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Monday, Wednesday-Saturday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Tuesday: Four Arts members only, 1 to 5 p.m.

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Art Galleries, Gubelmann Auditorium 102 Four Arts Plaza (561) 655-7226

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.

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

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.

MARCH MADNESS! Join us in the Gubelmann Auditorium on Fridays in March for the following films.

Free popcorn will be available!

Leonie

Friday, March 7, 2025 at 2 and 5:30 p.m. • $10 • No charge for Four Arts members 2010 • PG-13 • 1 hour, 42 minutes • In English and Japanese with English subtitles A film about the life and relationships of the early 20th century American educator, editor, and journalist Leonie Gilmour, the mother of the acclaimed artist and architect Isamu Noguchi, whose sculpture Intetra is on The Four Arts campus near the Intracoastal Waterway.

This film replaces Suncoast, which was originally scheduled to screen at this time.

Thelma

Friday, March 14, 2025 at 4:30 p.m. $10 • No charge for Four Arts members • 2024 • Not rated 1 hour, 37 minutes • Q&A with JP Morgan’s Lleana Van der Linde & Anne Sternlict follows When 93-year-old Thelma Post (June Squibb) gets duped by a phone scammer, she sets out on a treacherous quest with a friend to reclaim what was taken from her. This heartwarming film features Richard Roundtree, Parker Posey, and Clark Gregg.

One Life

Friday, March 21, 2025 at 2 and 5:30 p.m. $10 • No charge for Four Arts members 2023 • PG • 1 hour, 49 minutes In English and German, Czech, and French with English subtitles The true story of Sir Nicholas Winton, a heroic young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued over 600 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. Fifty years later, Nicky lives haunted by the fate of those he wasn’t able to bring to safety until a TV show helps him come to terms with the guilt and grief.

Separate Lies

Friday, March 28, 2025 at 2 and 5:30 p.m. • $10 • No charge for Four Arts members 2005 • R • 1 hour, 25 minutes • In English and French with English subtitles James (Tom Wilkinson), a lawyer, and his younger wife, Anne (Emily Watson), split time between a London apartment and a country estate. The couple’s perfect marriage gets complicated when Anne begins sleeping with their neighbor, Bill (Rupert Everett). After Bill and Anne are linked to a hit-andrun death, James must choose whether to protect his wife or come forward to the police. Written and directed by Julian Fellowes.

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A RIGHT HONORABLE ACQUISITION Four Arts proud to display Salisbury’s famous Churchill portrait, Blood, Sweat & Tears

By Rebecca A. Dunham Four Arts Head of Fine Arts & Curator The painting Blood, Sweat & Tears depicts one of the most instantly recognizable subjects of the twentieth century: Sir Winston Churchill.

The Society of the Four Arts recently acquired this large oil on canvas painting, which is adorned with a magnificent, gilded wood frame, from a bequest by Mr. David Harrison Gilmour. Both the painting and its frame have been cleaned and conserved.

Executed by English artist Frank O. Salisbury (1874 – 1962), it is one of few portraits of the sitter made during Churchill’s Second World War premiership, rather than in his later days as a fêted elder statesman. And from 1970 until 1996, when Mr. Gilmour acquired the painting, it hung at 10 Downing Street.

In addition to painting large canvases of historical and ceremonial events and designing stained glass and book illustrations, Salisbury was an accomplished portraitist.

He first met Churchill in 1935 and asked the Prime Minister to sit for a portrait in 1942.

Due to the pressure of wartime leadership, a formal sitting was impossible. Therefore, the artist created this portrait from graphite studies he made while observing Churchill at work, specifically Churchill speaking before the House of Commons. Salisbury created two portraits after this experience. One portrays the Prime Minister informally, wearing his famous siren-suit at his desk, and hangs at Churchill’s

Frank O. Salisbury (English, 1874 – 1962), Blood, Sweat & Tears (The Right Honorable Winston Churchill), 1942–42, oil on canvas, 48 x 38.5 inches; 62.5 x 52.2 inches. Gift from David and Jillian Gilmour, 2024.2

With gratitude Four Arts member David Gilmour (November 5, 1931 – June 11, 2023) was a Canadian investor and entrepreneur.

He co-founded, in addition to many other businesses, Fiji Water, in 1996. He and his wife Jill had homes on Wakaya Island, Manhattan and Palm Beach. In addition to the portrait of Churchill, he and his wife donated a drawing entitled Infantryman, also by Frank O. Salisbury, and a 10-volume set of books of Salisbury’s correspondence.

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About the artist Francis Owen Salisbury (December 18, 1874 – August 31, 1962) was an English artist who painted portraits and historical events, particularly involving heads of state. He meticulously kept correspondence and details about each commission in a 10-volume set of books generously donated to the Gioconda and Joseph King Library by David and Jill Gilmour; the books reside in the Rare Book Room in specialized climate and humidity control. Salisbury painted 11 images of Churchill, more than any artist, although Churchill sat for the artist just six times. home (Chartwell, now owned by the National Trust). In the other work, this portrait, Churchill is depicted as “the great Parliamentarian,” in the conventional morning dress of a statesman and posed as if addressing the assembly with proud humility. Its title, Blood, Sweat & Tears, is taken directly from a speech Churchill gave before Parliament at the time of the Dunkirk evacuations in May of 1940: “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat…You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.”

Salisbury painted numerous state portraits, including George V in 1917, the Burial of the unknown Soldier in 1920, and he was the official artist of the Coronation of King George VI in 1937. His affinity for Blood, Sweat & Tears is affirmed by the fact that he chose to illustrate the frontispiece of his 1944 autobiography with this work. The Four Arts is honored to

accept this prestigious portrait into its permanent art collection, which is now the second work by Salisbury donated by Mr. Gilmour to enter the collection, the first being the black chalk drawing Infantryman (ca. 1915–1920). This compliments Mr. Gilmour’s previous donation to the King Library of 10 volumes of Salisbury’s correspondence with his many sitters, which is housed in the library’s Rare Book Room.

To commemorate this donation, and in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Churchill’s birth year (November 30, 1874), The Four Arts has organized for Allen Packwood, Director of the Churchill Archives Centre, to give a lecture about highlights from the Archives’ collection and for Lady Henrietta Spencer-Churchill to speak about Blenheim Palace, home to the Churchill family for over 300 years.

These exciting Campus on the Lake programs will provide enriching insights into the life of the statesman, soldier, and writer who was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Frank O. Salisbury (English, 1874 – 1962), Infantryman, ca. 1915 – 1920, charcoal on blue paper. Gift of Jill and David Gilmour O.F. 2022.2

Related programs

Lady Henrietta Spencer-Churchill

Allen Packwood

Thursday, March 6, 2025 at 3 p.m. $20 • No charge for Four Arts members Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium Book signing to follow

Ten True Tales from the Churchill Archives Monday, February 3, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. $20 • No charge for Four Arts members Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium In partnership with Cambridge in America

In this illustrated lecture, Allen Packwood, Director of the Churchill Archives Centre, will highlight critical documents from the Archive’s vast collection. He will reveal insights such as MI5 testing on Churchill’s wartime cigars and the contents of Margaret Thatcher’s handbag.

Packwood, a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and an Order of the British Empire Award recipient, has been the Director since 2002.

Blenheim — 300 Years of Life in a Palace

Blenheim Palace, home to the Churchill family for over 300 years, is Britain’s most visited and renowned stately home. Lady Henrietta Spencer-Churchill, eldest daughter of the 11th Duke of Marlborough, explores this baroque treasure in her photography book, Blenheim: 300 Years in a Palace. With stunning photography, the book illuminates Blenheim’s interiors and collections. Lady Henrietta is the founder of Spencer-Churchill Designs, a successful international producer of furniture, fabrics, and wallpapers.

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Rory McEwen (1932-1982), Tulip ‘Julia Farnese’ rose feather 1976, watercolour on vellum, 29¾ x 26¼ in., Private Collection. © Estate of Rory McEwen.

Rory McEwen (1932-1982), Rose ‘William Lobb’ 1976-78, watercolour on vellum, 31 x 26¾ in., Courtesy of Lord and Lady Hesketh. © Estate of Rory McEwen.

Enjoy botanical artist Rory McEwen’s vibrant, distinctive and modern style Special to The Four Arts The Society of the Four Arts is proud to display the exhibition Rory McEwen: A New Perspective on Nature from February 1 through March 30 in the Esther B. O’Keeffe Building. Presented in association with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (London) and Oak Spring Garden Foundation, an estate of the late Rachel Lambert Mellon (Virginia), the exhibition and its related programming will highlight the vibrant and varied career of the renowned Scottish artist, Rory McEwen.

“The Society of the Four Arts has been working since 2018 to bring Rory McEwen: A New Perspective on Nature to our galleries and is thrilled the time has now come to share this exhibition with its members and the public,” said

Rory McEwen A New Perspective on Nature On display Saturday, February 1, 2025 through Sunday, March 30, 2025 Sunday: 1 to 5 p.m. ■ Monday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Tuesday: Four Arts members only 1 to 5 p.m.

Wednesday-Saturday: 10 a.m to 5 p.m. $10 ■ No charge for Four Arts members Esther B. O’Keeffe Building 102 Four Arts Plaza, Palm Beach

Rory McEwen: A New Perspective on Nature is curated

by Ruth L. A. Stiff, Curator of International Exhibitions, RBG, Kew and presented in association with the Oak Spring Garden Foundation (Virginia) and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (London); tour management by Landau Traveling Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA. 6

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EXHIBITION LECTURE

Sir Peter Crane

President of Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Virginia

Wednesday, February 19, 2025 from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.

No charge Reservations are required Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium

Join Sir Peter Crane for a lively discussion about Rory McEwen’s distinctive contemporary style and how it drew upon long traditions of plant illustration to create new works that influenced the trajectory of botanical art on both sides of the Atlantic. He will situate McEwen among the great botanical artists of all time using works from the Oak Spring Garden Foundation in Virginia and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Sir Peter is President of Oak Spring Garden Foundation, an estate of Rachel Lambert Mellon that includes an exquisite garden as well as an exceptional library focused on plants, gardens, and landscape design. He is known internationally for his work on the diversity of plant life — its origin, fossil history, conservation, and use.

Rebecca A. Dunham, The Four Arts’ Head of Fine Arts & Curator. “McEwen’s beautiful botanical paintings will resonate with residents of the Town of Palm Beach and the greater community, which is famous for its gardens and green spaces. The exhibition also underscores The Four Arts’ commitment to educational programming about the relationship between art and plants as evidenced in the creation and preservation of the Philip Hulitar Sculpture Garden and the Demonstration Garden.”

Renowned artist and accomplished folk musician Rory McEwen was born in 1932. He left an indelible mark on both the music and art worlds and is acclaimed as the 20th century’s greatest botanical painter.

