About This Event
Please reserve your book and program seat now.
Almost a year in the making, this first edition of the illustrated Lanier Library book of art, artifacts, and curios adds color photographs of the entire collection, expands content, and revises text of two earlier editions; the most recent from 2003. Research for that earlier edition is credited to Vonda Krahn, Nowell Guffey, and Michael McCue; editing and commentary by Michael McCue; design by Caroline DuBose Bartol. For this new color edition, Executive Director, Jenny Purtill, and the Board Marketing Communications Chair, Vincent Verrecchio, relied on that earlier work as an invaluable starting point. Verrecchio, backed with more than a 50-year creative career in advertising, volunteered as copywriter, photographer, and designer.
“We art not art historians or experts,” says Jenny. “We are caretakers and art lovers who welcome information and clarification. I know of instances of missing names of artists and donors, such as the bronze “Shepherd.” There are provenances based only on donor memory and suppositions made through research and logic. Future editions will add what we learn.
“This will be be a table top book for members and a tour guide where browsers can read, for example, that ‘Antinous’ in the Main Room is a bronze casting made in late 19th century by Boschetti, Roma. The sculptor of the second century stone original is unknown, but this is a famous representation of the Greek athlete and hunter favored by the Roman emperor Hadrian.”
The first printing is a limited edition so reserve your copy now. One book is free with each individual membership or family membership. Additional copies for members and non-members will be available for $20 each on a first come, first serve basis.
The first availability will be at the Launch Program, Wednesday January 21, 6 PM. Hosts Jenny Purtill and Tryon Art Collectors Gary Corn and James Blanton will relate the pages of the book to the Library rooms and highlight pieces with anecdotes and details.
About This Event
Please reserve your book and program seat now.
Almost a year in the making, this first edition of the illustrated Lanier Library book of art, artifacts, and curios adds color photographs of the entire collection, expands content, and revises text of two earlier editions; the most recent from 2003. Research for that earlier edition is credited to Vonda Krahn, Nowell Guffey, and Michael McCue; editing and commentary by Michael McCue; design by Caroline DuBose Bartol. For this new color edition, Executive Director, Jenny Purtill, and the Board Marketing Communications Chair, Vincent Verrecchio, relied on that earlier work as an invaluable starting point. Verrecchio, backed with more than a 50-year creative career in advertising, volunteered as copywriter, photographer, and designer.
“We art not art historians or experts,” says Jenny. “We are caretakers and art lovers who welcome information and clarification. I know of instances of missing names of artists and donors, such as the bronze “Shepherd.” There are provenances based only on donor memory and suppositions made through research and logic. Future editions will add what we learn.
“This will be be a table top book for members and a tour guide where browsers can read, for example, that ‘Antinous’ in the Main Room is a bronze casting made in late 19th century by Boschetti, Roma. The sculptor of the second century stone original is unknown, but this is a famous representation of the Greek athlete and hunter favored by the Roman emperor Hadrian.”
The first printing is a limited edition so reserve your copy now. One book is free with each individual membership or family membership. Additional copies for members and non-members will be available for $20 each on a first come, first serve basis.
The first availability will be at the Launch Program, Wednesday January 21, 6 PM. Hosts Jenny Purtill and Tryon Art Collectors Gary Corn and James Blanton will relate the pages of the book to the Library rooms and highlight pieces with anecdotes and details.