edited Alexander Hamilton: Writings and The Essential Hamilton. Her latest book, The Field of Blood, was a Lincoln Prize finalist and a New York Times “best book.” She co-hosted the podcast “Now & Then” with Heather Cox Richardson and hosts the weekly webcast “History Matters.”

David Nasaw, Ph.D.

Newt Gingrich, a distinguished historian and former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, brings extensive knowledge and experience. As Chairman of Gingrich 360, he shapes public discourse with multimedia productions and consulting. His expertise spans American history, military affairs, and international relations. He has authored 41 books, was the architect of the “Contract with America,” a Fox News contributor, host of the “Newt’s World” podcast, and a 2012 Republican Presidential candidate. In this lecture, Dr. Gingrich will explore how America organized itself post-Declaration of Independence, triumphed over the British Empire, and laid the foundation for its future prosperity.

CREATING LEGACIES

Andrew Carnegie: Making Sense of Making Millions

Friday, January 24, 2025 at 5 p.m.

$20 • No charge for Four Arts members

Dixon Education Building

Presented in partnership with the New-York Historical Society

Andrew Carnegie arrived in the US from Scotland at 13 with two years of schooling, starting as a bobbin boy in a cotton mill. He later worked as a telegraph messenger and Pennsylvania Railroad operator before founding a bridge-building and iron business at 30. By his thirties, he was a millionaire, and by his sixties, he was the world’s richest man. Carnegie used his fortune to build libraries and museums. Join Dr. David Nasaw, Professor of History Emeritus at CUNY, as he explores Carnegie’s legacy.

Rufus Bird

Princes Among Collectors the Rothschild Taste in Art

Monday, January 27, 2025 at 3 p.m.

$20 • No charge for Four Arts members

Dixon Education Building

The Rothschild family gained prominence and wealth as 19th-century bankers and financiers to European states. Mayer Amschel Rothschild’s five sons operated across Europe, becoming a formidable force in international finance. Their wealth led to grand houses and a competitive drive to acquire fine art, resulting in the distinctive “goût Rothschild” style. This talk explores the origins and evolution of the Rothschilds’ art collecting. Rufus Bird, former Surveyor of the Queen’s Works of Art, will illuminate this remarkable history.

CAMPUS ON THE LAKE

Julie Huber, Ph.D. and Timothy Shank, Ph.D.

New Insights into Life in the Deep Ocean

Monday, November 18, 2024 at 3 p.m.

$20 • No charge for Four Arts members

Dixon Education Building

Generously supported by Chilton Trust

The ocean, spanning 70% of the planet, harbors some of Earth’s most extreme environments, yet only around 20% has been explored. Its impact is profound, serving as the linchpin of Earth’s climate system by regulating the weather and sequestering carbon. Join oceanographer Dr. Julie Huber and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) deep-sea biologist Dr. Timothy Shank for a discussion on cutting-edge research in these extreme ocean environments. They will also explore innovative collaborations aimed at probing the aquatic worlds of our solar system.

Aldous Bertram, Ph.D.

Dragons & Pagodas: A Celebration of Chinoiserie

Monday, December 2, 2024 at 3 p.m.

$20 • No charge for Four Arts members

Dixon Education Building • Book signing to follow

Art historian and artist Aldous Bertram has long been captivated by chinoiserie, Western art inspired by an imagined China. His book Dragons & Pagodas is organized by themes like porcelain, color, flora, fauna, and architecture. Each chapter brims with images from grand European palaces to modern rooms adorned in floral wallpaper. Complete with Bertram’s own watercolors and collages, the book is an irresistible example of chinoiserie itself.

René Silvin

Katharine Hepburn: Talented, Stylish and Spirited

Monday, December 16, 2024 at 3 p.m.

$20 • No charge for Four Arts members

Dixon Education Building

Born into a prominent New England family, fourtime Academy Award winning Katharine Hepburn was known as headstrong and spirited. She mostly played roles which matched this image and would eventually be named “the greatest female star in classic Hollywood cinema” by the American Film Institute. Historian and lecturer René Silvin will share personal anecdotes of Katharine Hepburn and bring context to her extremely private life through audio, interview clips and recount his experience meeting her in 1982.

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Luis Lamar / WHOI

A safety diver clears HOV Alvin before a dive in 2018.

Madeleine Deschamps, Ph.D.

Art Deco Crosses the Atlantic: Elegance and Speed in Turbulent Times

Monday, January 13, 2025 at 3 p.m.

$20 • No charge for Four Arts members

Dixon Education Building

A new style emerged in France before WWI and thrived in the 1920s, revolutionizing crafts, architecture, and industrial design. From cars to household items, it transformed everyday objects. Forward-thinking professionals like engineers, architects, and graphic artists played pivotal roles in this evolution. In an illustrated lecture, art historian, curator, and editor Dr. Madeleine Deschamps will explore the development of Art Deco on both sides of the Atlantic, focusing on its impact and significance.

1882–1964 Paris), The MET.