McEwen began his creative journey in the culturally rich environment of Scotland, and initially pursued a career in music. With his brother, Alexander, McEwen toured the United States in 1956, playing throughout the country, even appearing on the Ed Sullivan show years prior to the Beatles. In Britain, McEwen was a key figure in the British Folk movement and hosted his own national television show influencing a new generation of musicians.

However, McEwen’s gift for painting surpassed even these remarkable accomplishments in the music industry.

Rory McEwen: A New Perspective on Nature is focused on McEwen’s hyper-realistic watercolor paintings of plants.

Bringing a modern sensibility to botanical art, McEwen developed a distinctive style, painting on vellum and using large empty backgrounds on which his plant portraits seem to float. Executed in exact, minutely accurate detail, he recorded the imperfect and the unique, as well as the flawless.

McEwen once described his work as “I paint flowers as a way of getting as close as possible to what I perceive as the truth, my truth of the time in which I live.”

His work is shown alongside the works of master botanical artists from the 18th through 21st centuries. This exhibition includes works on loan from McEwen’s family as well as works drawn from numerous private collections, most of which have never been seen by the American public.

The Library at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation is lending works from its collections of the many well-known

Rory McEwen (1932-1982), Tulip ‘Helen Josephine’ 1975, watercolour on vellum, 29 x 25¾ in. © Estate of Rory McEwen. botanical artists who inspired McEwen such as Robert, Redouté, Ehret and Aubriet. The exhibition also includes the works of numerous contemporary artists who in turn continue McEwen’s artistic legacy, on loan from the extensive collections of Dr. Shirley Sherwood.

“The exhibition will not only introduce new audiences to Rory McEwen and his work, but also to the great botanical artists that came before him and provided inspiration for his art,” said Sir Peter Crane, president of Oak Spring Garden Foundation. Crane will lecture February 19 on the exhibition in the Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium.

McEwen’s connection to America became evident through his travels and collaborations. He engaged with the American art scene and shared his unique fusion of talents, leaving a lasting impression on both sides of the Atlantic. His ability to bridge the gap between visual arts and music showcases his innovative spirit and enduring impact on the art world.

The exhibition is curated by Ruth L. A. Stiff, Curator of International Exhibitions Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (London) and accompanied by a full-color catalogue produced by the Oak Spring Garden Foundation with a Preface by Professor Sir Peter Crane, Foreword by Ruth L. A. Stiff, and an essay by Dr. Martyn Rix. The Four Arts is the third stop of the exhibition tour which continues on to Chicago and London.

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Von Rydingsvard Finds Safety in Monumental Wooden Sculptures Polish-American Artist’s Malutka II latest acquisition for Philip Hulitar Sculpture Garden

By Philip Rylands Four Arts President and CEO Ursula von Rydingsvard’s Malutka II (2018) is a new and very distinguished addition to the Philip Hulitar Sculpture Garden. This has been donated by Chairman’s Forum members Tom and Diane Smith, to whom The Four Arts is exceedingly grateful. Thank you also to Heidi McWilliams who supervised the casting of the work and its shipping from New York to Palm Beach.

Von Rydingsvard (b. 1942 in Deensen, Germany) is a younger contemporary of other women artists of monumental sculptures such as Louise Bourgeois and Beverly Pepper. More abstract than Bourgeois and less abstract than Pepper, her work gives the impression of expressionist figuration. Typically she works with 4”x 4” cedar wood logs, whose ends articulate her surfaces like metopes on Greek temple entablatures. The logs are stacked and glued, and then worked with circular handheld saws, following traces marked with pencil on the smooth veinless surfaces of the soft cedar. The surfaces are then darkened with brushed-on graphite. They acquire the look of tree bark or of geological strata — sedimentary rock revealed in tectonic upheaval — even when cast in bronze.

As told in an hour-long documentary film, Ursula von Rydingsvard. Into Her Own (director Daniel Traub, 2019), her father was Polish and her mother Ukrainian.

They were peasant farmers who

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Ursula von Rydingsvard (German-American, b. 1932), Malutka II, 2018, bronze, Edition 4/5. Gift of Thomas and Diane Smith, 2025.1. Photo courtesy of the artist.

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were forced to work for the Nazis. For five years after World War II the family were ‘displaced persons’ (D.P.s) in camps in Germany. She vividly remembers how their impoverished and virtually homeless lives were spent in wood structures: “Everything was made of wood … and it was made in a very rough, rugged way,” she said; “it was the only thing between me and the outside world … there was a kind of safety the wood gave me.”

The family of nine emigrated to Plainville, Connecticut in 1950 where, at grade school, she already showed an aptitude for creativity. When many years later and by this time living in New York, she visited Poland, she became aware of an atavistic connection to wood: “Poland used to be a land of wood. … When you go to a village in Poland, there is a very neat, huge pile of [fire] wood” on the outside of each house. She noticed with sympathy how it was stacked “with care and grace.” She also realized that she had been making, as if by instinct, outsize utensil-like sculpture resembling Polish rustic wooden tools, without ever having seen them.

Malutka (pronounced Maljuka—the t is silent) is a proper female name in Polish, and a term of endearment, meaning ‘little one’ or ‘small child’. The massive torso of Malutka II has a bulky appendage on the right shoulder.

The limb seems to wield a weapon — a motif that occurs

on others of her works such as a massive cedar sculpture at Storm King Art Center titled Luba — also a word indicating affection. In the risky territory of interpretation, might these be a memory of her father, who would beat her and her siblings as children and of whom she was terrified — a memory still vivid to her today? The vertical format, widening as it rises as if sprouting, has been connected to the way hay bales in the fields of Polish farms are tied — another possible sub-conscious memory. Von Rydingsvard admits “The fact that I’m [part] Polish … is extremely important to me.”

Von Rydingsvard’s work is represented in the permanent collections of 40 museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York, as well as the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri, Storm King Art Center, New York, The Art Institute of Chicago, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach. Permanent commissioned sculptures are at the San Francisco International Airport, Stanford University, Princeton University, MIT, The Barclays Center and the Bloomberg Corporation, New York. She has been given solo exhibitions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Yorkshire Sculpture Park (UK), the 56th Venice Biennale, and in several museums in Poland.

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Photo by Paola Kudacki / Met Opera

Photo by Marty Sohl / Met Opera The Met: Live in HD schedule includes Les Contes d’Hoffmann, left, on April 19, and Grounded on February 22.

SINGING OPERA’S PRAISES Newcomers, aficionados welcome in classes, lectures, special live performance and screenings from the Met

By Regina Lee Four Arts Music Committee Live, recorded, in concert, classes and lectures! The Society of the Four Arts presents a Spring opera schedule to entice those who may be thinking of attending an opera for the first time, as well as to delight our returning opera buffs.

Ariane Csonka Comstock presents series of classes called “A Passion for Opera, Session II” to set the stage for all things opera at the Four Arts. One week Ariane is preparing us for the upcoming Met’s Saturday broadcast at the Four Arts, the next week she may delve into the history of an opera, or she may decide to dedicate the class to a particular singer or upcoming opera anniversary. Ariane draws from her multifaceted experiences as an operatic soprano, music critic, libretti translator and author to select video clips to create a most engaging class.

Regardless of the subject matter, classes are always interesting!

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This spring The Met: Live in HD opera screenings take us from late 18th century through the 19th and 20th centuries into the 21st century. The operas tell stories of tragedy, love, betrayal, drama, fantasy, mischief

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Opera at The Four Arts Sanda & Jeremiah Lambert Concert Series

February 16: Lindemann Artists in Concert, 3 p.m.

The Met Live in HD (Saturdays at 1 p.m.)

February 8: Madama Butterfly (encore) by Giacomo Puccini February 22: Grounded (encore) by Jeanine Tesori March 15: Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven April 19: Les Contes d’Hoffmann (encore) by Jacques Offenbach April 26: Le Nozze di Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Campus on the Lake

LECTURES February 26: “The Rhine, Wagner, and the Rhinemaidens” with Jim Holman, 11 a.m.

April 10: “The Opéra Garnier in Paris: The Architectural Equivalent of Lyrical Art” with Emmanuel Ducamp, Ph.D., 3 p.m.

WORKSHOP “A Passion for Opera” with Ariana Csonka Comstock Mondays from Noon to 1:30 p.m.

Session II: Feb. 24; March 3, 10, 17, 24, 31; April 7, 14

Photo by Rubén Sosa / Met Opera

and drone warfare. The sets and costumes range from traditional, contemporary, ethereal to modern. All operas are sung by world-class artists and performed on the world’s largest opera stage. An integral part of each screening is the narrator who reviews the synopsis, places the opera in context and interviews principal artists as they come off stage at intermission.

The Lindemann Artists in Concert return to The Four Arts for a live performance that provides a special evening for music lovers. The singers are members of the Met’s prestigious Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.

They compete with artists from all over the world to join this highly acclaimed program. Most interesting is that we are hearing the “young” voice of an artist. A notable observation, every opera in this spring’s Met: Live in HD schedule will have at least one title role being sung by a graduate of this program. You may just find you have a favorite or two and enjoy following their careers as their voices mature over time.

Jim Holman, Chairman of the Wagner Society of Washington D.C. since 1998, will give a lecture entitled “The Rhine, Wagner, and the Rhinemaidens” in anticipation of the upcoming 150th Anniversary celebration of the first performance of Wagner’s Ring Cycle at Bayreuth. These playful water nymphs are the first and last characters in The Ring Cycle and may be overlooked for the more prominent roles that appear throughout the four operas. This lecture is dedicated to an in-depth analysis of the most lyrical and charming characters appearing in the 15+ hours of music in this epic opera. This is a lecture for history and opera buffs alike!

Singers from the Met’s prestigious Lindemann Young Artist Development Program perform on February 16.

In April Emmanuel DuCamp, Ph.D. presents “The Opéra Garnier in Paris: The Architectural Equivalent of Lyrical Art.“ The Opéra Garnier is as much a symbol of Paris as the newly restored Notre Dame and the Louvre Museum.

Rich in opera and ballet history, it is an architectural masterpiece blending the decorative Baroque, the classicism of Palladio and the symmetry of Renaissance styles into an extraordinarily complex and opulent facade. Dr. Ducamp’s highly researched and in-depth presentations are enjoyed equally by laypersons and academics.

The Four Arts hopes this salute to Opera piques the interest of those who are considering a leap of faith into the world of opera, as well as our seasoned opera buffs!

Join Emmanuel DuCamp for a look inside The Opéra Garnier in Paris on April 10.

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SANDA & JEREMIAH LAMBERT CONCERT SERIES “Spanish Journey” Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Wednesday, February 5, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. $40 • No charge for Four Arts members Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium Generously supported by the Chisholm Foundation

Dover Quartet

Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. $40 • No charge for Four Arts members Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet Piano

Sunday, February 23, 2025 at 3 p.m. $40 • No charge for Four Arts members Gubelmann Auditorium

Viano Quartet

Wednesday, February 26, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. $40 • No charge for Four Arts members Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium The Viano Quartet, winner of the 2019 Banff Competition, is among the most sought-after young quartets in North America.

