CATCH Catalog 2024

Margaretville Hospital

Dear Patrons,

Welcome!

On behalf of the Margaretville Hospital Board, greetings. We are grateful for your presence and participation in our Fourth Annual Art Auction, CATCH, Community Art to Community Health. This evening will celebrate the artwork of many donors across various mediums while helping to ensure that your family, friends and neighbors have access to high-quality healthcare close to home.

CATCH proceeds will help Margaretville Hospital, a member of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth), build a heliport to transport patients in need of acute, specialized care.

This assembly of art and this event are products of many individuals, including our generous sponsors detailed in this program. Thank you to Margaretville Telephone Company for the generous donation of the MTC Community Room, Dave Rama, Margaretville Hospital Board Member and auctioneer, John Riedl, Margaretville Hospital Board Secretary and floor manager, James Howie and Richard Siegel, CATCH committee members.

And, indeed, the ongoing support of all the Board members, we thank you for your attendance and generosity.

Emilie Adams Beth Eckels

Margaretville Hospital Margaretville Hospital Board Chair Foundation Board

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Margaretville Hospital Corporate Board

Joshua Ratner, CEO

Emilie Adams, Chair

John Riedl, Secretary

Board Members

Mike Cioffi

Connie Jeffers

Fred Margulies

Colleen Martin

Diana J. Mason, PhD, RN, FAAN

Diane Munro

David Rama

Joshua Ratner, CEO

Arnold C. Schwartz

Richard A. Siegel

Catherine Allen, MD, ex-officio

John S. Edwards, ex-officio

Craig Sickler, ex-officio

Margaretville Hospital Foundation Board

Robert J. Andersen, Chair

John L. Kelly, Vice Chair

Cynthia Clark, Secretary

Board Members

Emilie Adams, ex-officio

Frank Carbone

Beth Eckels

Joshua Ratner, ex-officio

Michelle Sidrane

Suzanne Sluiter

Chris Criswell

Westchester County Healthcare Corporation

Michael D. Israel, President and CEO

Zubeen Shroff, Chair

Mitchell C. Hochberg, First Vice Chair

Mark S. Tulis, Esq, Vice Chair and Treasurer

Susan G. Gevertz, Vice Chair

John F. Heimerdinger, Secretary

Board Members

William H. Frishman, MD

Renee E. Garrick, MD

Herman S. Geist

Michael D. Israel

Patrick McCoy

Tracey Mitchell

Alfredo S. Quintero

Martin Rogowsky

Michael N. Rosenblut

Judith Watson, RN

Richard G. Wishnie

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Art Auction

Lot 1

Golden Hour

Artist: Patrice Lorenz

24” x 24”

Oil on Board, 2022

Value: $1,000 • Starting Bid: $700

Artist bio: Lorenz is a draughtsman at heart who studied printmaking at the NY State University College at Brockport and received her MA in Painting from Albany State University. In 2005, she co-founded the LONGYEAR Gallery, a cooperative gallery in Margaretville. In 2017, she co-founded ADHOC Projects, an Artist’s collective that curates thematic pop-up exhibits online and in underutilized spaces.

Lot 2

Slide

Artist: Holly Cohen

24” x 16”

Photograph, 2022

Value: $400 • Starting Bid: $200

Artist bio: Cohen’s greatest inspiration is her love of animals and the natural world. Through photography, she shares her innate artistry and vision of the world. She created Golightly Ink in 2021.

Lot 3

Surveillance

Artist: Michael Reichman

16” x 20”

Acrylic on Canvas, 2021

Value: $600 • Starting Bid: $300

Artist bio: Reichman is a self-taught painter who grew up in NYC in a home clouded by addiction and mental illness. After a long recovery for himself, he developed a steadfast love for art. Evident in his extensive body of work are Reichman’s struggles and successes.

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Lot 4

Summer (Blue Corsage)

Artist: Melanie Greene

Donated by: Suzanne Greene

30” x 20”

Silkscreen Print, 1979

Value: $900 • Starting Bid: $500

Artist bio: Greene’s parents owned a flower shop in Fleischmanns, where they grew sweet peas, the primary subject matter in Greene’s watercolors and still life settings. She showed at the Catherine Martell Gallery in New York City.

Lot 5

Catbird

Artist: John Curtis

9” x 12”

Watercolor, 2023

Value: $350 • Starting Bid: $200

Artist bio: Living and working in New York City, Curtis works with traditional watercolor and drawing materials. His work focuses on the ephemeral and enigmatic presentations of timeless landscapes, people and places.