Tomorrow’s Breakthroughs Today Scientific Symposium Series

World-class scientists discuss the path toward new, cutting-edge treatments for Alzheimer’s disease and share the latest breaking updates on their research with moderator Dr. Howard Fillit, Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer of the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF).

Nir Barzilai, MD

Targeting Aging to Defeat Alzheimer’s

Wednesday, January 15th, 2025 at 3 p.m.

$20 • No charge for Four Arts members

Dixon Education Building

Presented by the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation in partnership with Heidi and Tom McWilliams

Aging is the main risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Nir Barzilai, Professor of Medicine and Genetics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and President of the Academy for Health and Lifespan Research, will discuss his efforts to develop methods to target the biology of aging, including through his “Targeting Aging with Metformin” (TAME) study, which aims to prove that a single drug can combat multiple diseases associated with aging and receive FDA approval for targeting aging.

Rufus Bird

St. James’s Palace: From Leper Hospital to Royal Court

Wednesday, January 22, 2025 at 3 p.m.

$20 • No charge for Four Arts members

Dixon Education Building

Book signing to follow

In his book, St. James’s Palace: From Leper Hospital to Royal Court, Rufus Bird explores the history of this lesser-known royal residence. Serving as the official residence of the British monarch from 1698 to 1837, St. James’s Palace played a crucial role in London’s development. Bird, former Surveyor of the Queen’s Works of Art, and current consultant at Gurr Johns, brings to life the palace’s transformation and historical significance.

Rufus Bird in The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, November 2019.

Photo © Julian Calder

History of Navigation Mural, Jean Dupas (French, Bourdeaux

FOUR ARTS CONTEMPORARIES

Tuesdays at 5:30 p.m.

• Dixon Education Building

$20 • No charge for Four Arts contemporaries and members • Book signings follow

The Contemporaries’ mission is to educate, enlighten, and inspire with thought-provoking discussions from the fields of science, contemporary culture, media, and the arts. Programming is geared toward younger supporters and parents aged 21 to 49.

Frank H. McCourt Jr.

Our Biggest Fight: Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age

Tuesday, December 10, 2024 at 5:30 p.m.

Frank H. McCourt, Jr. is the executive chairman of McCourt Global, a private family enterprise working across the real estate, sports, technology, media, and capital investment industries. Building upon McCourt’s ongoing work as founder Project Liberty – a $500-million initiative to create a better, healthier internet – Our Biggest Fight addresses the growing threat today’s highly centralized internet infrastructure presents to democracy, youth mental health, and individual data rights.

Catherine Morris

More Than Getting Out the Ladies: Feminist Curating at the Brooklyn Museum

Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at 5:30 p.m.

Taylor Hagood, Ph.D.

The Shakespearean Comedy

Mondays from 5:30 to 7 p.m.

$125 for 4-part series or $35 per lecture

Dixon Education Building

January 13: Mix-ups and Shenanigans

February 10: Love and Masking

March 17: The Problems

April 14: The Romances

Brooklyn Museum Senior Curator Catherine Morris will discuss her work at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. She will highlight curatorial methods that aim to change, rather than simply revise, our understanding of history by featuring exhibitions that go beyond adding women artists to the existing art historical canon. She will also address the intersection of curating exhibitions and building collections. Morris has curated exhibitions for acclaimed artists like Elizabeth Catlett, Nona Faustine, Lorraine O’Grady and Judith Scott.

MASTER CLASSES

Florida Atlantic University professor Taylor Hagood will discuss the function and form of comedy for Shakespeare and his time as well as the relevance of his comedic visions in our own time.

Jeffrey Morton, Ph.D.

American Foreign Policy

Thursdays from 3 to 4:30 p.m.

$125 for 4-part series or $35 per lecture

Dixon Education Building

January 23: Cyprus

February 27: China & Latin America

March 20: The International Criminal Court (ICC)

April 17: Globalization in Decline

Dr. Jeffrey Morton has lectured nationally on matters relating to U.S. foreign policy and is the recipient of the FAU Researcher of the Year Award, Talon Service Award, and was the 2019 FAU Distinguished Teacher of the Year.

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Mr. and Mrs. Howard Kessler

Mr. and Mrs. Peter D. Kiernan III

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen P. Kimsey

Mr. Michael Kluger and Ms. Heidi Greene

Mr. and Dr. John D. Koch

Mr. John H. Krehbiel Jr. and Mrs. Karen Gray-Krehbiel

Mr. and Dr. Jay Frederick Krehbiel

Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah D. Lambert

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Lane

Mr. and Mrs. Stallworth M. Larson

Mr. and Mrs. Leonard A. Lauder

Mr. and Mrs. D. Christopher Le Vine

Ambassador and Mrs. Howard H. Leach

Larry Leeds and Ginger Feuer-Leeds

Betty and John Levin

Mr. and Mrs. Paul S. Levy

Ambassador and Mrs. John L. Loeb Jr.