They present a witty, winking work by Joseph Haydn, together with adventure-filled, celestial music by Alistair Coleman, written in 2019 and inspired by the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing. Rounding out the concert is the folk-infused G Major Quartet of Antonín Dvořák, which he wrote shortly after returning home from America.

In honor of the 150th birthday of Maurice Ravel, pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet presents selections from Ravel’s body of music for the keyboard. From youthful entries like the Pavane for a Dead Princess to the transcendent landscapes of Miroirs to the nostalgic Noble and Sentimental Waltzes, the program shows off the expressive, singable appeal of Ravel’s writing. Le Tombeau de Couperin, his final work for the instrument, paints moving portraits of friends he lost in World War I.

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Photo by Kevin Condon

Photo by Aurelien Bergot

Widely hailed as one of the best chamber groups performing today, the Dover Quartet presents a captivating and emotionally stirring program of classic quartet repertoire. Mozart’s D Major Quartet, written for the King of Prussia, puts a spotlight on the king’s instrument: the cello. Schumann’s A minor quartet has no shortage of fireworks, and in Tchaikovsky’s first string quartet, which features the famed Andante Cantabile, the group displays their tenderest, sweetest sounds on some of the finest of Russian melodies.

Photo by Roy Cox

At the turn of the 20th century, musicians worked to develop a distinctly Spanish style of composition. On this Spanish Journey, works of Arbós, Falla, Turina, and Sarasate combine the forms and instruments of European Classical music with the harmonies of Spanish folk tunes. Award-winning guitarist Jason Vieaux presents a thrilling number by Isaac Albéniz.

Songs of Joaquín Rodrigo and Fernando Obradors show off the stunning musicality of the Spanish language itself.

Photo by Julien Benhamou

Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. $40 • No charge for Four Arts members Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium Generously supported by the Chisholm Foundation

Photos by Marco Borggreve

Entrancing Finnish pianist Juho Pohjonen presents favorite Romantic sonatas with star violinists Paul Huang and Danbi Um. The fiddlers team up to perform sublime and scintillating violin duos by Eugène Ysaÿe and Amy Barlowe. And all three come together for a heartfelt suite

by Moritz Moszkowski and Pablo de Sarasate’s showstopping Navarra, celebrations of the rare treat of this instrumental combination.

“Vivaldi Four Seasons at 300” Les Arts Florissants with Théotime Langlois de Swarte, violin

Sunday, March 16, 2025 at 3 p.m. $40 • No charge for Four Arts members Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium The much-acclaimed French ensemble Les Arts Florissants brings gems of the Baroque era to listeners around the world. In a program with a focus on Italy, they present virtuosic string music by Claudio Monteverdi, Antonio Vivaldi, Francesco Geminiani, and others. They tie it all together with performances of all of Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” concertos, beloved and evocative works in which the musicians re-imagine sounds like the barking of dogs, the calling of birds, and the sweet pitter-patter of snow.

Anne-Marie McDermott Piano

Photo by J. Henry Fair

Sunday, March 23, 2025 at 3 p.m. $40 • No charge for Four Arts members Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium

Photo by Marco Borggreve

Violins and piano

Photo by Matteo Trisolini

Paul Huang, Danbi Um, and Juho Pohjonen

Pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, famed for vibrant interpretations of J.S. Bach, has played around the world to great critical acclaim as a recitalist, soloist, and chamber musician. She presents a program of Baroque and Baroque-inspired music, starting with Bach’s English Suite No. 3 in G minor and the dramatic Partita No. 2 in C minor. Then, Federico Busoni’s keyboard arrangement of Bach’s Chaconne brings out its tragic pathos, and Johannes Brahms takes a simple tune by George Frederic Handel and builds it into a majestic masterpiece.

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Alessio Bax and Lucille Chung Pianos

Wednesday, April 2, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. $40 • No charge for Four Arts members Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium Piano duo Alessio Bax and Lucille Chung combine their keyboard powers in this program of Italian, French, and Argentine works for two pianos. From Federico Busoni’s delightful arrangement of a Mozart Piano Concerto to the cheeky two-piano concerto of Francis Poulenc and to the stormy La Valse of Maurice Ravel, they offer no shortage of two-piano amusements. Plus, they perform Claude Debussy’s familiar Clair de Lune and original arrangements of sensual tangos by Astor Piazzola.

Photo by Nikolaj Lund

Quartetto di Cremona

Sunday, April 6, 2025 at 3 p.m. $40 • No charge for Four Arts members Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium

High Fidelity Bluegrass

Sunday, April 27, 2025 at 3 p.m. $40 • No charge for Four Arts members Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium Join us for an afternoon of rocking, rollicking bluegrass music with High Fidelity. Winner of the International Band Championship for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America, this group of young music lovers draws on the iconic bluegrass records of the 1950s and 60s to create a sound rooted in the past but always pointing toward the future. They present a program of original and classic numbers, performed with high fidelity to bluegrass tradition.

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Photo by Amy Richmond / Rebel Records

The Quartetto di Cremona has established a reputation as one of the most exciting chamber ensembles on the international stage. With his G minor String Quartet, Claude Debussy brought his impressionistic sense to a novel medium, inspiring generations of composers to create beautiful, new string quartet sonorities. Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov has taken up the mantle, combining folk sounds and an imaginative palette to write music that sings and sighs.

But few have been as inventive as Ludwig van Beethoven, whose A minor String Quartet is full of shocking yet moving sonic ventures.

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE Saturdays at 2 p.m. • Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium

Photo by Johan Persson

Enjoy top-notch drama performed in London.

All screenings are previously recorded.

Vanya

adapted by Simon Stephens after Anton Chekhov

Saturday, February 1, 2025 at 2 p.m. $30 • $25 for Four Arts members $15 for students with valid ID 1 hour, 55 minutes with no intermission Directed by Sam Yates

Photo by Marc Brenner

Andrew Scott (Fleabag) brings multiple characters to life in Simon Stephens’ radical new version of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. Ivan (Uncle Vanya) has spent his life managing the estate and business affairs of his family with little regard for his effort. Hopes, dreams, and regrets are thrust into sharp focus in this one-man adaptation which explores the complexities of human emotions.

Nye

a new play by Tim Price

Saturday, March 1, 2025 at 2 p.m. $30 • $25 for Four Arts members • $15 students with valid ID 2 hours, 40 minutes with one intermission Directed by Rufus Norris Michael Sheen (The Queen, Frost/Nixon) plays Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan in a surreal and spectacular journey through the life and legacy of the man who transformed Britain’s welfare state. From campaigning at the coalfield to leading the battle to create the National Health Service, Nye was the politician with greatest influence over the UK without ever being Prime Minister. Confronted with death, Nye’s memories lead him on a mind-bending journey back through his life, from childhood to mining, Parliament and fights with Churchill.

Photo by Manuel Harlan

Present Laughter

by Noël Coward

Saturday, March 29, 2025 at 2 p.m. $30 • $25 for Four Arts members $15 for students with valid ID 3 hours with one intermission Directed by Matthew Warchus

As he prepares to embark on an overseas tour, star actor Garry Essendine’s colorful life is in danger of spiraling out of control in this giddy and surprisingly modern reflection on fame, desire and loneliness. Engulfed by an escalating identity crisis as his many and various relationships compete for his attention, Garry’s few remaining days at home are a chaotic whirlwind of love, sex, panic and soul-searching.

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FLORIDA VOICES Wednesdays at 1:30 p.m. • King Library unless noted

This book discussion series engages in dialog with celebrated authors.

Each program features a presentation by the author, a Q&A, and a book signing.

Reservations are available for in-person attendance, for viewing the discussion live online, or for viewing online up to 30 days following the presentation.

Clay Henderson

Audubon’s Birds of Florida

Wednesday, January 22, 2025 at 1:30 p.m.

No charge • Reservations required John James Audubon’s expedition to Florida 1831-1832 was the most significant journey of the famous artist/naturalist. Audubon’s Birds of Florida contains a chronology and thorough description of the expedition and includes high resolution reproductions of all the birds Audubon drew in Florida. Henderson has visited and searched for birds in each of the places explored by Audubon, with an understanding of how those places have changed. He has served as president of Florida Audubon Society and Florida Trust for Historic Preservation.

Scott Eyman

Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided

Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at 1:30 p.m.

No charge • Reservations required Interviewed by Mary Weiss Explore Charlie Chaplin’s fall from grace in the aftermath of World War II. Chaplin was criticized for being politically liberal and internationalist in outlook and had never become a U.S. citizen, and his sexual interest in young women became a convenient way for those who opposed his politics to condemn him. Refused permission to return to the U.S. after a trip abroad, he settled in Switzerland. Eyman, formerly the literary critic at The Palm Beach Post, is the author or co-author of 16 books. He and his wife, Lynn, live in West Palm Beach.

Keri Watson

Florida’s New Deal Parks and Post Office Murals Wednesday, April 9, 2025 at 1:30 p.m.

No charge • Reservations required

What do the West Palm Beach Post Office’s “Barefoot Mailman” murals and the Florida Caverns State Park in Marianna have in common? Both were funded by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal. In Florida, 16 new post offices were built between 1937 and 1943, and each was decorated with murals or relief sculptures paid for by the Treasury Department’s Section of Painting and Sculpture. Watson is an award-winning curator, author, and associate professor of art history at the University of Central Florida.

Florida Voices is generously supported by the Fred J. Brotherton Endowment for Literature, established at The Four Arts by the Fred J. Brotherton Charitable Foundation. Fred Brotherton, who died in 2003, was for many years a Benefactor of The Four Arts and a strong supporter of its programs. Florida Voices, featuring the state that was Mr. Brotherton’s winter home, serves as a continuing memorial to this much-respected member of The Four Arts.

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Listen to Your Camp Counselors, Flora Collins and Simon Doonan

By Simon Doonan Special to The Four Arts Simon says…

On February 26, I will be interviewing Flora Collins, the wickedly fascinating young novelist, for the Florida Voices series at the Dixon Education Building. Apres chat, Flora will be signing copies of Nanny Dearest and A Small Affair and I will also be signing copies of my latest book.

Yes, I was once a famous window dresser, but now I too am an author, with a spanking new blockbuster: The CAMP 100: Glorious Flamboyance from Louis XIV to Lil Nas X. Powder your wigs and grab your lorgnettes!

In anticipation of our Camp convergence, I recently sat down with Flora to discuss the nature of Camp.

Flora: Would you describe Palm Beach as “camp”?

Simon: Emphatically YES! Camp celebrates glamour, excess and artifice. Et voila! Palm Beach. As Susan Sontag once said, “The hallmark of Camp is a spirit of extravagance.