Lot 6

October

Artist: Polly M. Law

14” x 11”

Monoprint Collage, 2023

Value: $900 • Starting Bid: $450

Artist bio: Law is a bricoleur, mythologenist and printmaker living and working in the Rondout Valley of New York State. Her work techniques range from paste-paint cut-paper collages to monoprints, lino-cut, silkscreen prints and bricolage pieces. Her themes include narrative, myth, nature and sometimes, a powerful eye.

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Lot 7

December Sunflowers

Artist: Gary Mayer

30” x 48”

Acrylic on Canvas, 2022

Value: $1,000 • Starting Bid: $500

Artist bio: Mayer comes from a family of artists originally from Detroit. He exhibited widely in Detroit and New York City where he lived for 22 years. After moving to the Catskills in 2004, he featured his work in numerous shows at LONGYEAR Gallery in Margaretville and at Greenkill in Kingston. Recently, Mayer started a gallery with Patrice Lorenz and Ted Hannan called ArtUp in Margaretville.

Lot 8

Central Park Gothic

Artist: Michael Linehan

24” x 24”

Photograph, c. 2000

Value: $1,600 • Starting Bid: $700

Artist bio: Linehan is a licensed architect, practicing in Baltimore, MD, for over 50 years. Fine art photography is his current focus, working primarily with a large format camera to explore how the change of scale impacts perception.

Lot 9

Red Tide

Artist: Ted Sheridan

20” x 16”

Oil and Lacquered Paper on Panel, 2024

Value: $600 • Starting Bid: $250

Artist bio: Sheridan is an artist and architect at the office of Ryall Sheridan Carroll Architects in New York City. An instrument maker and musician, he has instructed courses on architectural acoustics and the physics of musical instruments at the Parsons School of Design in New York and has lectured widely on the subject. His visual art combines drawing, collage, painting and the processes of corrosion.

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Lot 10

By the Sea

Artist: Moshe Rosenthalis

Donated by: Avi Rosentalis

13” x 16”

Oil on Canvas, 1988-1992

Value: $6,000 • Starting Bid: $950

Artist bio: Rosenthalis (1922-2008) was a Lithuanian-Israeli painter and art teacher. As a young artist in Lithuania, he adopted the dominant Socialist Realism discipline. After his immigration to Israel in 1958, he implemented various methods, including Abstract, Fauvism, Figurative, Expressionism and diverse media and bases. His paintings were characterized by vivid colors and joie de vivre, drawing inspiration from the Israeli landscapes, images and people.

Lot 11

Bushkill Stream, Arkville

Artist: Michelle Sidrane

20” x 16”

Pastel, 2022

Value: $550 • Starting Bid: $300

Artist bio: Sidrane has been painting in earnest for the last several years, taking classes at Brooklyn Botanic Gardens and Woodstock School of Art. Inspired by the beauty of nature, her paintings include landscapes and portraits of vegetables grown in her garden. Sidrane paints with the East Branch Delaware River Plein Air Painters and her work has been displayed at galleries throughout the Catskills. She and her husband, Alan, are the proprietors of Breezy Hill Inn in Fleischmanns.

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Lot 12

Abstraction

Artist: Arne Haugen Sørensen

Donated by: Mike Moriarty

16” x 20”

Etching, 1961

Value: $1,600 • Starting Bid: $800

Artist bio: Sørensen is a Danish painter and illustrator. Since the 1980s, he has become one of Denmark’s most productive religious artists, decorating more than 25 churches with forceful, provocative works in a variety of art forms including painting, frescos, stained glass, ceramics and sculpture. Lot 10

Lot 13

Stamped

Artist: Robin Factor

20” x 13”

Mixed Media, 2022

Value: $925 • Starting Bid: $500

Artist bio: “I love the thrill of creating and maybe tellingly, creating my own environments with total autonomy. How can the characters in my universe become more than their parts and take on meaning to transcend their object-ness?”

Lot 14

Wranovic’s Barn, Halcottsville, NY

Artist: Ellen Wong

16” x 37”

Oil on Canvas, 2000

Value: $1,200 • Starting Bid: $600

Artist bio: Wong enjoys a 25-year love affair with painting the Catskill landscape. To Wong, nature’s beauty is unrivaled, an infinite palette of hues and values, and it is always being transformed, changing moment to moment, day to day and season to season.