Ms. Patty Lowdon

Mrs. Linda Macaulay

Mr. and Mrs. David S. Mack

Mr. and Mrs. William L. Mack

Mr.and Mrs. David Mandelbaum

Mr. Michael Margolis and Mrs. Mitra Mujica-Margolis

Mr. and Mrs. Morris Mark

Mr. and Mrs. Dana Martin

Annual giving donations are defined as tax-deductible gifts made in addition to membership dues. Donations are recognized during the fiscal year in which they are received, from July 1 through June 30. Gifts to capital campaigns or special projects are much appreciated and recognized separately.

DONORS,

Annual giving donations received from July 1 through October 18, 2024

Mr. and Mrs. William M. Matthews

Mr. Gilbert C. Maurer

Mr. John J. McAtee Jr.

Ambassador Bonnie McElveenHunter and Mr. Gil Kemp

Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Meyercord, III

Jack and Goldie Wolfe Miller Fund

Mr. and Mrs. Henry S. Miller

Mrs. John A. Moran

Ms. Annette Nazareth and Mr. Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. John Nichols

Ms. Suzanne Niedland

Ms. Rochelle Ohrstrom

Mr. and Mrs. Peter B. Orthwein

Mr. and Mrs. Preben Ostberg

Mr. and Mrs. Carl Panattoni

Mrs. William G. Pannill

Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Pantzer

Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Pao

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher D. Pappas

Mr. and Mrs. Gary L. Patsley

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Payne

Mr. Thomas Peterffy and Mrs. Lynne Wheat

Mr. Kenn Pfrengle

Mr. and Mrs. John C. Phelan

Mr. and Mrs. Joel I. Picket

Mrs. John J. Pohanka

Mr. and Mrs. Louis Polk

Mrs. Gabriela Porges and Mr. David Porges

Mrs. Wendell Beecher Priem

Mr. and Mrs. Gregory J. Purcell

Ms. Bambi Putnam

Dr. and Mrs. Nido R. Qubein

Ambassador and Mrs. John Rakolta Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. David Reyes

Mr. and Mrs. J. Christopher Reyes

Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Reynolds

Mr. and Mrs. Clifton S. Robbins

Mr. and Mrs. Brian L. Roberts

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas E. Rogers

Mr. E. John Rosenwald Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Burke Ross Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Royce

Mr. and Mrs. Matthew E. Rubel

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Rutherfoord Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Salomon

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis A. Sanders

Mrs. Thomas A. Saunders III

Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Schwab

Mr. and Mrs. John Sculley

Mr. and Mrs. Paul C. Shiverick

Mr. Alan A. Shuch and Ms. Leslie Wohlman Himmel

Mr. and Mrs. Brian Simmons

Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Simmons

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Phillips Small

Mr. and Mrs. Randall D. Smith

Thomas and Diane Smith

Honorable Lesly S. Smith

Mr. and Mrs. Robert N. Snyder

Mrs. Daisy M. Soros

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Sosnow

Mr. and Mrs. William J. Soter

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Spahn

Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Stolz

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Strauss

Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Teagle III

Mr. and Mrs. William R. Tiefel

Mrs. Jane H. Told

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Toll

Mr. and Mrs. W. James Tozer, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Treadway

Mr. and Mrs. Byron D. Trott

Mr. and Mrs. Steven Trulaske

Kathryn and Leo Vecellio

Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Verbinnen

Mr. and Mrs. Royall Victor III

Mrs. Carlo Vittorini

Mrs. Catharine Warren and Mr. Bradley Geist

Mrs. Susan H. Waterfall

Mrs. J. William Weeks

Mr. Karl Wellner and Mrs. Deborah Norville Wellner

Mrs. William R. Wister Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Steve Wynn

Mr. and Mrs. John A. Zenko

Mr. and Mrs. Barry L. Zubrow

BENEFACTORS COUNCIL

Gifts from members to The Four Arts of $10,000 to $24,999 per year

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Anbinder

Ms. Alexandra Hufty Anlyan

Mr. and Mrs. Neil L. Aronstam

Mr. and Mrs. George Asch

Mr. and Mrs. E. William Aylward

Mrs. Christina Baker

Mr. and Mrs. Jon Baker

Mr. and Mrs. Stuart David Baker

Mr. and Mrs. John Wallis Ballantine

Mr. and Mrs. Carlo Barel di Sant’Albano

Mr. and Mrs. Tom Barrat

Dr. Diana Barrett and Mr. Robert Vila

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Bartram

Mr. Arthur Bauernfeind and Mrs. Diana Nicosia

Mr. and Mrs. Eugene P. Beard

Mrs. Charlotte Beers and Mr. Alexander McQueen Quattlebaum

Suzanne Reynolds & Lars Peterson

Mr. and Mrs. Gene M. Bernstein

Mr. James D. Berwind and Mr. Kevin F. Clark

Mr. and Mrs. William Earle Betts III

Mr. and Mrs. Anthony M. Beyer

Mrs. Friederike Kemp Biggs

Mrs. Charles Bilezikian

Mrs. Marion Black

Mr. and Mrs. Harold Blumenstein

Mr. and Mrs. John Blundin

Mr. James R. Borynack and Mr. Adolfo Zaralegui

Mr. and Mrs. Dennis C. Bottorff

Mr. and Mrs. J. Thomas Bowler Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. William J. Branstrom III

Ms. Deborah A. Bricker

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Brickley

Mr. and Mrs. John G. Brim

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Brodsky

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bronfman

Annual giving donations are defined as tax-deductible gifts made in addition to membership dues. Donations are recognized during the fiscal year in which they are received, from July 1 through June 30. Gifts to capital campaigns or special projects are much appreciated and recognized separately.

