Surely one of the most anticipated holiday events on
the Hamptons social calendar is the annual Parrish
Presents. This unique shopping extravaganza offers
something for everyone � and every purse. From
luxury designer handbags and one-of-a-kind
experiences to fabulous thrift shop finds from the
major estates of the rich and famous.
Parrish Presents, the Parrish Art Museum�s
popular Thanksgiving weekend sale, kicks off with a
Preview Cocktail Party for Benefactors, Patrons,
Sponsors, and Associates on Friday, November 26, 5
to 8 pm. The General Sale, which is open to the
public, will take place Saturday, November 27, from
11 am to 5 pm, and Sunday, November 28, from 11 am
to 4 pm. Co-chairs of Parrish Presents are John
Bjørnen and
Whitney Fairchild.
Parrish Presents features a Market, Gift Bazaar, and
Silent Auction. In addition, a book signing will
take place at the preview cocktail party. The
Market, which is housed in the Carroll Petrie Center
for Education, adjacent to the Museum, consists of
new and slightly used items including home
furnishings, antiques, jewelry, silver, fine linens,
china, fashion accessories, and much more.
Upon entering the Museum, guests will also have the
opportunity to view the stunning new exhibition
American Still Life: Treasures from the Parrish Art
Museum
which includes more than forty paintings,
sculptures, and works on paper dating from 1871 to
the present. American Still Life, the third
in a series of exhibitions drawn exclusively from
the Museum�s permanent collection, explores the many
ways in which generations of American artists have
approached the subject of still life painting. The
show was organized by Alicia Longwell, Lewis
B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator, Art and
Education. Featured in the show are
William Merritt Chase, Jane Freilicher, Fairfield Porter, Robert de Niro, Nell Blaine,
Roy Lichtenstein, Joe Zucker, Dan Rizzie, Larry
Rivers, Jane Wilson, Sheridan Lord
and Donald Sultan.
The exhibition also includes significant works by
Barbara Bloom, Warren Brandt, John Button, Nicolai
Cikovsky, Michael Combs, George Constant, Peter
Dayton, William Glackens, Robert Kulicke, Robert
Lazzarini, Li-lan, Sheridan Lord, Henry
Muhrman, Casimir Rutkowski, Raphael Soyer, Michelle
Stuart, William Aiken Walker and Fred Wilson.
The Gift Bazaar, located in the Museum�s concert
hall, will feature a wide range of luxury items from
such specialty merchants as Antique Rug Galleria,
Artikay Cashmere, The Bruce Murray Collection, LSC
Designs Fine & Estate Jewelry, Lynch�s
Garden
Center, Walker Antiques,
and Sacred Sweets.
The Silent Auction will include designer handbags,
Broadway packages, fashion show tickets, restaurant
gift certificates, and one-of-a-kind trips, to name
just of the few offerings. Bidding closes promptly
at 3 pm on Sunday, November 28.
One of the most popular highlights is the annual
book signing event featuring prominent
East End authors. This year�s book signing
event will include Duane Hampton (Mark
Hampton: An American Decorator) and Alicia
Longwell, the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief
Curator, Art and Education at the Parrish Art Museum
(First Impressions: Nineteenth-Century American
Master Prints and American Landscapes:
Treasures from the Parrish Art Museum). In
addition, pre-signed copies of Alexa
Hampton: The Language of Interior Design
by Alexa Hampton will be available.
The weekend schedule is as follows:
Preview Cocktail Party:
Market, Gift Bazaar, Silent Auction, and Book
Signing: Open for Benefactors ($1000 per person),
Patrons ($500), Sponsors ($250), Associates
(Nonmembers $175, Parrish Members $125) Friday,
November 26, from 5 to 8 pm.
General Sale:
Market, Gift Bazaar, and Silent Auction open to the
public Saturday, November 27, 11 am to 5 pm, Sunday,
November 28, 11 am to 4 pm. Admission for the
General Sale is $5 per person, free for Parrish
Members and children age 18 and under.
More information is available at
www.parrishart.org or by calling
631-283-2118, ext. 42.
Parrish Presents is made possible, in part, with
generous support from Prudential Douglas Elliman
Real Estate and through moving donations from B & N
Moving & Storage.
About the
Parrish
Art Museum
The
Parrish Art
Museum is an American art museum
located in Southampton, New
York. Founded in 1897, the
museum celebrates the artistic legacy of Long
Island�s East End, one of America�s most
vital creative centers. Since the mid 1950s the
Museum has grown from a small village art gallery
into an important art museum with a collection of
more than 2,600 works of art from the nineteenth
century to the present. It includes such
contemporary painters and sculptors as John
Chamberlain, Chuck Close, Eric Fischl, April Gornik,
Elizabeth Peyton, as well as such masters as Dan
Flavin, Roy Lichtenstein, Jackson Pollock, Lee
Krasner, and Willem de Kooning. The Parrish houses
among of the world�s most important collections of
works by the preeminent American Impressionist
William Merritt Chase and by the groundbreaking
post-war American realist painter Fairfield Porter.
A vital cultural resource serving a diverse
audience, the Parrish organizes and presents
changing exhibitions and offers a dynamic schedule
of creative and engaging public programs including
lectures, films, performances, concerts, and studio
classes for all ages. On July 19, 2010, the Parrish
broke ground on a new building designed by
internationally acclaimed architects Herzog & de
Meuron. The 34,500-square-foot facility will triple
the Museum�s current exhibition space and allow for
the simultaneous presentation of loan exhibitions
and installations drawn from the permanent
collection.