Thank you to everyone for your interest in out October 2007 tour of the Philip Johnson Glass House. We are now officially sold out with a waiting list of 12+. We called to book a spring tour and weren’t able to secure one until July 2008! If anyone likes to plan a year in advance, please send us an email and we’ll add your name to the list.
It is now official. We have a 22-person motorcoach reserved to take us down to New Canaan to the Philip Johnson Glass House for our spectacular tour on October 3. In the next couple of weeks you should receive a mailing about the trip, including a registration form. We have already had several people reserve the limited twenty seats on the guided tour, so register early. Spaces are bound to go quickly.
The cost for the trip will be $55. That’s $25 for the guided tour of the Glass House, and $30 for the motorcoach.
We will leave West Hartford at approximately 9:30am, and arrive in New Canaan for 11am. Our first tour will begin at 12:30pm, leaving plenty of time to have lunch in beautiful downtown New Canaan beforehand. Then the first group of ten will leave for their tour, while the second group gets to enjoy the shops and streets of this historic town. The second tour will begin at 1:30pm and end at 3pm. We will all have a brief break to stretch our legs and get one last coffee before we board the motorcoach again and head back to West Hartford. We should arrive home by 5pm.
We’re all very excited about this exclusive opportunity to tour the Philip Johnson Glass House. If you have any questions, or would like to reserve your space on the trip by phone, please don’t hesitate to call (860) 768-4090.
Just in! We have secured two 10-person tours of the Philip Johnson Glass House in New Canaan, CT for Wednesday, October 3, 2007. In case you haven’t heard, the amazing Philip Jonson Glass House will open to the public for guided tours this summer and early fall only. When I spoke to the booking agent this morning, 80% of the tours had already been taken and October was our earliest possibility. Don’t miss out on this rare treat!
We will be booking a small luxury motorcoach to take us down to New Canaan for what I’m sure will be a glorious fall day. The guided walking tours are for ten at a time and take approximately an hour and a half each. While one set of us takes off for the 1:00pm tour, the others can stroll around the lovely town of New Canaan and take in the shops and restaurants. While the 2:00pm tour takes off, the first group can relax and enjoy the town. It should be a perfect day.
If you would like to read more about the Glass House, please visit their website at www.philipjohnsonglasshouse.org and read the wonderful article in this past Sunday’s New York Times.
More information and registration forms well be mailed out in the coming weeks so mark your calendars and join us for this exclusive peek at Philip Johnson’s amazing architecture.
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Due to a scheduling squeeze, thanks to the very successful Hartford Art School gala, the graduating illustraton students lost out on their gallery space for their senior show up in the art school. Since we had no shows in the gallery, we offered our space for an unprecedented departmental show in the Joseloff. It’s not generally the sort of show we would have in the Joseloff, a student departmental show, that is, so the illustration students are going all out and taking full advantage of the space.
REEL ILLUSTRATION: A Red Carpet Premiere
opens this Saturday, May 5th with a movie-themed reception in the gallery from 5:30-8:30pm.
Today the installation begins and the job of organizing twenty-seven (that’s right twenty-seven) graduating seniors and their respective work looks like quite a task. Good luck to all of them. Here’s a peek at how it looks so far.
Have you ever wanted to own a Picasso or a Jim Dine print? How about a Robert Indiana “LOVE” print or a Steichen photograph? Well now is the time, come to the gallery and seize your opportunity.
Currently on view is the Hartford Art School Benefit Art Auction Preview Exhibition. On the night of April 21, 2007, the Art School will host its gala fundraising event featuring an elegant dinner, entertainment, a silent auction and an exciting live auction. All proceeds from the event and the auction will benefit the new Renee Samuels Center at the Hartford Art School.
There will soon be a catalog available for download from the gallery website, but in the meantime, if you would like to receive a catalog, please email us and we will forward you a PDF.
Many items are available for silent auction and we are accepting bids now until the close of bidding on Saturday April 21. Please stop by the gallery to register for a bidder number and place your bids.
We will also be accepting absentee bids for the live auction, if you are interested in bidding on a live auction item and will not be attending the gala, you can place an absentee bid by filling out the proxy bidding section of the registration form. The registration form is available at the gallery, or it can be faxed or emailed directly to you. Please email or call if you are interested in receiving a registration form.
Below is a sampling of the items available for auction. Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
Lot 22 - Pablo Picasso, Untitled, 1948. Framed lithograph. Signed and numbered by the artist. 29.5 x 22 inches. LIVE auction. Estimate range $6,000-8,000.
Lot 16 - Robert Indiana, LOVE, 1982. Framed silkscreen. Signed, dated, numbered and titled by the artist in pencil. 26.75 x 26.75 inches. LIVE auction. Estimate range $2,000-3,000.
Lot 33 - Edward Steichen, Brancusi, Voulangis, France, 1922. Framed photograph. Printed posthumously by George Tice, 1984-1986. 20 x 16 inches. SILENT auction. Estimate range $200-400.
Lot 28 - Alan Shields, Sushi Bar, 1982. Framed lithograph, silkscreen and block print on handmade paper with cut-outs and hand-stitching. 18 x 18 inches. SILENT auction. Estimate range $$700-1,000.
Lot 9 - Jim Dine, Hearts and Hammers, 1982. Framed etching with hand-coloring. 48 x 65.5 inches. LIVE auction. Estimate range $6,000-8,000.
Photography by David Stansbury Photography
Last night’s opening of the Alexander A. Goldfarb 19th Annual Student Exhibition and Awards Presentation was an exciting event.
Our two winners received checks in the amount of $1,000, presented by the dean of the Hartford Art School, Power Boothe. The winners were honored to be chosen and to have their work purchased for the Hartford Art School Alexander A. Goldfarb collection.
Nick Kontos, a senior painting major, won for his untitled oil, acrylic and enamel painting.
Emily Francois, a senior photography major won for her piece titled Strip Mall Commemorative Plates consisting of sixteen ceramic collectible plates with overglaze decals depicting the shops in a strip mall.
Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate the (delayed) opening and witness the exciting awards presentation.
The exhibition will be on display through Thrusday March 22, 2007 - don’t miss it!
Thanks to winter storm Agatha, the opening reception of the Alexander A. Goldfarb Nineteenth Annual Student Exhibition and Awards Presentation has been rescheduled.
Our new opening date will be Tuesday February 27, from 4:30-6:30pm. In the meantime, the gallery is open our normal hours, so please come in and guess which pieces you think will be awarded the purchase prizes at our opening reception.
Please contact the gallery office if you have any questions or email by clicking this link.
The artists came to the gallery in droves this past weekend to drop off their work to be juried for the Goldfarb student show. We had 106 students with a combined 178 pieces of art enter, and the following 65 students had their work accepted for the show:
Among the accepted entries, we have 11 illustration majors, 11 Visual Communication Design majors, 11 painting majors, 10 ceramics majors, 7 photography majors, 6 undecided majors, 5 printmaking majors, 1 sculpture major, 1 cinema major and 1 business major.
Mark you calendars for the opening reception, next Wednesday, February 14th from 4:30-6:30pm. The two thousand-dollar purchase prizes will be awarded that night at around 5pm.
(Photography by David Stansbury Photography)