Dr. Jeffrey Alan Brown and Mrs. Rory

Shanley-Brown

Mrs. Nancy M. Brown and Mr. Leonardo Radomile

Mrs. Marjorie Buckley

Mr. and Mrs. J. Gary Burkhead

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Burr

Mr. Brian Burry and Mrs. Jeanne Nicastri

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Buxton

Mr. Tyler R. Cain

Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Callahan

Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey S. Caraboolad

Mrs. Jane Carroll

Mr. and Mrs. John Victor Ceriale

Mrs. Arlene Cherner

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Cigarran

Dr. and Mrs. Carmel Cohen

Mr. and Mrs. Larry Cole

Mr. and Mrs. Denis P. Coleman Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. John T. Collins

Mrs. Elfriede Collis

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Condron

Mr. and Mrs. Eugene P. Conese Jr.

Ms. Anita Cosgrove

Mrs. Heidi Cox

Mr. and Mrs. Howard Cox

Mr. and Mrs. John F. Cregan

Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Cunniffe

Mr. and Mrs. Alan Curtis

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Daft

Mrs. John H. Daniels

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Davis

General Pete Dawkins and Ambassador Mary M. Dawkins

Mr. Nathaniel B. Day

Mr. and Mrs. Lodewijk De Vink

Mrs. J. Simpson Dean Jr.

Mrs. Barbara Deane

Mr. and Mrs. William N. Deatherage

Ms. Christina Dennis

Dr. and Mrs. David A. Dooley

Mr. and Mrs. David Dorman

Mr. John Dragisic

Mrs. Rodman L. Drake

Mr. and Mrs. Carl E. Dranoff

Mr. and Mrs. John G. Drosdick

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Durst

Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Edlavitch

Ambassador and Mrs. Edward E. Elson

Mr. Edward A. Emerson

Mr. and Mrs. Alfred B. Engelberg

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Eyre Jr.

Mrs. Shannon Fairbanks and Mr. Newman T. Halvorson, Jr.

Mr. Brent Feigenbaum and Mr. Frank Morgan II, MBE

Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Feuer

Mr. John D. Firestone

Ambassador and Mrs. Richard Fisher

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Flaherty

Mr. and Mrs. Lee Folger

Mr. and Mrs. James C. Foster

Mr. and Mrs. Reeder R. Fox

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Freeburg

Mrs. Cynthia Friedman

Mr. and Mrs. David W. Frisbie

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Frisbie

Mr. and Mrs. George Fugelsang

Mr. and Mrs. Mario Gabelli

Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin S. Gambill Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Peter N. Geisler Sr.

Dr. Nancy Genieser

Mr. and Mrs. William Georgas

Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Georgescu

Mr. Bernard Gewirz

Mr. and Mrs. Robert V. Gilbane

Mrs. David H. Gilmour

Mrs. Jay Goldberg

Mr. and Mrs. John Golden

Mr. and Mrs. Peter W. Gonzalez

Mr. and Mrs. Melvin R. Goodes

Mrs. Darcy Gould

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Graber

Mr. and Mrs. John Rovensky Grace

Mrs. Robert M. Grace

Mrs. Adele R. Grant

Mr. and Mrs. Haynes G. Griffin

Mr. and Mrs. William S. Gubelmann

Mrs. Ursula L. Gwynne

Mr. and Mrs. John Halpern

Mr. and Mrs. Roger Clark Hamilton

Mr. and Mrs. S. Matthews V. Hamilton Jr.

Mrs. William Hersey Hamm III

Mr. and Mrs. Torrence C. Harder

Mr. and Mrs. Cameron M. Harris

Mrs. J. Ira Harris

Mr. and Mrs. William B. Harrison Jr.

Mrs. Mai Hallingby Harrison

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Hassen

Mr. and Mrs. George K. Hendrick III

Ms. Heather Henry

Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Henry

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hermann Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hershaft

Dr. Peter N. Heydon

Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Hill III

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hill III

Mrs. Peter H. Hill

Ms. Leslie Hindman

Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Holton

Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Honeyman Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. W. Todd Houser

Mrs. Pamela Howard and Mr. Edwin Laffey

Mr. and Mrs. Barry Hoyt

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Imbs

Mr. and Mrs. Laban P. Jackson

Mr. and Mrs. Michael F. Jackson

Mr. and Mrs. Herbert H. Jacobi

Mr. and Mrs. Martin D. Jacobson

Ms. Ann Folliss Jeffery and Mr. Ralph E. Watson

Ambassador and Mrs. Robert W. Johnson IV

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas S. Johnson

Mr. John W. Johnston and Mrs. Marigil Walsh

Mr. and Mrs. William Johnston

Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Jones

Mr. and Mrs. John W. Jordan II

Mrs. Robert B. Judell

Mr. and Mrs. James S. Karp

Mrs. Jayne T. Keith

Mrs. Jorie Butler Kent

Mrs. Stanley A. Knapp

Mr. Rick Knop

Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Kohl

Mr. Michael Kovner and Mr. Jean de Montaillou

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kraus

Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Kravis

Mrs. H. Frederick Krimendahl II

Mr. and Mrs. Peter E. Lacaillade

Mrs. Linda Landis

Mrs. William Lane

Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Warren Lang Jr.