Camp is a woman walking around in a dress made of three million feathers.”

I saw one at Publix this morning!

Flora: Are lady novelists Camp?

Simon: Agatha Christie, Jackie Collins, Barbara Cartland?? Hello! I cannot believe you had to ask. They all get an adoring camp shout-out in my book.

Flora: What about me?

Simon: Your book title Nanny Dearest is clearly a camp nod to to the campest movie of all time: Mommie Dearest. What could be more camp?

Flora: What is the difference between CAMP and campy?

Simon: This is an important distinction. Here’s a great example: John Wayne westerns are Camp, whereas Blazing Saddles is wildly and deliberately ‘campy.’ The former

is unintentional authentic Camp and the latter is hilariously and brilliantly ‘in on the joke’ and ‘campy.’

Flora: Is Camp relevant today?

Simon: Totes! And we need Camp now more than ever. Camp can help us combat the divisive chaos of social media. Those algorithms badger us into adopting polarized love/hate positions about everything from politics to designer handbags. Camp to the rescue! With it’s posture of amused detachment, Camp allows us to sit back and gaze at the world from a distance. Think Oscar Wilde!

Think Diana Vreeland! The Camp sensibility is about enjoyment rather than judgment.

Flora: Hallelujah! I’m so ready.

Flora Collins

Nanny Dearest and A Small Affair

Wednesday, February 26, 2025 at 1:30 p.m.

No charge • Reservations required Dixon Education Building Interviewed by Simon Doonan Join us for a captivating event where bestselling authors Flora Collins and Simon Doonan interview each other, offering a unique, behind-the-scenes look at their lives, friendship, and creative journeys. Flora will discuss her gripping psychological thrillers, Nanny Dearest and A Small Affair, while Simon spotlights his newest book, Camp 100. Both will dive into their work in the art and fashion worlds.

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FOUR ARTS STAFF

Phillip Barnes, Director of Staging & Technical Services

Susan Harris Head of The Children’s Library

Phil O’Connell Circulation & Acquisitions Senior Library Associate

Barnes, Harris, and O’Connell celebrate 20 years at The Four Arts

By David Darby The Four Arts Three Four Arts employees share something in common — they became full-time staffers here in 2004. Phil O’Connell moved to full-time that January after volunteering and working part time previously. Susan Harris began with the Children’s Library in June and Phillip Barnes joined as a stage manager in August.

To celebrate their more than 20 years of service to The Four Arts — only Director of Membership Services Debra Watson has a longer tenure among the current staff — we asked them five questions reflecting on the Four Arts then, now and in the future.

The Four Arts: How were you hired and for what role at The Four Arts? Has your role changed since?

Barnes: In August 2004, after relocating from Boston to Florida, I was hired as a stage manager following an advertisement in the newspaper by The Society of the Four Arts. One of the primary reasons I was chosen for this role was my extensive background in audio-visual, sound system, and stage management, which aligned well with the needs of the position. In 2011, my role expanded when I was promoted to Director, taking on responsibilities in IT, theatre production, and audiovisual technology.

Harris: I was hired on June 7, 2004, as Director of The Children’s Library by Mr. Ervin S. Duggan, Mrs. Molly Charland, and with “gentle persuasion” from then Chairman of The Board, Mr. Fitz Eugene Dixon, Jr. Mr. Dixon encouraged me to “grow” The Children’s Library and that is why I took the job! My role has not changed but my title was changed to Chief of Staff in 2012-13 and then to Head of The Children’s Library in 2013 to present.

O’Connell: I began as a volunteer for a full Season of Saturdays in the King Library, then worked Part Time for a Season before Molly Charland hired me to work at the Front Desk full time in 2004. The biggest changes have come in learning and implementing the continual technological advances of the past two decades.

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The Four Arts: What did you know about and/or what were your initial impressions of The Four Arts?

Barnes: Although I was initially unfamiliar with The Four Arts, my passion for the arts and theatre production made it an ideal fit for me.

Harris: When I married and moved to Florida in 1981, I was not familiar with The Four Arts. My husband and I lived in a Guest Cottage for several years and the owner just so happened to be a member of The Four Arts. I learned a lot about the organization and the programs. My first impression was the organization had an open door for growth and potential.

O’Connell: My initial impression of the Four Arts — which remains as strong as ever — was the genuine passion of patrons for the Society and their commitment to and enjoyment of all its offerings, aims and goals.

Phil O’Connell hands a book to a King Library patron.

The Four Arts: How has The Four Arts evolved during your tenure?

Susan Harris reads during “American Farmer Day” Preschool Story Time.

Barnes: During my time at The Four Arts, I have overseen significant technological advancements. These include upgrading the theatre’s outdated sound and lighting systems in 2005, transitioning the cinema system from film to digital, modernizing audiovisual systems across all buildings, and relocating the server room to the Dixon building during its renovation. My expertise in A/V and sound system management played a key role in these upgrades and in decisions regarding equipment selection and implementation. Additionally, I played a crucial role in connecting all buildings via fiber optic cables, creating a campus-wide Wi-Fi system, and implementing live streaming for members in 2013. I was also involved in the decision-making for the server room and A/V equipment during the King Library renovation.

Harris: Under my tenure, The Children’s Library has grown from 1,000 patrons/visitors a year to 5,000, 10,000, 20,000, 30,000, and even 45,000 per year. Since my hiring in June 2004 through November 2024 The Children’s Library has had over 680,000 patrons/visitors.

O’Connell: It has been wonderful to see so many projects come to fruition: the grand enhancement of the Philip Hulitar Sculpture Garden, the stunning renovations of the Dixon Building and the Gioconda and Joseph King Library. And, of course, the constant expansion and excellence of the Four Arts programs is genuinely marvelous to behold year after year.

The Four Arts: What are you most proud of during your time here?

Barnes: I am most proud of the technological improvements I’ve brought to The Four Arts over the past 20 years, and I look forward to contributing to the upcoming renovation of the O’Keeffe building.

Harris: I am most proud of the growth and the opportunity to provide outreach to the thousands of children, families, and school students who have joined us throughout my tenure.

O’Connell: I still have moments — many — while working when I am suddenly struck by the fact that I work in so beautiful a campus where I am in perpetual contact with great lovers of the arts.

I am certainly proud and endearingly gratified to be a part of such a community.

Phillip Barnes’ tech department includes Elvio Salazar, center, and Benny Irene, right.

The Four Arts: What are you looking forward to at The Four Arts in the future?

Barnes: I look forward to the upcoming renovation of the O’Keeffe building.

Harris: In the future I am looking forward to even more opportunities in The Children’s Library and having our programs televised in Palm Beach County, State-wide, Nation-wide, and even World-wide.

O’Connell: More and more of my last three answers!

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FRIDAY FILMS Select Fridays • Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium

This Four Arts-curated series proudly presents entertaining selections of second-run hidden gems, documentaries, and feature films best enjoyed in a theater setting and which complement the season’s programming. Some screenings include a Q&A following.

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

Fatal Watch

Friday, February 7, 2025 at 4:30 p.m. $10 • No charge for Four Arts members 2024 • PG-13 • 1 hour, 26 minutes • Q&A follows with producer Katie Carpenter From Fiji to Ghana, Panama to the High Seas, “Fatal Watch” weaves a suspenseful tale of the marine observers who died under suspicious circumstances while monitoring commercial fishing fleets — and the investigators who fight to expose the truth about their disappearances.

The Life Ahead

Friday, February 14, 2025 at 2 and 5:30 p.m. $10 • No charge for Four Arts members 2020 • PG-13 • 1 hour, 34 minutes In English and Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, and Romanian with English subtitles In seaside Italy, a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business takes in a 12-year-old street kid who recently robbed her. Directed

by Edoardo Ponti and starring his mother, Sophia Loren.

Anatomy of a Fall

Friday, February 21, 2025 at 2 and 5:30 p.m. $10 • No charge for Four Arts members 2023 • R • 2 hours, 31 minutes In English and French and German with English subtitles In this Oscar-winning mystery, a woman is suspected of murder after her husband’s death, and their visually challenged son faces a moral dilemma as the main witness.

Ferrari

Friday, February 28, 2025 at 2 and 5:30 p.m. $10 • No charge for Four Arts members 2023 • R • 2 hours, 10 minutes Set in the summer of 1957, with Enzo Ferrari’s auto empire in crisis, the exracer turned entrepreneur pushes himself and his drivers to the edge as they launch into the Mille Miglia, a treacherous 1,000mile race across Italy. Apart from the racing itself, this is an engrossing true story directed by Michael Mann with Adam Driver as Ferrari and also stars Penélope Cruz and Shailene Woodley.

March Madness!

Turn to Page 3 for March’s Friday Film Series selections.

Free popcorn will be available!

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The Lost King

Mr. Jones

Friday, April 4, 2025 at 2 and 5:30 p.m. $10 • No charge for Four Arts members 2019 • Not rated 1 hour, 59 minutes In English and Ukrainian, Russian, and Welsh with English subtitles Based on real events, this thriller chronicles a British investigative journalist as he travels deep into the Soviet Union to break the news in western media of Ukraine’s famine in the early 1930s. This film adaptation stars James Norton with Vanessa Kirby and Peter Sarsgaard.

Friday, April 18, 2025 at 4:30 p.m. $10 • No charge for Four Arts members 2022 • PG-13 1 hour, 48 minutes Q&A follows with FAU professor Taylor Hagood In 2012, the remains of King Richard III were discovered thanks to amateur historian Philippa Langley, whose research had been met with skepticism by experts. The inspiring true story of a woman who refused to be ignored and who took on the country’s most eminent historians, forcing them to consider a sympathetic portrait of one of England’s most controversial kings.

Never Look Away

Friday, April 25, 2025 at 2 and 5:30 p.m. $10 • No charge for Four Arts members 2018 • R • 3 hours, 9 minutes • In Russian and German with English subtitles Young artist Kurt Barnert (Tom Schilling) has fled to West Germany but continues to be tormented by the experiences of his childhood and youth in the Nazi years and during the GDR-regime. When he meets student Ellie (Paula Beer), he is convinced that he has met the love of his life and starts to create paintings that mirror not only his own fate, but also the traumas of an entire generation.

DANCE Photo by Steven Pisano

Live Performance: “Quinto Elemento”

By Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana

Wednesday, April 16, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. $40 • No charge for Four Arts members Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium Enjoy Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana’s newlycommissioned work by Patricia Guerrero, internationally acclaimed flamenco dancerchoreographer and winner of the 2021 Spain National Dance Award. “Quinto Elemento” (Fifth Element) explores the fifth element of the earth: ether, that which we do not see yet is ever-present, the essence that makes up the space around us. Hailed as a master of tradition who dares to deconstruct the art form, Guerrero draws on her deep knowledge of traditional flamenco but pushes past the restriction of its rules. She seeks to extract the essence of flamenco itself, building from its expressive movement language while venturing beyond its current aesthetic bounds.