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Lot 15

Three Turns

Artist: Amy Masters

14” x 11”

Etching, 2017

Value: $800 • Starting Bid: $400

Artist bio: Masters lives and works in New York City and the Catskills where she has her studio. She is a painter, printmaker and teacher. Her visual work often references her natural surroundings both inside and out. She exhibits widely, including New York City, Los Angeles, Maine and upstate New York. She is a founding member of ADHOC Collective, a group of local artists re-envisioning the way artists think about and share work with the community.

Lot 16

Love Bite

Artist: Roberto Dutesco

11” x 14”

Handmade Black and White Silver Gelatin Print, 1994

Value: $4,000 • Starting Bid: $2,000

Artist bio: Dutesco is a Canadian-born Romanian artist who is best known for his photography projects that meld personal interest with environmental and natural subject matter. In his longest-running series, the artist documents the feral horses in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Lot 17

GRATTITUDE

Artist: Peter Tunney

28” x 40”

Archival Inkjet Print on Textured Paper, 2022

Value: $3,250 • Starting Bid: $1,500

Artist bio: Tunney is a legitimate force of nature with boundless creative energy, spreading his positive messages in unconventional ways. Working with language and text, he creates in almost every medium: paint, collage, wood, photography, found objects and discarded materials.

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Lot 18

Boundless Sky

Artist: Christie Scheele

20” x 30”

Oil on Linen, 2015

Value: $3,500 • Starting Bid: $1,000

Artist bio: “My version of minimalism is about shape and atmospherics. I paint not just the light but the air itself and how these affect the edges and colors of the scenes depicted.”

Lot 19

Anemones

Artist: Emilie Adams

10” x 14”

Watercolor and Ink on Cotton Cold Pressed Paper, 2024

Value: $360 • Starting Bid: $150

Artist bio: Adams is a New Kingston resident and watercolor artist. This is her fourth year donating to the Margaretville Hospital Art Auction. Emilie also serves on both the Margaretville Hospital Corporate Board and the Foundation Board.

Lot 20

Belle Terre

Artist: Hunt Slonem

10” x 8”

Oil on Wood, 2013

Value: $6,500 • Starting Bid: $4,500

Artist bio: Slonem is a renowned neoexpressionist best known for his series of bunnies, butterflies and tropical birds, as well as his large-scale sculptures and restorations of forgotten historic homes. Slonem’s works can be found in the permanent collections of 250 museums around the world, including the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Whitney, the Miro Foundation and the New Orleans Museum of Art.

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Lot 21

DRINK UP

Artist: Beth Caspar

24” x 24”

Spray Paint and Acrylic on Panel, 2022

Value: $1,800 • Starting Bid: $700

Artist bio: Caspar’s work explores pattern — informed by music, dance and mathematical concepts and shape, derived from simple planar geometry, chance and most recently, the alphabet.

Lot 22

If Nothing Else Be Misled

Artist: Karim Ghidinelli

48” x 32”

Oil on Aluminum, 2024

Value: $10,500 • Starting Bid: $5,000

Artist bio: Ghidinelli creates richly layered abstract paintings using unconventional materials, such as lace and mirrors, to examine the multifaceted nature of identity. He grew up between Italy, Guinea-Bissau, Ethiopia, England and the US, and his multimedia work reflects this multicultural upbringing, exploring themes of passages, journeys and travel. He received a BFA and MFA in painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design.

Lot 23

Hearts and Flowers (Black and Blue)

Artist: Melanie Greene

Donated by: Suzanne Greene

12” x 8”

Watercolor on Parchment, 1976

Value: $800 • Starting Bid: $400

Artist bio: Greene’s parents owned a flower shop in Fleischmanns, where they grew sweet peas, the primary subject matter in Greene’s watercolors and still life settings. She showed at the Catherine Martell Gallery in New York City.

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Lot 24

Garden Series I

Artist: Judy Howie Coury

48” x 24”

Oil on Canvas, 2022

Value: $3,000 • Starting Bid: $950

Artist bio: “I have always been interested in art and painting. Very early in my career I taught art at the grammar school level but returned for a degree in medical illustration. 20 years in the corporate world, I retired and art has become my full-time passion.”

Lot 25

Garden Series II

Artist: Judy Howie Coury

48” x 24”

Oil on Canvas, 2022

Value: $3,000 • Starting Bid: $950

Artist bio: See Lot 24.