Ms. Bonnie Lautenberg

Mr. and Mrs. William L. Leatherman

Mr. Joseph Ledbetter

Ms. Regina A. Lee

Mrs. H. Irwin Levy

Mr. Stephen Lewinstein

Ms. Ellen Liman

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Litle IV

Mr. and Mrs. H. Eugene Lockhart

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Edgar Long Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Jeffry Louis, III

Mrs. Walter R. Lovejoy

Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Lubin

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Lunder

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Luter III

Mr. and Mrs. James Edward Lyons

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. MacCowatt

Mr. and Mrs. Edward E. Madden

Mr. and Mrs. Lance D. Mahaney

Mrs. David Mahoney

Mr. and Mrs. Grant E. Mashek

Mr. and Mrs. George G. Matthews

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Mavec

Mrs. Talbott Maxey

Mr. Thomas O. McCarthy

Mr. and Mrs. Peter McCausland

Mr. and Mrs. John B. McCoy

Mrs. Mary O. McDonnell

DONORS, continued

Annual giving donations received from July 1 through October 18, 2024

Mrs. William J. McDonough

Mr. and Mrs. Theodore McGraw, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Martin G. McGuinn

Mr. and Mrs. Terence McGuirk

Mr. Henry P. McIntosh IV

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas McWilliams

Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Menschel

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Merriman

Mrs. Aimee M. Merszei

Mr. and Mrs. Donald K. Miller

Mr. and Mrs. D. Quinn Mills

Honorable Mary V. Mochary

Mrs. George B. Moore

Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Moore

Mrs. Dudley L. Moore Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Morrissey

Mrs. Mary M. Morse

Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. Mortimer Jr.

Alicia and Timothy Mullen

Ms. Pamelee Murphy

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Neff

Ms. Sandra Triem Norcross

Mr. and Mrs. Christoph Nostitz

Mrs. John A. Nyheim

Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Oakley, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Chips C. Page

Mrs. Anka Kriser Palitz

Mr. and Mrs. Ellis J. Parker

Mr. and Mrs. Gary W. Parr

Mrs. Lee Wallace Peck and Mr. John A. Capstick

Dr. Virginia Pellicci

Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Phelps

Mrs. Sallie B. Phillips

Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. Picotte

Mr. and Mrs. Seth Low Pierrepont

Mrs. William Pitt

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Plumeri

Mrs. Natalie Pray, MBE

Mrs. Diana Ronan Quasha

Mr. Thomas C. Quick

Mr. and Mrs. Marko Remec

Mrs. Martin Revson

Mr. William D. Robbins

Mr. and Mrs. Clayton J. Rohrbach III

Mrs. Walter M. Ross

Ms. Kara Ross

Ms. Lyn M. Ross

Honorable and Mrs. Wilbur L. Ross

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rothschild

Mrs. John Ruan III

Ms. Madeleine K. Rudin

Mr. and Mrs. David Rudnick

Honorable Philip E. Ruppe

Ms. April Russell and Mr. Hampton Lynch, Jr.

Mrs. Alexandra Hersey Hamm Ryan

Mrs. Adele K. Schaeffer

Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Schecter

Ms. Vera Alfieri Serrano

Mr. Mark L. Shapiro and Mrs. Judy C. Lewent

Mrs. Jean S. Sharf

Mr. and Mrs. Morton H. Simkins

Mr. and Mrs. Steven J. Simmons

Mr. and Mrs. Beryl D. Simonson

Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. Slattery Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Matthew K. Smith

Mrs. Suzette de Marigny Smith

Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Smithgall III

Ambassador and Mrs. Clifford M. Sobel

Mr. and Mrs. Timothy S. Sotos

Ambassador and Mrs. Craig R. Stapleton

Ms. Susan S. Stautberg

Mrs. Marlene Strauss

Mr. and Mrs. John M. Sullivan Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Swan

Mr. and Mrs. Steven Tananbaum

Ambassador and Mrs. Nicholas F. Taubman

Mrs. Susan Taylor

Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Tebbe

Mr. and Mrs. Dom Telesco

Mrs. Sandra N. Thompson

Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Thornburgh

Mr. and Mrs. John L. Townsend III

Mrs. Meredith A. Townsend and Mr. William Blind

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Trethewey

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph V. Tripodi

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Tucker

Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Turner

Mr. Stephen Uihlein and Mrs. Alessandra Branca-Uihlein

Mrs. Nancy Best Van Deuren

Mr. and Mrs. Cornelis J. Van Hoek

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher S. Vecellio

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen R. Weiner

Mr. and Mrs. William C. Weldon

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Weller

Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Werner

Mr. and Mrs. William B. Wiggins Jr.