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SIGNATURE EVENTS King Fling

November 1, 2024 ■ Philip Hulitar Sculpture Garden A sold-out crowd of 500 attended the King Fling, raising necessary funds for the Town of Palm Beach’s King Library through ticket sales, mystery wine selection and book sales. Attendees perused gently used, brand new and expertly curated art and coffee table books in the Pannill Pavilion, generously donated by Four Arts and King Library members. Bob Merrill and his Dixieland Stompers performed American jazz songs and showtunes alongside The Coastmen Chorus, a barbershop quartet. Photos are by Capehart Photography.

Philip Hulitar Sculpture Garden

Peter and Connie Geisler with Robert Forbes

Mitra and Michael Margolis

Book sale in the Pannill Pavilion

Tara Hunt and Alan Fried

Tom Harvey and Cathie Black

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Brooke and Robert Murphy

Patty Garvy with Lee and Jill Pollock

Beverly and Daniel Floersheimer

Exhibition entrance

David Ober and Mickey Beyer

Past Forward exhibition preview

November 22, 2024 ■ Esther B. O’Keeffe Building and Four Arts Mall The Four Arts kicked off exhibition season with 200 in attendance for the opening preview of Past Forward: Native American Art from Gilcrease Museum, which tells the story of the United States through art that emphasizes Native cultures and the history of the American West. Island Kitchen provided the catering and The Garden Club of Palm Beach created a floral arrangment inspired by the exhibition. The evening was underwritten by Linda R. Olsson, Inc., Realtor. Photos are by Capehart Photography.

Ann and Robert Fromer

Bill and Christine Aylward

Bonnie McElveen-Hunter, Tom Iovino, and Giuliana Koch

Gayle and Tim DeVries

Gil Kemp with Ellen and Larry Sosnow

Katharine Wright and Rebecca A. Dunham

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EXHIBITION ON SCREEN Saturdays at 2 p.m. • Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium

This series explores great exhibitions and the lives of renowned artists.

All programs are previously recorded.

Klimt and The Kiss

John Singer Sargent

Saturday, February 15, 2025 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 Ali Ray Produced by Phil Grabsky Music by Asa Bennett Klimt was a titan of the Viennese Secession movement, creating decadent new worlds which merged tender sensuality, ancient mythology and radical modernity. Discover the scandalous life and the rich tapestry of influences behind one of the world’s favorite paintings.

Saturday, March 8, 2025 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

Gustav Klimt, The Kiss (loving couple), 1908-09.

Step into the glittering world of fashion, scandal and shameless selfpromotion that made John Singer Sargent the painter who defined an era. Explore the unique creative process of the late 19th century’s favorite portrait artist and the way in which his portraits captured the spirit of a vibrant and rapidly changing age.

Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 2 p.m. $20 • $15 for Four Arts members or students Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium 1 hour, 33 minutes with no intermission Directed by David Bickerstaff

View the gardens of some of the world’s best-loved artists to explore the unique eccentricities and loving care which went into creating private spaces that we would know through the masterpieces they inspired. For lovers of art or lovers of gardens, this is an ideal film.

Claude Monet, Water Lilies, 1906. The Art Institute of Chicago

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John Singer Sargent, Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau), 1883-84.

CREATING A NATION Gordon S. Wood, Ph.D.

The Origins of the Constitution Monday, March 3, 2025 at 3 p.m. $200 for 4-part series Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium

The 1776 revolution was transformative, as each of the thirteen states broke from the British monarchy and established republican constitutions, empowering their houses of representatives.

However, the resulting democratic excesses led elites to seek reform.

In 1787, they replaced the Articles of Confederation with a new Constitution, creating a powerful central government. Dr. Gordon S. Wood is a prominent and prolific American historian. His notable works include The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, which won the Bancroft and John H. Dunning Prizes, and The Radicalism of the American Revolution, which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize. In 2011, he received the National Humanities Medal from President Obama and the Churchill Bell. He is currently the Alva O. Way University Professor Emeritus at Brown.

Akhil Reed Amar, J.D.

Born Equal: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1840-1920 Monday, April 7, 2025 at 3 p.m. $200 for 4-part series Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium

Based on his forthcoming book, Born Equal: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1840-1920, Professor Amar’s lecture will explore America’s constitutional debates from 1840 to 1920. The narrative begins with millions of Blacks in chains and culminates with millions of women winning the right to vote. It continues from Professor Amar’s 2021 book, The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 17601840, previously presented at The Four Arts. Akhil Reed Amar is a Sterling Professor of Law at Yale University.

A summa cum laude graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School, he clerked for Judge (later Justice) Stephen Breyer before joining the Yale faculty at age 26. He is the only living Yale professor to have won the University’s unofficial triple crown: the Sterling Chair for scholarship, the DeVane Medal for teaching, and the Lamar Award for alumni service.

MASTERS OLD & NEW SERIES Marlene Strauss

Art’s Bad Boys, Part Two

Monday, February 10, 2025 at 3 p.m. $35 Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium Acclaimed art historian Marlene Strauss revisits her well received lecture series, Art’s Bad Boys.

This illustrated talk will discuss artists whose social behavior strayed from the acceptable and whose promising careers were cut short by drugs, alcohol or a deadly weapon. Included among the artists are Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Carl Andre and Ana Mendieta. Marlene Strauss is a frequent O’Keeffe Speaker at The Four Arts and an art historian whose lectures were featured annually in the Rogers Theatre of The Metropolitan Museum of Art for 25 years.

RIGHT: Jasper Johns, Target with Four Faces, 1955, encaustic on newspaper and cloth over canvas surmounted by four tintedplaster faces in wood box with hinged front, Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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TOMORROW’S BREAKTHROUGHS TODAY Presented by the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation in partnership with Heidi and Tom McWilliams Wednesdays at 3 p.m. • Dixon Education Building “Tomorrow’s Breakthroughs Today” features world-class scientists discussing the path toward new, cutting-edge treatments for Alzheimer’s disease. Now in its fourth season and second at The Four Arts, this lecture series, founded in partnership with Heidi and Tom McWilliams, invites three top investigators to 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). Founded in 1998 by Leonard A. and Ronald S. Lauder, the ADDF is dedicated to rapidly accelerating the development of novel therapeutics and biomarkers to prevent, treat, and cure Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

Mark Mintun, MD

Rhoda Au, PhD, MBA

Wednesday, February 19th, 2025 at 3 p.m. $20 • No charge for Four Arts members

Wednesday, April 9th, 2025 at 3 p.m. $20 • No charge for Four Arts members

What Does the Future of Alzheimer’s Treatment Look Like?

Over the past year, we have seen incredible progress in Alzheimer’s drugs, diagnostics, and prevention methods. But this is still only the beginning. Dr. Mark Mintun, Group Vice President of Neuroscience Research and Development at Eli Lilly and Company, will discuss his role leading the phase 3 study of Lilly’s Alzheimer’s drug donanemab, as well as directions for the future of research. Drugs like Lilly’s are expanding our arsenal and moving us closer to the holy grail for treating Alzheimer’s: combination therapies and precision medicine.

How Smartphones and Tablets Are Transforming Our Fight Against Alzheimer’s

Dr. Rhoda Au, Professor of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Neurology, Medicine and Epidemiology at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and School of Public Health, will discuss her pioneering work aimed at developing digital biomarkers.

Dr. Au is studying whether data on Alzheimer’s-related characteristics collected through smartphones and tablets can help us detect Alzheimer’s years before symptoms present. Her research, which is funded through the ADDF’s Diagnostics Accelerator, will pave the way for early diagnosis and intervention.

CREATING LEGACIES Ivan Lansberg, Ph.D.

The Enduring Enterprise: How Family Business Thrives in Turbulent Conditions Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 3 p.m. $20 • No charge for Four Arts members Dixon Education Building • Book signing to follow

Family-owned companies dominate the world’s business landscape, yet surprisingly few successfully pass from one generation to the next. Professor Ivan Lansberg taught at Yale, is on the faculty of the Kellogg School of Management and is Co-Founder at Lansberg Gersick Advisors, advising complex family enterprises worldwide. A founder of the Family Firm Institute, he was the first editor of the Family Business Review. His contributions have advanced the understanding of family business governance and succession.

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CAMPUS ON THE LAKE LECTURES Photo by Douglas Croft

Jeffrey Parish, Ph.D., and Matthew Arnold

Financing Nature to Ensure Earth Endures

Wednesday, February 5, 2025 at 3 p.m. $20 • No charge for Four Arts members Dixon Education Building Presented in partnership with The Nature Conservancy The Nature Conservancy (TNC) presents Dr. Jeff Parrish, Global Managing Director for Protect Oceans, Lands, and Water, and Matthew Arnold, Global Head of Impact Finance & Markets, featuring their transformative efforts to achieve the 30x30 initiative. This global initiative aims to protect 30% of Earth’s land and ocean by 2030.

Through the “Enduring Earth” project, TNC works to conserve our planet’s resources. TNC has created a $3.1 billion investment portfolio and improved carbon markets to date.

Helen Molesworth

Cartier: Creativity and Innovation

Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 3 p.m. $20 • No charge for Four Arts members Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium Presented in partnership with the American Friends of the Victoria & Albert Museum Helen Molesworth, Senior Curator of Jewelry at the V&A, will be talking about the Museum’s upcoming exhibition Cartier: Creativity and Innovation. The exhibition will take a holistic approach to illustrate the jeweler house’s compelling story through showstopping pieces, rare archival material, striking design and a rich and layered interpretation. It will include about 300 objects, from precious jewels, gems and watches to objets d’art and previously unseen drawings from the Cartier and V&A archives.

Robert van Langh, Ph.D.

The Conservator as a Material Historian: Connoisseurship of Materials is Pivotal in the Future!

Monday, February 24, 2025 at 3 p.m. $20 • No charge for Four Arts members • Dixon Education Building Understanding the history of materials is crucial for attributing artworks to specific makers.

Conservators, as historians of materials, collaborate with scientists to establish verifiable markers for attribution, complementing traditional art historical methods. This collaborative approach, exemplified in the Netherlands, has led to innovative insights and standards, such as Operation Night Watch at the Rijksmuseum. Dr. Robert van Langh, Head of Conservation and Research at the Rijksmuseum, will share examples and visions for the future of the field.

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Bénédicte de Montlaur with Philippe Villeneuve and Barry Bergdoll, Ph.D.