Lot 26

9th-Bedford. Three Guys

Artist: Lisbeth Firmin

30” x 20”

Monoprint, 2016

Value: $1,400 • Starting Bid: $400

Artist bio: Firmin is a contemporary American realist whose imagery explores the relationship between people and their environment — depicting modern life while exploring timeless themes of solitude and isolation.

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Lot 27

Tulips

Artist: Michael Linehan

24” x 24”

Photograph, c. 2000

Value: $1,600 • Starting Bid: $700

Artist bio: Linehan is a licensed architect, practicing in Baltimore, MD, for over 50 years. Fine art photography is his current focus, working primarily with a large-format camera to explore how the change of scale impacts perception.

Lot 28

Graffiti Dog

Artist: Peter Mayer

16” x 20”

Acrylic on Canvas, 2024

Value: $3,500 • Starting Bid: $950

Artist bio: Mayer is a renowned graffiti artist and painter. He is a founding member of the Andes Academy of Art and teaches drawing every Monday from 10pm to midnight on his WIOX radio show, Graffiti Dog Super Art Now.

Lot 29

Crow

Artist: Steve Burnett

12” x 16”

Watercolor on Parchment, 2018

Value: $800 • Starting Bid: $400

Artist bio: In addition to being a very talented artist, Burnett and his wife, Kristie, run a beautiful farm in Bovina, New York. He is currently drawing from his farm experiences and from the stories his grandparents shared with him about being immigrant farmers in Iowa.

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Lot 30

Siblings 2-1

Artist: Stuart Bigley

Donated by: BJ Milner

36” x 24”

Acrylic on Canvas, 2019

Value: $3,500 • Starting Bid: $950

Artist bio: Bigley is an artist based in New York’s beautiful Hudson Valley. He has been making and showing his artwork for over 45 years. During this time, he also co-founded and ran the Unison Arts Center in New Paltz, NY. He is a multi-disciplinary artist focusing on painting, drawing and photography.

Lot 31

Siblings 2-2

Artist: Stuart Bigley

Donated by: BJ Milner

36” x 24”

Acrylic on Canvas, 2019

Value: $3,500 • Starting Bid: $950

Artist bio: See Lot 30.

Lot 32 Study

Artist: Cyrus Henry Wagner

Donated by: B. Lancaster

18” x 26”

Acrylic on Paper, 2002

Value: $2,000 • Starting Bid: $950

Artist bio: Wagner (1926-2016) worked as a career architect and urban planner in San Antonio, TX, and Washington, DC, and taught architecture and basic design at the University of Texas in Austin and Cornell University. In tandem with his career, he was a passionate draughtsman and painter, exploring various artistic subjects and styles, ranging from Pop Art to Geometric Abstraction.

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Lot 33

Untitled

Artist: Stephen Pace

Donated by: C. Johansen

14” x 21”

Watercolor on Paper, 1969

Value: $2,200 • Starting Bid: $950

Artist bio: Pace (1918-2010) honed his skills while serving as an Army artist in England and France during World War II and upon his return became an influential member of the Abstract Expressionist movement. In the mid1960s, Pace returned to figurative painting in a style characterized by simplified forms, broad brushwork and imaginative colors.

Lot 34

Stars 6

Artist: Bea Ortiz

12” x 12”

Plaster, Gold Leaf, Wax & Varnish on Wood Panel, 2023

Value: $840 • Starting Bid: $700

Artist bio: Ortiz is a Spanish American artist who moved to New York City in 1998 where she maintained an international career as a decorative painter and muralist. She taught art for non-profit organizations in schools and nursing home facilities, and produced multi-disciplinary performances in New York City and Madrid. In 2018, she relocated to the Catskills and returned to a full-time art making practice following a life-changing illness.

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Lot 35

Boat

Artist: Christopher Moore

17” x 22”

Photograph, 2023

Value: $300 • Starting Bid: $150

Artist bio: Moore earned his BFA in Photography at Pratt Institute. He has been a photographer since 1962.

Lot 36

Kaaterskill Falls

Artist: Steven Weinberg

17” x 11”

Print on Archival Paper of Watercolor on Paper, 2018

Value: $100 • Starting Bid: $50

Artist bio: Weinberg writes, illustrates and makes art all about color! He has written and/or illustrated 15 books for kids about everything from backpacking in Timbuktu to all your favorite home appliances. He paints Catskills mountains and fish in art that has been featured in museums, galleries, book covers, magazines, hotels and beer cans. With his wife, Casey Scieszka, he owns and operates the Spruceton Inn, a Catskills Bed and Bar. Their annual Artist Residency has hosted more than 100 artists.