Mrs. Cynthia and Mr. William Wilby

Mrs. Kelly M. Williams and Mr. Andrew Forsyth

Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin J. Winter

Mr. Michel Witmer

Mr. and Mrs. Robert K. Wood

Mrs. Jane B. Woodman

Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Wright

Mrs. Carol N. Wyett

Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Zack

GENEROUS SUPPORTERS

Gifts from non-members to The Four Arts of $10,000 or more per year

Mr. Barron N. Hilton

The Hulitar Foundation

FOUR ARTS CIRCLE

Gifts from members and non-members to The Four Arts of $5,000 to $9,999 per year

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Ainslie

Mrs. Emilia Menocal Alexandre and Mr. DeWitt L. Alexandre, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Allen

Mr. Thomas Andruskevich and Mrs. Suzanne McMillan

Mrs. Jameson A. Baxter

Annual giving donations are defined as tax-deductible gifts made in addition to membership dues. Donations are recognized during the fiscal year in which they are received, from July 1 through June 30. Gifts to capital campaigns or special projects are much appreciated and recognized separately.

Mrs. Henry Darlington Jr.

Mrs. Martha DeBrule

Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Eder

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Eisenberg

Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Evans

William and Anne Farrell

Mrs. Anne Fisher

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Flinn Jr.

Mrs. Lynn A. Foster

Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Gantcher

Ms. Carole Gigliotti

Mr. John Herrick Gooch

Mrs. Henry F. Harris

Mrs. Clair A. Heise

Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hewitt

Mrs. Charles H. Jones Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Kelly

Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan S. Linen

Mr. and Mrs. Carmine A. Martignetti

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Mintmire

Mr. and Mrs. David Newton

Mrs. Lorraine Odasso

Ms. Cynthia Polsky and Mr. Leon Polsky

Mr. Steven Rappaport and Ms. Judith A. Garson

Mr. and Mrs. P. Anthony Ridder

Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Riley

Mrs. John J. Rinker

Alix and Scott Sandell

Mr. and Mrs. David L. Sliney

Mrs. Beverly Sommer

Mr. and Mrs. Alberto Vitale

Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Wareham

Mr. John Howard Wert

Mr. and Mrs. R. Richard Williams

GUARDIAN

Gifts from members and non-members to The Four Arts of $2,500 to $4,999 per year

Mrs. Steven Ames

Ms. Penny Bank

Mr. and Mrs. George W. Beverly Jr.

Mrs. Louise L. Braver

Mr. Stephen L. Brown and Mrs. Jamie Stern

Mrs.Karen S. Butler

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Carney III

Mr. Sumeet Chabria and Mrs. Donna Chabria

Mrs. Gail Cooke

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Dattels

Mr. and Mrs. William J. Devers Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Dwares

Mrs. Mary Ann Ehrlich

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Epstein

Mrs. Eric C. Fast

Mr. and Mrs. Gregory W. Fisher

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Garvy

Mr. and Mrs. David Genser

Beth and Marc Goldberg

Mrs. Mary Harrington

Mrs. David Herwitz

Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Horvitz

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Marion Johnson III

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Katz

Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Krey

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Thomas Lake

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Lane

Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Lentz

Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Lucas II

Mr. and Mrs. Roman Martinez IV

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Masterman

Mr. and Mrs. Alan Menkes

Ms. Judith Miller

Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Morgan

Mr. and Mrs. William I. Morton

Mr. and Mrs. Clarence V. Nalley III

Mrs. Kathrine Palmer

Dr. Giselle Anna Parry

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Patton

Dr. and Mrs. G. Wesley Price

Mr. and Mrs. Harry T. Rein

Mr. and Mrs. M. Weldon Rogers IV

Mrs. Bonnie Johnson Sacerdote

Mis. Kay T. Segerdahl

Mrs. Jerome Serchuck

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bland Smith

Mrs. E. Massie Valentine

Dr. Mary Frances Smoak Walde and Mr. William L. Walde

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher M. Wiedenmayer

Mr. Matthew Wyatt

PATRON

Gifts from members and non-members to The Four Arts of $1,000 to $2,499 per year

Mr. and Mrs. Leo Arnaboldi III

Mr. and Mrs. Harris J. Ashton

Mrs. Ellen B. Asplundh

Mr. and Mrs. James B. Bertles

Mr. David Brodsky and Ms. Emmelle Segal

Mr. and Mrs. George R. Bunn Jr.

Mrs. Edwin M. Burke

Mr. and Mrs. Rob P. Bushman III

Mr. and Mrs. James Morgan Clifford

Mrs. Eileen Cornacchia and Dr. John Grabow

Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Crowley

Mrs. John Cutting II

Mrs. Barbara Daniels

Mr. and Mrs. Loic de Kertanguy

Mr. and Mrs. David Duffy

Ms. Leslie A. Fitzgerald Fallon

Mr. Joshua Fleming

Mr. and Mrs. James T. Flynn

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Frelinghuysen

Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Kip Geddes

Mr. Michael Gibbons

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Gilbane Jr.