Rebuilding Notre-Dame: The Largest Preservation Project of the Century Monday, March 10, 2025 at 3 p.m. $20 • No charge for Four Arts members Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium

On April 15, 2019, the devastating fire at Notre-Dame de Paris underscored humanity’s deep connection to heritage sites and sparked a determined effort to rebuild. Led by Bénédicte de Montlaur, President and CEO of World Monuments Fund (WMF), this ambitious project aims to restore and reopen the iconic medieval landmark within five years. Join the discussion with special guests Philippe Villeneuve, Chief Architect of Notre-Dame, and Dr. Barry Bergdoll, Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, to delve into this monumental preservation endeavor.

John Willis

John Willis

Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 3 p.m. $20 • No charge for Four Arts members Dixon Education Building Book signing to follow

Monday, March 17, 2025 at 3 p.m. $20 • No charge for Four Arts members Dixon Education Building Book signing to follow

Nagasaki: The Forgotten Prisoners

On August 9, 1945, America dropped its most powerful atomic bomb on Nagasaki, where hundreds of British, Australian, American, and Dutch prisoners were working nearby. This hidden history, chronicled by John Willis, depicts their incredible survival during WWII’s trials, from the fall of Singapore to constructing the infamous River Kwai Railway. Despite enduring horrors, their tale reveals resilience amidst terrifying circumstances. Willis, a leading TV executive with roles at the BBC, Channel 4, and WGBH Boston, brings their story to light.

Fighter Boy: The Many Lives of Geoffrey Page

Geoffrey Page, a remarkable WWII fighter pilot, was severely burned during the Battle of Britain. Despite his injuries, he flew in D-Day, Normandy, and Arnhem. During two years in the hospital, he underwent fifteen operations, vowing to shoot down a German aircraft for each one, a goal he ultimately achieved. Join one of Britain’s foremost television executives, John Willis, as he shares this hero’s story through his book, Fighter Boy: The Many Lives of Geoffrey Page. Geoffrey Page has a connection to The Four Arts: his daughter, Mrs. Shelley Gubelmann, is a Trustee and chair of the Education Committee.

Princess Pélagie de Bourbon-Parme

A Woman in Burgundy: Balancing Tradition with Modernity

Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 3 p.m. $20 • No charge for Four Arts members Dixon Education Building The Château de Sully, a Renaissance jewel in Burgundy, has produced wines since the 18th century. Under legendary winemaker Amélie, The Duchess of Magenta, it is globally renowned for burgundies. Her daughter, Princess Pélagie de Bourbon-Parme, will discuss her family’s generational wine-making knowledge, her mother’s trail-blazing career and the launching of her wine label with husband Prince Amaury de Bourbon-Parme. In this lecture she hopes to demystify burgundy wines by showing how the family’s wine is made today at Abbaye de Morgeot.

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William Middleton

The Iconic Karl Lagerfeld

Monday, March 24, 2025 at 3 p.m. $20 • No charge for Four Arts members Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium Book signing to follow In a sixty-five-year career, Karl Lagerfeld became one of fashion’s most iconic figures. Born in Hamburg during WWII, he moved to Paris at 18 and won the Woolmark Prize by 21, thus launching his career. In 1983, he became Chanel’s artistic director, transforming it into a global powerhouse. Join William Middleton, former Fashion Features Director for Harper’s Bazaar and Paris Bureau Chief for W and Women’s Wear Daily, to explore Lagerfeld’s impact and discuss his book, Paradise Now: The Extraordinary Life of Karl Lagerfeld, now being adapted into a documentary.

William Middleton

Great Art and Enlightened Patronage: Dominique and John de Menil

Wednesday, March 26, 2025 at 11 a.m. $20 • No charge for Four Arts members Dixon Education Building Book signing to follow JOHNSON

THE YOUNG MAN AND THE TREE

The Young Man and the Tree showcases Fernando Wong, hailed by Elle Decor as “one of the most influential landscape designers in America.” Born in Panama, Wong trained in architecture and interior design before moving to the US in 2001. Along with his partner, Tim Johnson, he co-founded Fernando Wong Outdoor Living Design in 2005, transforming it into a global firm. This book highlights his renowned designs, including lush gardens, elaborate garden follies, pools, pavilions, fountains, sculpture gardens, and hardscapes.

Mieke ten ave

Dominique and John de Menil, both born in Paris, became influential art collectors after moving to America during WWII. Settling in Houston, they built a modernist house by Philip Johnson, the Rothko Chapel with 14 Mark Rothko panels, and The Menil Collection museum by Renzo Piano, housing over 15,000 works of art. Their dedication to leading artists enriched Houston’s cultural landscape and the American art world. Join William Middleton to explore the Menils’ legacy and discuss his book, Double Vision, the first biography of these Franco-American collectors.

The Young Man and the Tree

FERNANDO WONG LANDSCAPE DESIGN

Wednesday, March 26, 2025 at 3 p.m. $20 • No charge for Four Arts members Dixon Education Building Book signing to follow

Fernando Wong and Tim Johnson

Frederick Ilchman, Ph.D.

A Broader Definition of Spanish Art: The Naples of Artemisia Gentileschi and the Antwerp of Rubens Monday, March 31, 2025 at 3 p.m. $20 • No charge for Four Arts members Dixon Education Building

This lecture challenges the notion that Spain was the sole center of artistic brilliance during the Golden Age. It explores how many outstanding Spanish artists such as Artemisia Gentileschi and Peter Paul Rubens flourished outside the Iberian Peninsula. In preparation for a loan exhibition, this lecture will investigate the teeming Naples of Artemisia Gentileschi and the bustling Antwerp of Peter Paul Rubens. Join Dr. Frederick Ilchman, Chair, Art of Europe, at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, as he provides an insider’s look.

Peter Paul Rubens, Archduke Ferdinand, (1635), Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Fla.

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NEW DATE! The Duchess of Rutland The Accidental Duchess

Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 3 p.m. $20 • No charge for Four Arts members Dixon Education Building Book signing to follow Her Grace, The Duchess of Rutland is the daughter of a farmer from Knighton in the Welsh Marches. Today, she manages Belvoir Castle’s commercial activities, including events, weddings, and shooting parties. She is also a devoted mother of five. Her Grace has appeared on various TV programs and written three books about Belvoir. The Duchess will share her journey from a farmer’s daughter to managing a working estate and raising her children.

Emmanuel Ducamp, Ph.D.

The Development of Italian Gardens: From Baroque Villas to “English” Landscapes and 20th-century Creations Wednesday, April 2, 2025 at 3 p.m. $20 • No charge for Four Arts members Dixon Education Building

In a continuation of lectures from last season, Dr. Emmanuel Ducamp returns to The Four Arts to illuminate the topic of Italian gardens. Rooted in traditions from Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Italian Renaissance villas and gardens evolved during the Baroque period with geometrical “green rooms” and terraces. He will discuss the Frascati villas, the royal park at Caserta, the 20th-century garden at La Foce, and the Giardino dei Tarocchi. Dr. Ducamp, an art historian and lawyer, began his career specializing in European Decorative Arts.

Captain Leslie Scott

The Supersonic Art of Concorde

Thursday, April 3, 2025 at 3 p.m. $20 • No charge for Four Arts members Dixon Education Building Captain Leslie Scott has been flying for over 47 years, both in the British and US corporate world. From Vickers VC10, Boeing 747, BAC 1-11, Gulfstream IVs/Vs, to his record setting flight on Concorde, Captain Scott has seen it all. In 1996, he and his crew set the current world record time from New York to London of just under 3 hours in the Concorde plane. Join Captain Scott as he takes us through his world record flight and the future of supersonic travel.

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The Countess of Derby

The North American Travel Journal of the 14th Earl of Derby, Thrice Prime Minister to Queen Victoria Tuesday, April 8, 2025 at 3 p.m. $20 • No charge for Four Arts members Dixon Education Building

In 1824, Edward Stanley traveled from Liverpool across Eastern Canada and the US, journeying through New England to Niagara Falls, exploring the St. Lawrence River and Great Lakes, and reaching New Orleans via the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. His experiences, detailed in his journal, profoundly influenced his career as a political reformer and British Prime Minister. The Countess of Derby in conversation with University of Virginia History Professor Dr. Andrew O’Shaughnessy, will discuss the Earl’s rediscovered manuscript and youth travel journals, which she is currently publishing.

Silvia Beltrametti, Ph.D.

The Torlonia Marbles: Universal Icons Wednesday, April 23, 2025 at 3 p.m. $20 • No charge for Four Arts members Dixon Education Building

A rare collection of ancient Roman sculptures, part of the renowned Torlonia collection, is making its US debut at the Art Institute of Chicago in March 2025. This marks the first time these masterpieces, dating back almost 2,000 years, have crossed the Atlantic. Dr. Silvia Beltrametti, a Senior Lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, will discuss the exhibit, focusing on cultural heritage, identity, and strategies for international art circulation.

Right: Fanciulla da Vulci, Collezione Torlonia, Rome, Copyright Fondazione Torlonia PH Lorenzo De Masi

MASTER CLASSES Taylor Hagood, Ph.D.

Jeffrey Morton, Ph.D.

Mondays from 5:30 to 7 p.m. $125 for 4-part series or $35 per lecture Dixon Education Building

Thursdays from 3 to 4:30 p.m. $125 for 4-part series or $35 per lecture Dixon Education Building

The Shakespearean Comedy

February 10: Love and Masking March 17: The Problems April 14: The Romances 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.

American Foreign Policy

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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THE GARDEN CLUB OF PALM BEACH The Garden Club of Palm Beach is dedicated to preserving our natural world through its work in floral design, horticulture, the environment, conservation, and civic improvements.

Its dedicated members maintain the Demonstration Garden at The Four Arts, host two annual fundraisers, present a biennial flower show, and sponsor educational and entertaining programs open to club members as well as the general public.

House & Garden Day Sunday, March 2, 2025 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

No charge No reservations needed Four Arts Mall

Shop an outdoor boutique with local vendors in front of the O’Keeffe Building.

Tickets to the tour of homes are available by invitation only and must be purchased in advance, with shuttle bus service to and from The Four Arts from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

ANNUAL SPEAKERS

Bunny Williams with Elizabeth Lawrence Design for Living: Creating Stylish Interiors and Welcoming Gardens with Williams Lawrence

Thursday, February 6, 2025 at 3 p.m.

No charge for Four Arts members and Garden Club members No reservations needed Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium Williams Lawrence, the acclaimed interior design firm helmed by Bunny Williams, top, and Elizabeth Lawrence, right, crafts exquisite living spaces that blend sophistication with comfort.

Their portfolio spans urban apartments, rural retreats, and coastal havens—including numerous Palm Beach projects — each imbued with a unique character and impeccable style.

Join these design luminaries as they explore the artistry of decoration, delve into the crucial interplay between landscape and interiors, and offer exclusive glimpses into their favorite projects from over two decades of collaboration. Bunny will also unveil her own extraordinary Connecticut home and garden, the subject of her latest book, Life in the Garden. In conversation with Elizabeth, she’ll share personal insights from her design journey and reveal the wisdom gleaned from creating this remarkable property.

