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SOUTHAMPTON, NY —
The Parrish Art Museum’s Midsummer Party, a
highlight of the Hamptons summer season, will take place
Saturday, July 9. This year’s gala will honor the Parrish’s
Founding Partners, who have for more than a decade donated
generously for endowments for curatorial and education
programs and for planning and construction of the new Herzog
& de Meuron-designed museum in Water Mill. This years
Midsummer Party Co-Chairs are Museum Trustees Deborah
Bancroft, Etta Froio, Dorothy Lichtenstein, Adam Sender, and
David Wassong.
Always a sell-out, the Midsummer
Party begins with cocktails at 6:30 pm and dinner at 8 pm in
an air conditioned tent in the Museum’s historic arboretum.
The fun continues with dessert, drinks, and dancing from 10
pm to 1 am. The party draws approximately 500 dinner guests
and 500 “After Ten” attendees—primarily affluent Hamptons
second-homeowners and individuals with sophisticated tastes
and interest in the visual arts.
Individual dinner tickets are $1000
for Patrons, $2500 for Benefactors. Tables are priced from
$10,000 to $50,000. After Ten tickets cost $125 ($150 after
June 26). For those who purchase tables, Benefactor tickets,
or sponsorships, Adam Sender and his wife Lenore will host
an exclusive cocktail reception at their home in Sag Harbor.
More information and tickets are
available from the Special Events Office, 631-283-2118, ext.
42, or from the museum’s web site,
www.parrishart.org .
A list of founding partners follows:
Founding Partners
Fiona and Stanley Druckenmiller
Norman and Liliane Peck and The Peter Jay
Sharp Foundation
Carroll Petrie Foundation
The Harriet and Esteban Vicente Foundation
Robert Lehman Foundation, Inc.
Dorothy Lichtenstein
Mildred C. Brinn
Century Arts Foundation
Lewis B. & Dorothy Cullman Foundation
Ronald and Jo Carole Lauder
Lynne and Richard Pasculano
Dan K. Wassong and David K. Wassong
Susan Weber
William T. Hillman
Werner and Maren Otto
Agnes Gund - In honor of Dorothy Lichtenstein
Gabrielle and Louis Bacon
Ira and Gale Drukier
Stacey and Eric Mindich
Charlotte Moss and Barry Friedberg
Meryl and Charles Witmer
The Museum's programs are made possible, in part, with
public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts,
celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative
communities in New York State's 62 counties, and the
property taxpayers from the Southampton School District and
the Tuckahoe Common School District.
About the Parrish Art Museum
The Parrish Art Museum is an American art museum located in
Southampton, New York. Founded in 1897, the museum
celebrates the artistic legacy of Long Island’s East End,
one of America’s most vital creative centers.
Since the mid 1950s the Museum has grown from a small
village art gallery into an important art museum with a
collection of more than 2,600
works of art from the nineteenth century to the present. It
includes such contemporary painters and sculptors as John
Chamberlain, Chuck Close, Eric Fischl, April Gornik,
Elizabeth Peyton, as well as such masters as Dan Flavin, Roy
Lichtenstein, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and Willem de
Kooning. The Parrish houses among of the world’s most
important collections of works by the preeminent American
Impressionist William Merritt Chase and by the
groundbreaking post-war American realist painter Fairfield
Porter. A vital cultural resource serving a diverse
audience, the Parrish organizes and presents changing
exhibitions and offers a dynamic schedule of creative and
engaging public programs including lectures, films,
performances, concerts, and studio classes for all ages. On
July 19, 2010, the Parrish broke ground on a new building
designed by internationally acclaimed architects Herzog & de
Meuron. The 34,500-square-foot facility will triple the
Museum’s current exhibition space and allow for the
simultaneous presentation of loan exhibitions and
installations drawn from the permanent collection.
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