Lot 37

2023 Brookies

Artist: Steven Weinberg

17” x 11”

Print on Archival Paper of Watercolor on Paper, 2018

Value: $100 • Starting Bid: $50

Artist bio: See Lot 36.

Lot 38

Fly Fishing Flies of the Catskills

Artist: Steven Weinberg

17” x 11”

Print on Archival Paper of Watercolor on Paper, 2018

Value: $100 • Starting Bid: $50

Artist bio: See Lot 36.

Lot 39

Earring

Artist: Ann Greene Kelly

11” x 10”

Laser Copy, 2013

Value: $260 • Starting Bid: $100

Artist bio: Kelly engages materials and subjects sourced from her immediate surroundings. She combines everyday objects, such as bricks, baskets and tires, with personal items, including clothing and used food containers. Within her porous compositions, Kelly merges traces of the body with its built environment and the real with the imagined.

Lot 40

Evening

Artist: William Duke

10” x 8”

Oil on Canvas, 2024

Value: $350 • Starting Bid: $100

Artist bio: Duke is a poet, painter and radio host on WIOX Community Radio. He is a founding member of the Andes Academy of Art.t 3

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Lot 41

Secret Histories Mumbai

Artist: Jack Richardson 17” x 11”

Print of Illustration, 2024

Value: $250 • Starting Bid: $100

Artist bio: Richardson is a New Kingston and New York City-based freelance illustrator. Clients include The New York Times, Apple, The Wall Street Journal, The Telegraph, Barron’s, The Boston Globe, LA Times, Creative Review, The Economist, Politico, Entertainment Weekly, Consumer Reports, Hollywood Reporter, Mr Porter, Outside, Der Spiegel, Capital, Die Zeit and Soho House.

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Lot 42

Afternoon at Lake Wawaka, Halcottsville, NY

Artist: Chris Criswell 11” x 14”

Oil on Canvas

Value: $350 • Starting Bid: $175

Artist bio: “My first memory of my mother was as a two-year-old who climbed up on a chair to watch her paint a deer jumping out of a clump of brush. That experience sparked a life-long fascination with the interplay of colors, shapes and textures that we see in human and natural forms everywhere. My formal art education began years later with plein air painting in Central Park and night classes at the Art Students League. Now that I’ve retired from the distractions of corporate finance, I’m enjoying the opportunity to focus more time on art in the Catskills.”

Lot 43

Sap Bucket

Artist: Karen LaFever

Donated by: Dave Rama 13” x 12”

Handpainted Metal Bucket

Value: $250 • Starting Bid: $100

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Lot 44

‘Golden Love’ Poster

Artist: Robert Indiana

Donated by: BJ Milner

40” x 30”

Silkscreen, 1973

Value: $350 • Starting Bid: $175

Artist bio: One of the preeminent figures in American art since the 1960s, Indiana (1928-2018) played a central role in the development of assemblage art, hard-edge painting and Pop Art. A self-proclaimed “American painter of signs,” he created a highly original body of work that explores American identity, personal history and the power of abstraction and language.

Lot 45

Joyful Flowers

Artist: Sally De Poala

17” x 11”

Watercolor

Value: $2,500 • Starting Bid: $250

Artist bio: A new watercolor artist infuses her painting with playful charm and vibrant colors aiming to spark joy! Sally is a retired elementary school teacher and lives in Saugerties with her husband, Steve. They have three adult children.

Lot 46

River Flow

Artist: Faye Storms

12” x 23”

Pastel on Board

Value: $300 • Starting Bid: $150

Artist bio: Storms received her degrees from FIT and opened The Blue Barn Antiques & Marketplace in Shandaken in 1979. She has enjoyed careers as an antique dealer, furniture designer, real estate broker and most recently returned to her first love and career as an artist.

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Lot 47

New York City

Artist: David Finley

Donated by: David Sheppard

5” x 7” in 14” x 11” frame

Etching, 1999

Value: $300 • Starting Bid: $150

Artist bio: Local artist Finley was an Emmynominated lighting and set designer. His long career includes working with the Martha Graham Dance Company, Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre, Stars on Ice and Disson Skating.

Lot 48

Ode to Barefoot Prodigy

Artist: R. Purcell

Donated by: Colleen Martin

16” x 20”

Oil on Panel, 1965

Value: $300 • Starting Bid: $150

Artist bio: Purcell's art is inspired by the work of Martha Moore.

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