Mrs. Edward T. Goodman

Mrs. Robert G. Gordon

Mrs. Rachel K. Grody

Mr. and Mrs. Neil Hamilton

Mr. and Mrs. Franklin L. Haney

Mr. and Mrs. G.F. Robert Hanke

Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Hardwick

Mr. and Mrs. Robert K. Hatcher

Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Howell

Mrs. Allison Ridder Johnstone

Mr. and Mrs. Victor K. Kiam III

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Kirchhoff

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Larmoyeux

Mrs. Elaine Learson-Schoch

Mr. and Mrs. Alan Remy Leist Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Leonard

Mrs. Josephine P. Louis

Mr. and Mrs. Robb R. Maass

Mrs. Zelda Mason

Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. McDonough

Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. McGill III

Mr. and Mrs. Peter D. McLeod

Mr. and Mrs. Marc Alain Meadows

Mr. and Mrs. Craig Millard

Mrs. Marjorie L. Miller

Mr. and Mrs. George B. Moore

Mr. and Mrs. John H. Morris Jr.

Ms. Madeleine Morrison and Mr. Charles Bellock

Mr. and Mrs. John F. Niblack

Mr. David G. Ober

Mrs. Frank A. Olson

Mrs. Evelyn O’Neil

Mr. and Mrs. Laurie Charles R. Oppenheim

Mr. John F. Otto Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. Nicholas Papanicolaou

Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Petry

Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Pierce Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Harvey L. Poppel

Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Reveley

Mrs. Ene Riisna

Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Rooney

Mr. C. Tanner Rose Jr.

DONORS,

Annual giving donations received from July 1 through October 18, 2024

Mrs. Sarane H. Ross

Mr. Thomas Schoch

Mr. Shouky A. Shaheen

Mr. Alan Shayne and Mr. Norman Sunshine

Mrs. J.V. Shields Jr.

Mrs. Suzanne W. Silver

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sloane

Mrs. John J. Slocum

Ms. Elizabeth Sorrel

Ms. Heidi L. Steiger

Mr. and Mrs. Steven Stern

Dr. and Mrs. John Strasswimmer

Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Sullivan

Mr. and Mrs. William E. Sullivan

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Theodoracopulos

Mr. and Mrs. John Thorndike

Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Tomenson Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley S. Trotman Jr.

Ms. Susan Van Pelt

Mr. J. David Veselsky and Mr. Kenneth B. Elias

Mrs. Kenneth Walker

Ms. Kendall Wheeler

Mr. and Mrs. Austin Willis

Mr. and Mrs. Watson Wright

Mrs. Ilsabe W. Wyman

Mr. and Mrs. Donald S. Young

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Zacharias

DONOR

Gifts from members and non-members to The Four Arts of $100 to $999 per year

Mrs. John H. Alban Jr.

Mr. David Albenda

Mrs. R. Jack Alexander Jr.

Mrs. Gale Alger

Mr. and Mrs. Christian Angle

Dr. and Mrs. Carter S. Bagley

Ms. Catherine Balbach

Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Barrett

Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Belmont

Mr. and Mrs. Harry James

Benson CBE

Ms. Mary Beth Bloomberg

Mr. Thomas Patrick Boland

Mr. and Mrs. John G. Buchanan III

Mr. Douglas Buck and Mrs. Bobbie Lindsay

Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Callahan

Mrs. Kathleen Fletcher Chace

Mr. Garry M. Collins

Mrs. Frank S. Coniglio

Mr. and Mrs. David S. Daniel

Mrs. Patricia Donnelley and Mr. Douglas Stockham

Mrs. John C. Duggan

Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Dunst

Ms. Harriett Eckstein

Ms. Geri Emmett and Mr. Michael Magnani

Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Evans III

Ms. Susan M. Faries

Mr. Patrick Foy

Mrs. James M. Gabler

Mr. and Mrs. Robert N. Garrison

Mrs. Sally M. Gibson

Mrs. Martha Glasser

Mr. and Mrs. John B. Goodwin Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. John C. Gordon

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Francis Gormley

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Griffen

Ms. Denis K. Hanrahan

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Phipps Hoffstot III

Annual giving donations are defined as tax-deductible gifts made in addition to membership dues. Donations are recognized during the fiscal year in which they are received, from July 1 through June 30. Gifts to capital campaigns or special projects are much appreciated and recognized separately.