IN BLOOM Flower Show “Flight of Fancy” Saturday, April 12 and Sunday, April 13, 2025 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

No charge No reservations needed Esther B. O’Keeffe Building

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FOUR ARTS CONTEMPORARIES Tuesdays at 5:30 p.m.

Dixon Education Building

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

Brian Kelley

Archiving the Oldest and Largest Trees in the U.S.

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.

Thursday, March 13, 2025 at 3 p.m. $20 • No charge for Four Arts or Garden Club members Dixon Education Building Presented in partnership with The Garden Club of Palm Beach Brian Kelley has documented 130 Champion Trees since 2017 as an American Forests ambassador.

He founded the Gathering Growth Foundation to expand this work, visually preserving significant trees and forests while promoting preservation awareness. The foundation has archived over 600 notable trees and forests.

Kelley’s photography career evolved from skateboarding to commercial work, including Nike campaigns in New York City. Now, he lives in a van, traveling the US to document some of the oldest and largest trees.

Jonathan Adler

The Dean of Design

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 at 5:30 p.m.

Get schooled in design history by potter and designer Jonathan Adler and learn how to apply the lessons of yesterday to today. Explore design through the names and movements you should know and understand the foundational rules of decorating – so you can break them. Say farewell to feelings of intimidation when it comes to your interiors and embrace your most glamorous, eccentric self. In 1993, Barneys bought his first collection of pots, and in 1998, Adler opened his first store. Today his offerings span furniture, lighting, décor, and iconic interior design projects, and retail locations worldwide.

Clifton Leaf

The Permission Switch: The Hidden Mechanism that Lets Doers Do — and How to Turn it On Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 5:30 p.m.

Currently an adjunct graduate professor of journalism at Columbia University, Clifton Leaf served as Editorin-Chief of Fortune from 2017 to 2021 — which, during his tenure, won more than 70 top journalism prizes and substantially expanded its businesses. His new book, The Permission Switch, examines the ON-OFF switch in our minds for internal empowerment. When your switch is set to ON, you’re filled with confidence — and, importantly, the permission to act on that bold idea and follow through, even in the face of multiple challenges.

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THE CENTENNIAL CAMPAIGN The Society of the Four Arts’ Centennial Campaign is raising funds to support our Master Plan, which will allow the Four Arts to serve its members and its community for the next one hundred years.

We appreciate the early support from the following individuals and foundations (As of December 31, 2024)

$10MM - $50MM Anonymous John A. (dec.) & Carole Moran Sanda & Jeremiah Lambert $5MM - $9.999MM The Honorable Bonnie McElveen-Hunter $2MM - $4.999MM Michele & Lawrence Beyer William & Janet James Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Iovino The Honorable John L. & Mrs. Sharon Loeb, Jr. Mrs. Jordan Saunders John & Diane Sculley Randall & Barbara Smith $1M - $1,999,999 Patrick Davidson & Diane Couto Miranda & Robert G. Donnelley The Honorable David T. & Mrs. Jennifer Fischer Mr. Patrick Foy Mrs. Jack M. Friedland Estate Audrey & Martin Gruss Dr. Randolph H. & Beatrice Guthrie Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Hassen Desmond & Ann Heathwood Vicky & Sam Hunt Joseph & Michelle Jacobs Reuben & Robin Jeffery Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Johnson 34 Centennial Campaign | Winter - Spring 2025 Folio

Y. Michele Kang Mr. Gil Kemp David & Cristina Kepner The Peter & Eaddo Kiernan Foundation John & Giuliana Koch The Maurer Family Foundation John “Jack” & Lynn McAtee (dec.)

Tom & Heidi McWilliams Frank & Eleanor Pao Pam & Gary Patsley Lewis & Alice Sanders Thomas & Diane Smith

An illustration of the proposed renovated Esther B. O’Keeffe Building as part of The Four Arts’ Centenial Campaign.

Illustration by Beyer Blinder Belle

$500,000 - $999,999

Other Generous Supporters

Robert & Ann Fromer Dennis & Deborah Glass Heather & Patrick Henry The Honorable Mary V. Mochary The Edward John & Patricia Rosenwald Foundation

Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. Max G. Ansbacher Mr. & Mrs. Mark Bezos Mr. & Mrs. Denis P. Coleman, Jr. Mrs. Patricia Dunnington Mrs. Edith B. Eglin Mr. & Mrs. Alexander P. Federbush James & Laura Lofaro Freeman Mr. & Mrs. Peter N. Geisler, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Peter N. Geisler, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. William S. Gubelmann Roger & Susan Hertog Mr. & Mrs. Harry E. Hill, III Mr. & Mrs. Barry Hoyt The Florence Harris Koontz Trust Mr. & Mrs. John H. Livens Mr. & Mrs. George G. Matthews The McCausland Foundation Mrs. Mary Morse Mrs. John A. Nyheim Mr. John Otto, Jr. The Hellen Plummer Charitable Foundation, Inc. Mrs. John J. Pohanka Dr. Philip & Mrs. Jane Rylands The Society of Colonial Warriors (FL) The Honorable Craig R. & Mrs. Dorothy Stapleton The Van Buren Family Foundation, Inc. Mrs. Catharine Warren & Mr. Bradley Geist Mr. Michel Witmer Mr. & Mrs. Robert K. Wood

$250,000 - $499,999 Robert & Lydia Forbes The Hulitar Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Rosin The John H. & Regina Scully Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Sosnow The Estate of Cynthia van Buren $100,000 - $249,999 Suzanne & Michael Ainslie Anonymous The Chisholm Foundation Chris & Ann Flowers The Folger Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Thomas D. Gill, Jr. Ginger & Larry Leeds Mitra & Michael Margolis Henry “Rip” McIntosh, IV The Palm Beach Country Club Foundation

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DONORS Annual giving donations received from July 1, 2024 through January 7, 2025 CHAIRMAN’S FORUM Gifts from members to The Four Arts of $25,000 or more per year

Anonymous Mrs. Virginia A. Aaron Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Ackerman Mr. and Mrs. Frederick M. Alger III Mr. and Mrs. Robb Allan Mrs. Eugene V. Amoroso Mrs. Marion H. Antonini Mr. and Mrs. Francis A. Argenbright Jr. Mrs. Walter F. Ballinger Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Barasch Mr. and Mrs. Steven W. Barnes Mr. and Mrs. Harold J. Baxter Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Belfer Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Beyer Mrs. Ellen Hassenfeld Block Mrs. F. Peter Boer Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Bolton Mr. Bill Bone Mr. and Mrs. Ronald M. Bradley Ambassador and Mrs. Stephen F. Brauer Mrs. Joan P. Brock Mr. and Mrs. William H. Browne Mrs. Robert Thomas Butler Mr. and Mrs. Ray S. Celedinas Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Clay Mrs. George A. Cohon Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Colby Mr. and Mrs. J. Barclay Collins II Ms. Ricki Gail Conway Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Cornell Mr. and Mrs. Christopher B. Cowie Mrs. John V. Crowe Mr. and Mrs. Steven Crown Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Davidson Dr. Robert Desnick and Mrs. Julie Herzig Desnick Mr. and Mrs. Timothy DeVries Mr. James C. DiPaula, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Randell C. Doane

Mr. and Mrs. James K. Dobbs III Dr. and Mrs. Jack M. Dodick Mrs. John R. Donnell Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Donnelley Ms. Shawn M. Donnelley and Dr. Christopher M. Kelly Mrs. Patricia M. Dunnington Mr. and Mrs. Edward Falkenberg Mr. and Mrs. Alfonso Fanjul Mr. and Mrs. J. Pepe Fanjul Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander P. Federbush Mr. and Mrs. Roger Felberbaum Ambassador and Mrs. David Fischer Mr. and Mrs. Brian Fitzgerald Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Fiverson Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Floersheimer Mr. and Mrs. Chris Flowers Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Forbes Mr. John S. Foster Mr. and Mrs. James L. Freeman Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Frist, III Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fromer Mr. and Mrs. R. Joseph Fuchs Mr. and Mrs. Stanley N. Gaines Mr. and Mrs. Christopher B. Galvin Mr. and Mrs. Ted A. Gardner Mr. C. Meade Geisel and Mrs. Louisa Blodgett Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Gill, Jr. The Honorable Douglas Ginsburg and The Honorable Dorothy Gray Mr. and Mrs. Dennis R. Glass Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Goergen Mr. Peter M. Gottsegen Mr. and Mrs. Oliver R. Grace Jr. Mrs. Francis Clark Grant III Mr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Green Mr. Robert F. Greenhill Mr. Kenneth C. Griffin Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Gross Mr. and Mrs. Martin D. Gruss Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Gulbrandsen Dr. and Mrs. Randolph H. Guthrie Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Hale Mrs. Julia Hansen Ms. Susan Hapak Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Hartfiel

Mr. Thomas E. Harvey and Mrs. Cathleen Black Mr. and Mrs. Desmond J. Heathwood Mr. and Mrs. Roger Hertog Mrs. Samuel Heyman Mr. and Mrs. Charles Chatterton Hickox Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hunt Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Iovino Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jacobs Mr. and Mrs. William E. James Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Jeffery III Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Johnson Ms. Jennifer Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Paul Tudor Jones Mr. and Mrs. Jason T. Kalisman Dr. and Mrs. Michael Kalisman Ms. Y. Michele Kang Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kargman Dr. and Mrs. Henry Kaufman Mr. and Mrs. David J. Kepner 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. and Dr. Jay Frederick Krehbiel Mr. John H. Krehbiel and Mrs. Karen Gray-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. Ronald S. Lauder Mr. and Mrs. D. Christopher Le Vine Ambassador and Mrs. Howard H. Leach Larry Leeds and Ginger Feuer-Leeds Mr. and Mrs. John A. Levin Mr. and Mrs. Paul S. Levy Honorable and Mrs. Robert J.D. Lloyd-George Ambassador and Mrs. John L. Loeb Jr. Ms. Patty Lowdon Mrs. Linda Macaulay

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.

