The
New-York Historical Society hosted a celebratory dinner on Wednesday,
March 4, 2009, to mark Audubon's Aviary: Some Things Old,
Some Things Borrowed, but Most Things New, the final exhibition
in a five-part annual series mounted by the Society.
The exhibition, curated by Dr. Roberta J.M. Olson, will be on view
from February 13 through April 5, 2009, after which the watercolors
will return to N-YHS's storage. Due to their sensitivity to
light, each of the 40 original Audubon watercolors in the exhibition
can be exhibited for only a brief period every 10 years. The Society's
permanent Audubon collection is the largest single repository of
Audubon objects (Auduboniana) in the world.
Guests included: Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Acevedo, Ms. Betsy
Bing, Mr. and Mrs. Ravenel B. Curry III, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Debs,
Dr. Layla S. Diba, Mr. Charles E. Dorkey III, Edmund C. Duffy, Esq.,
Mrs. Walter G. Dunnington, Mr. Stephen Edidin, Professor Colin and
Betsy Eisler, Mr. and Mrs. Stuart P. Feld, Mrs. Linda Ferber, Ms. Karen
Fleiss and David Fleiss, M.D., Ms. Debra J. Force, Mr. and Mrs. Roger
Hertog, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Huber, Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth T. Jackson,
Mr. Robert Kashey, Mr. Eugene Keilin and Ms. Joanne Witty, Mrs. Mary
C. Kilbourn, Mr. and Mrs. John Klingenstein, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Lewy,
Mr. and Mrs. Carl B. Menges, Dr. Louise Mirrer and Dr. David Halle,
and Ms. Wendy Moonan and Mr. Duncan Darrow, Anne Moore, M.D. and Mr.
Arnold Lisio, Ms. Nancy Newcomb and Mr. John Hargraves, Ms. Roberta
Olson, Mr. and Mrs. Joel Oppenheimer, Ms. Kimberly Orcutt, Mr. and
Mrs. Roger B. Oresman, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Peck, Ms. Janis Conner and
Mr. Joel Rosenkranz, Mr. and Mrs. William Saltzman, Mr. and Mrs. R.
Scott Schafler, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Schlosser, Ms. Susan Menconi and
Mr. Andrew Schoelkopf, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Selz, The Honorable and
Mrs. Leon J. Weil, Mrs. Sue Ann Weinberg, Mr. and Mrs. Byron R. Wien,
Mr. and Mrs. Barrie Wigmore.