Mrs. Lynn Homes

Mr. and Mrs. Albert D. Hutzler III

Mrs. Lawrence Ingber

Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Jablin

Mrs. Katharine M Jones

Mrs. Renata Jones

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Emerson Kaufmann

Mr. and Mrs. John P. Keller

Mrs. Benigna Kirsten

Mrs. Dolores Kohl

Mr. and Mrs. Mark N. Kozak

Mr. and Mrs. Milton Lachman

Mr. Charles F. Lanigan

Mrs. Patricia Lebow

Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Leiden

Mrs. L. Marguerite Lenfest

Mr. and Mrs. Per Arne Lorentzen

Mr. David Blackwell Lowe

Mr. and Mrs. Clark Fownes

MacKenzie

Mr. and Mrs. Rocco A. Marcello

Mr. and Mrs. A. Lewis Markfield

Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Scott Marsh III

Mrs. Mas G. Massoumi

Mrs. Helaine Hobby McKenney

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen McPherson

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mellon

Mrs. Katherine Mezzacappa

Mr. and Mrs. David Hubbard Morrish

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Moynihan

Mrs. Herbert J. Myers

Mr. and Mrs. Warwick Fay Neville

Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. O’Hara

Mrs. Deborah Landon O’Kain

Daniel and Carole A. Pichney

Mrs. Leonard S. Platt

Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Prawer

Mrs. Robin H. Prince

Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Pucillo

Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Reminger

Mr. David R. Rinehart

Mrs. Irene Ritzenthaler-Casey

Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Robbins

Mrs. Judith Robinson

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Rodman

Mr. and Mrs. Randall Brewster Roe

Mr. and Mrs. Leonard G. Rogers

Mrs. Laura Rose

Mrs. Raphael J. Rothstein

Mrs. Carole Ruhlman and Mr. Michael Ruhlman

Mrs. Stanley Rumbough Jr.

Mrs. June Salny

Mr. and Mrs. Victor J. Scaravilli

Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Schapiro

Mr. and Mrs. K. Christian Schoeller

Mr. and Mrs. George H. Shattuck Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. Daniel O. Sokoloff

Mrs. James B. Sommers

Mr. Campbell Steward

Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Stiller

Mrs. Marion H. Straton

Mr. and Mrs. William Strawbridge

Mrs. Christine S. P. Strawbridge

Mrs. Edna Strnad

Mrs. Ann Lesesne Sutherland and Mr. Malcom Sutherland

Mr. and Mrs. Hirotake Suzuki

Mr. and Mrs. Joe B. Thompson

Mr. and Mrs. Schuyler Tilney

Mr. and Mrs. Albert J. Togut

Mrs. and Mr. Pascal Franchot Tone

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Van der Wolk

Mrs. Ralph B. Vogel

Mrs. Carol Weltz

Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Whitman III

Mrs. Thomas Miller Wilkinson

Mr. Frederick Wright Jr.

Mrs. Shelby Wyckoff

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald F. Young

Peter and Patricia Yunghanns

IN MEMORY OF

Amb. W.L. Lyons Brown, given by Mr. and Mrs. Alexander P. Federbush

Edith Dixon, given by Ms. Kimberly V. Strauss

Joseph Flanagan, given by Harriet Resnick

Sally Kessler, given by Ms. Linda R. Olsson

Dudley Moore, given by Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Graber

Nell W. Otto, given by Mr. John F. Otto Jr.

IN HONOR OF

Amb. Bonnie McElveen-Hunter, given by Mr. and Mrs. John H. Livens

Nancy Talsky, given by Mr. Michael Kasdan

Walter C. Teagle III, given by Mrs. Walter C. Teagle III

THANK YOU

The Four Arts wishes to thank the following partners for their generous support:

CORPORATE PARTNERS

GENERAL SUPPORT

Chilton Trust

KING FLING

The Bob Merrill Band

The Breakers Palm Beach

Chik Monk

Civil Society Brewing Company

Loïc Bakery

Nosh Catering

Ovando

TooJay’s

Winebow Imports

Wolffer Estate Vineyard

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

The Garden Club of Palm Beach

Tourist Development Council: Cultural Council for Palm Beach County

The Town of Palm Beach

MEDIA PARTNERS

Capehart Photography

South Florida PBS TV

WLRN 101.9 FM

WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA

PERMIT NO. 1817 fourarts.org

100 Four Arts Plaza • Palm Beach, FL 33480

Adventure, Architecture, and Palm Beach Fun for the whole family • No charge • Reservations required, call (561) 655-2776

Addison Mizner Visionary Architect

with Robert L. Forbes

Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 10:30 a.m.

Presented in partnership with The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach

Addison Mizner created a style of architecture now known as Mediterranean Revival that swept Palm Beach, Florida in the 1920s. His story from adventurous youth to famous architect is filled with many twists and turns, and dreams. Join us as Robert Forbes shares excerpts from Addison Mizner Visionary Architect in the Children’s Library. This family program will include a book reading, Mizner-inspired arts & crafts, a blueprint planning station, and refreshments. A special thank you to The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach for gifting a copy of this book to each family in attendance.

COVER PHOTO: Georgia O’Keeffe (American, 1887-1986), Antelope Head with Pedernal, 1953, Oil on canvas, 20¼ x 24¼ in. Gift of the Thomas Gilcrease Museum Association, John Steele Zink Foundation, and Peter M. Walter, Courtesy Gilcrease Museum and American Federation of Arts.