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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 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 Mr. and Mrs. Jack Miller Mr. and Mrs. Henry S. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose K. Monell Mrs. John A. Moran Ms. Annette Nazareth and Mr. Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. Mr. Robert Nederlander Mr. and Mrs. John Nichols Ms. Suzanne Niedland Ms. Rochelle Ohrstrom Mr. and Mrs. Peter B. Orthwein Mrs. Katherine Ostberg and Mr. 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. Susan Steele 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 B. 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 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. 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 Mrs. Kathryn Cottrill Vecellio and Mr. 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 Dr. Herbert Wertheim and Ms. Alicia Dahill 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 Mr. and Mrs. Lars E. 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 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. Harry Burn III Mr. and Mrs. Henry Burr Mr. Brian Burry and Mrs. Helen Nicastri Mr. and Mrs. Michael Buxton Winter - Spring 2025 Folio | Donors

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DONORS, continued Annual giving donations received from July 1, 2024 through January 7, 2025 BENEFACTORS COUNCIL, continued

Gifts from members to The Four Arts of $10,000 to $24,999 per year Mr. Tyler R. Cain Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Callahan Mrs. Brenda Callaway Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey S. Caraboolad Mrs. Carroll M. Carpenter Mrs. Jane Carroll Mr. and Mrs. John V. Ceriale Mrs. Arlene Cherner Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Cigarran Dr. and Mrs. Carmel Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Larry F. Cole Jr. 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 D. 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 and Ambassador Pete Dawkins Mr. Nathaniel B. Day Mr. and Mrs. Lodewijk De Vink Mrs. J. Simpson Dean Mrs. Barbara Deane Mrs. Natalie G. Dejoux Ms. Christina Dennis Mrs. Beth Rudin DeWoody and Mr. Firooz Zahedi 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 Amb. and Mrs. Edward E. Elson 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 B. Feuer Mr. John D. Firestone Ambassador and Mrs. Richard Fisher Ms. Candia 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 Mrs. David H. Gilmour Mrs. Jay Goldberg Mr. and Mrs. John Golden Mr. and Mrs. Peter W. Gonzalez Mrs. Melvin R. Goodes Mrs. Darcy Gould Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Graber Mr. and Mrs. John R. 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 T. 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 E. 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. John Richard Knop Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Kohl Mr. Michael Kovner and Mr. Jean de Montaillou

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.

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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. Hildegarde 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 Mrs. William J. McDonough Mr. and Mrs. Theodore A. McGraw, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Martin G. McGuinn Mr. and Mrs. Terence McGuirk Mr. Henry P. McIntosh IV Mrs. Patricia McLaughlin 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. Mrs. Alicia Cannon Mullen and Mr. Timothy R. Mullen Ms. Pamelee Murphy Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Neff Mrs. Melvin B. Nessel

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 Mr. Leon Polsky 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. Francis Sanzone Mrs. Adele K. Schaeffer 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 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. Daniel R. Tisch Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Topkis 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. and Mrs. Stephen Uihlein Mrs. Nancy Best Van Deuren Mr. and Mrs. Cornelis Johannes Van Hoek Mr. and Mrs. Christopher S. Vecellio Mr. and Mrs. Stephen R. Weiner Mrs. Virginia Welch Mr. and Mrs. William C. Weldon Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Weller Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Werner Mrs. Robert John Wibbelsman Mr. and Mrs. William Barnett 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 E. Wood II 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

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DONORS, continued Annual giving donations received from July 1, 2024 through January 7, 2025 GENEROUS SUPPORTERS

Gifts from non-members to The Four Arts of $10,000 or more per year Ms. Amy Brumfield Mr. and Mrs. William N. Deatherage Mr. and Mrs. Sanford B. Ehrenkranz Mr. Edward A. Emerson Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence F. Flick, II Ms. Gertrude Morgan Coxe and Mr. Jim Gaffney Mr. Alexis Graham and Mrs. Ellen Graham Mr. Barron N. Hilton Mrs. Wendy Hubbell Mr. Harvey C. Jones and Mrs. Robin M. Gillen Mr. and Ms. Prescott Lester Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Schecter

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 Mrs. Bess Ames Mr. Thomas Andruskevich and Mrs. Suzanne McMillan Mrs. Jameson A. Baxter Mr. and Mrs. J. Michael Cook Mr. and Mrs. Peter D. Cummings Mrs. Mortimer L. Curran Mrs. Henry Darlington Jr. Mrs. Martha DeBrule Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Eder Mr. Kenneth Eisenberg Mrs. Richard A. Eliasberg Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Evans

Mr. and Mrs. William L. Farrell Mr. and Mrs. Douglas L. Feagin 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 Mr. and Mrs. John A. Hogan, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick E. Hopkins III Mrs. Charles H. Jones, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Kelly Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan S. Linen Ms. Kate Lubin and Mr. Glen Sutton Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin MacFarland Mr. and Mrs. Carmine A. Martignetti Mr. and Mrs. Donald Mintmire Mr. and Mrs. David Newton Mrs. Lorraine Odasso Mr. Steven Rappaport and Ms. Judith A. Garson Mr. and Mrs. P. Anthony Ridder Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Riley Mrs. John J. Rinker Mr. and Mrs. Scott D. Sandell Mr. and Mrs. David L. Sliney Mrs. Beverly Sommer Mrs. Louise Hitchcock Stephaich Mr. E. Rodman Titcomb and The Rev. Dr. Cecie Titcomb Mr. and Mrs. Alberto Vitale Mr. and Mrs. Raymond N. 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. Ann Ames Ms. Penny Bank Mr. and Mrs. Wael Bayazid Mr. and Mrs. George W. Beverly Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Philip Bilden Mrs. Louise L. Braver Mr. Stephen L. Brown and Mrs. Jamie Stern Mrs. Karen S. Butler Mr. and Mrs. Michael Carney III Mr. and Mrs. John E. Cay III Mr. and Mrs. Sumeet Chabria Mrs. James L. Collins Mrs. Gail Cooke Mr. and Mrs. Leslie B. Daniels 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 Mr. and Mrs. Marc Goldberg Mrs. Mary Harrington Mrs. David Herwitz Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Horvitz Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. 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 Mrs. Renee Lickle Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Lucas II Mrs. Teresa Martignetti Mr. and Mrs. Patrick A. Martin Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Martinez Mr. and Mrs. Roman Martinez IV

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.

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Mr. and Mrs. Edward Masterman Ms. Elizabeth E. Matthews Mr. and Mrs. Dale Maycen 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. J. Geddes Parsons 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 Ms. Kay T. Segerdahl Mrs. Jerome Serchuck Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bland Smith Dr. and Mrs. John Strasswimmer Mrs. E. Massie Valentine

Dr. Mary Frances Smoak Walde and Mr. William L. Walde Mr. and Mrs. William L. Wallace Ms. Kendall Wheeler 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 Mrs. Mai Tsao Arthur Mr. and Mrs. Harris J. Ashton Mrs. Ellen B. Asplundh Mr. James MacAllan Ballentine Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James B. Bertles

Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Brennan III 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 Mrs. Charlotte Ross Canet and Mr. Alejandro Canet Mr. and Mrs. Edmund M. Carpenter Mr. and Mrs. James Morgan Clifford Mr. and Mrs. C. Payson Coleman Jr. Mrs. Eileen Cornacchia and Dr. John Grabow Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Crowley Mrs. John F. Cunningham Mrs. John Cutting II Mrs. Barbara Daniels Mr. and Mrs. Loic de Kertanguy Mr. 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. James R. Freney 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. Tom Grudovich 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 Ambassador and Mrs. Eric M. Javits Ms. Elizabeth L. Johnson Mrs. Allison Ridder Johnstone Mr. and Mrs. Victor K. Kiam III Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Kirchhoff Mrs. Steven Kumble Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Larmoyeux Mrs. Elaine Learson Mr. and Mrs. Alan Remy Leist Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Leonard Mr. and Mrs. W. Edwin Lewis 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. Mark G. McGrath Mr. and Mrs. Peter D. McLeod Mr. and Mrs. Marc Alain Meadows Mr. M. Austin Mehr Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Meyer Mr. and Mrs. Craig Millard Winter - Spring 2025 Folio | Donors

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DONORS, continued Annual giving donations received from July 1, 2024 through January 7, 2025 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. Stephanie Ribakoff Mrs. Ene Riisna Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Rooney Mr. C. Tanner Rose Jr. Ms. Dana Ross Mrs. Sarane H. Ross Mrs. Stanley Rumbough Jr. 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. David Simon Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sloane Mrs. John J. Slocum Ms. Scilla Smith Ms. Elizabeth Sorrel Mrs. W. F. Souder Jr. Mrs. Kathleen Stansky Ms. Heidi L. Steiger Mr. and Mrs. Steven Stern Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. William E. Sullivan Ms. Amanda Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Harry Theodoracopulos Mrs. Sandra Thompson 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 Mrs. Linda T. Warriner Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Watkins Mr. and Mrs. Austin Willis Mr. and Mrs. Watson Wright Mrs. Ilsabe W. Wyman Ms. Janet Yaseen 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 Ms. Marilyn Balous Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Barrett Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth S. Beall Jr. Mrs. John T. Beaudouin 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 Naren Chelian Mr. Garry M. Collins Mrs. Frank S. Coniglio Nickie and Rodger Currie Mr. and Mrs. David S. Daniel Mr. William Stephenson David

Mrs. Patricia Donnelley Stockham 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 Mrs. Elizabeth B. Foster and Mr. Walter S. Foster Mr. Patrick Foy Mrs. James M. Gabler Mr. and Mrs. Robert N. Garrison Mrs. Sally M. Gibson Mrs. Doris Gilman Ms. Beth Glass 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 Ms. Adrienne Higginbotham Mr. and Mrs. Henry Phipps Hoffstot III 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 Mrs. Eleanor La Gamba Mr. Milton Lachman Mrs. Milton Lachman Mr. Charles F. Lanigan Mr. James S. Lansing Mrs. Patricia Lebow Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Leiden Mrs. L. Marguerite Lenfest

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.

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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. Roshan Massoumi Mrs. Helaine Hobby McKenney Mr. and Mrs. Stephen McPherson Mrs. Susan R. Meier 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 William Peterson Mrs. Carole A. Pichney and Mr. Daniel 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 Ms. Patricia Rowell Mrs. Carole Ruhlman and Mr. Michael Ruhlman Mrs. June Salny 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 Danielle Spiegler Mr. John Stevens 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 Mr. and Mrs. Pascal Franchot Tone Mr. and Mrs. John Vakoutis Mr. and Mrs. Peter Van der Wolk Mrs. Ralph B. Vogel Mrs. Lois and Mr. Barry Weiss Mrs. Carol Weltz Dr. Graham F. Whitfield Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Whitman III Mrs. Thomas Miller Wilkinson Mr. Frederick Wright Jr. Mrs. Shelby Wyckoff Mr. and Mrs. Ronald F. Young Mr. and Mrs. Peter 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 Heidi Duffy, given by Ms. Linda R. Olsson Joe Flanagan, given by Ms. 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

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

Merrilyn Bardes, given by David and Rebecca Barron Bonnie McElveen-Hunter, given by Mr. and Mrs. John H. Livens Nancy Talsky, given by Mr. Michael Kasdan Walter C. Teagle III, given by Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Teagle III

Photo credits: Photographs are credited where possible in this brochure. Photographs without a credit listed are

by Four Arts staff or are provided courtesy of the speakers or their management. Individual credits may be available upon written request.

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COVER PHOTO: Frank O. Salisbury (English, 1874 – 1962), Blood, Sweat & Tears (The Right Honorable Winston Churchill), 1942–42, oil on canvas, 48 x 38.5 inches; 62.5 x 52.2 inches. Gift from David and Jillian Gilmour, 2024.2