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Items
Unable to attend this year's party,
yet eager to bid on the many wonderful tour and tickets, antiques
and artifacts up for auction? Have an HDC staff member represent
you in your absence! Take a look at the list of items below and
make us an offer! Be sure to keep checking back, as the list is
updated daily.
To place an absentee bid or rsvp
to the auction itself, please email kmorith@hdc.org.
Be sure to provide your name, contact information, the number(s)
of the items you wish to bid on and your maximum bid for each. Please
note that all bids are final.
1: Green-Wood Cemetery tour
package! Donated by the Green-Wood Cemetery
Six tickets to a public tour around beautiful historic Green-Wood
Cemetery led by Jeffrey Richman, the cemetery’s official historian.
The package is accompanied by a collection of related publications,
including: Buchery
on Bond Street, Benjamin Feldman; Horace
Greeley: Champion of American Freedom, Robert C. Williams;
Baseball
Legends of Brooklyn's Greenwood Cemetery, Peter J. Nash;
Brooklyn's
Greenwood Cemetery, Jeffrey I. Richman. Estimated Value:
$200
2: Horticultural Consultation.
Donated by Dr. Duncan Himmelman
Includes a two-hour private horticultural consultation with Dr.
Duncan Himmelman, an instructor at the NY Botanical Garden with
an advanced degree in urban horticulture from Cornell. Estimated
Value: $200
3: Portion of an antique iron
gate. Donated by Helen Kornblau
A perfect item for any iron enthusiast, this piece once belonged
to the exterior of a historic New York City building. Suitable for
your garden or house! Estimated Value: $500
4: Framed Brooklyn Heights
Photograph by Anne Walker Gaffney. Donated by Ann Walker
Gaffney.
Framed and matted original photograph by Ann Walker Gaffney. Estimated
value: $250
5: Carnegie Hall Tickets Donated
by Carnegie Hall
A pair of tickets to the Wednesday, June 11th, 8pm performance of
the New York Philharmonic: The Ring Without Words: Orchestral Highlights
from The Ring Cycle. This performance features Lorin Maazel conducting
selections from Wagner’s The Ring Cycle as part of the Great
American Orchestras Series. Estimated value: $100
6: Terra-Cotta Books.
Donated by Susan Tunick. A variety of fascinating and beautiful
books on Terra Cotta - its history and its use in architecture around
the world. Including, TWO books autographed by the authors! Susan's
Tunick's "Terra-Cotta Skyline" and "Paris and the
Legacy of French Archiectural Ceramics", autographed by Susan
Tunick and Susan J. Montomery. Estimated Value: $200.
7: “Puddle,” Original Painting by Nicholas Evans-Cato!
Donated by Nicholas Evans-Cato. This painting was painted in the Highbridge
section of the Bronx. One can make out the reflections of the Washington
Bridge on the left, and a ramp of the Major Deegan Expressway overhead
on the right. The artist says “I was initially attracted to
the Harlem River Valley as it was a favorite subject of some of the
Ashcan School painters, like Ernest Lawson, in the 19th and early
20th Century.” Evans-Cato resides in Brooklyn and in May 2008
will have a solo show at the George Billis Gallery in Chelsea. Framed,
9" x 11". Estimated Value: $1000
8:Behind the Scenes of New
York's Historic Houses! Donated by Alice Austen House Museum,
Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, Merchant's House Museum, Morris-Jumel
Mansion Museum, and King Manor Museum. A private behind-the-scenes
tour for four (4) of noted historic houses throughout New York City
led by museum staff. This is a rare opportunity to see spaces not
generally seen by the public and hear the exciting history of the
homes and their inhabitants. Exact timing of tours is subject to
museum staff’s availability. All houses do not have to be
toured on the same date. Tours must be claimed within one year.
Estimated Value: $750
9: Inside the Greenwich Village
Historic District! Donated by the Greenwich Village Society
for Preservation
The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation’s
Annual House Tour allows two (2) guests to go inside a selection
of private homes within the Greenwich Village Historic Districts.
Estimated Value: $300
10: Explore Brooklyn! Donated
by the Fort Greene Association & Crown Heights North Association.
Four (4) tickets to the Fort Greene and Crown Heights North self-guided
house tours, which visit a variety of exciting interiors, from restored
brownstones to the latest contemporary design. The tours take place
on Sunday, May 4 and on an October date to be determined, respectively.
The winner may also attend a private after party following the Fort
Greene Tour. Estimated Value: $200
11: Annual Brooklyn Heights
House Tour! Donated by the Brooklyn Heights Association
Two (2) tickets to the Brooklyn Heights Association’s Annual
House Tour on Saturday, May 12th. Tour includes tea and homemade
cookies in the Plymouth Church garden. Estimated Value: $60
12: "Redhook Barge, NYC",
2006, original oil painting by T. Kelly Wilson! Donated by the artist.
His paintings and drawings are made on site and achieved within
a single outing. Mr. Wilson says that his work is meant to "evoke
the nature of place, both urban and rural yet he is less concerned
with the representation, or verisimilitude, than with the opportunities
created by transient effects of light and atmosphere that make it
possible to invent pictorial space, to suggest pictorial meaning."
Mr. Wilson is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Harvard Graduate
School of Design. His work is in the collections of The Boston Public
Library, Ralph Lauren Collection, and many corporate and private
collections. His architectural drawings are widely published. Unframed,
20" x 24". Estimated Value: $2400.
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