The American Folk Art Museum is grateful to the following friends who provided generous support between July 1, 2009, and December 31, 2010:
$50,000 & Up Allan Katz Americana/Penny & Allan Katz / Lawrence B. Benenson / Edward V. Blanchard Jr. / Barry D. Briskin / Stephen Corelli / Joyce B. Cowin / Louise & Edgar M. Cullman / Kendra & Allan Daniel / Lucy & Frederick M. Danziger / Deutsche Bank / Jacqueline Fowler / Audrey B. Heckler / Henry Luce Foundation / Yaz & Valentín Hernández / Marjorie & Robert L. Hirschhorn / Joan M. & Victor L. Johnson / Just Folk-Marcy Carsey/Susan Baerwald / Leir Charitable Foundations in memory of Henry J. & Erna D. Leir / Petra & Stephen A. Levin / Estate of Marian Naumburg / New York City Department of Cultural Affairs / Laura & Richard Parsons / Joanna S. & Daniel Rose / Donna & Marvin Schwartz / Bonnie & Thomas W. Strauss / Elizabeth V. & Irwin H. Warren
$20,000-$49,999 Edith S. Briskin / Arpad Busson / Chubb & Son / Citi / Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP / David L. Davies & Jack Weeden / Edens & Avant Investments LP / Edith & Herbert Lehman Foundation / The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. / Katherine Farley & Jerry Speyer / Sir Evelyn & Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild / Agnes Gund / Luise & Robert Kleinberg / Phyllis L. Kossoff / Latifa Kosta / Jerry Lauren / Frances Sirota Martinson / Connie & Andrew A. McElwee Jr. / New York State Council on the Arts / Susan & Donald Newhouse / Agnes Nixon / The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation / Leo Rabkin / Kathleen & John Ullmann / Barbara & L. John Wilkerson / Anne & Robert N. Wilson
$10,000-$19,999 Allen & Overy / American Express / American Folk Art Society / The Bank of New York Mellon / Bingham McCutchen LLP / Bloomberg / Bloomingdale's Fund of the Macy's Foundation / Citigroup Global Markets / Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton / Credit Suisse / Raffaella & Alberto Cribiore / Susan R. Cullman & John J. Kirby / Peggy & Dick Danziger / Vivian Donnelley / Betsey & Sam Farber / Gigi & M. Shafik Gabr / Patricia Geoghegan / Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP / Greenberg Traurig / Ellen E. Howe / Ned Jalbert / Kekst and Company Incorporated / Leigh Keno / Kx Systems, Inc. / Taryn & Mark Leavitt / Dorothy Lichtenstein / Wendy & Barry Meyer / Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP / Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP / Piper Jaffray / Rapaport Family Charitable Trust / Angela & Selig Sacks / Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP / Time Warner Inc. / Terrence Turner / Richard H. Walker / Sue Ann Weinberg / White & Case LLP
$5,000-$9,999 Munirah Alatas / Becky & Bob Alexander / Judy & John Angelo / Avenue of the Americas Association / Benetton Group US / Barbara & James A. Block / Sandi Bria / Yolanda & Alvin Brown / Henry M. Buhl / Barbara Bundy / Christie's / Ellen & Win Churchill / Abigail Congdon & Joseph Azrack / Ellie & Edgar Cullman Jr. / Terry L. Dale & Richard Barry / Patricia Deans / Gloria Einbender / Margot & John L. Ernst / Marilyn Friedman & Thomas Block / Robert Froelich / Rebecca & Michael S. Gamzon / Sherry Hayslip & Cole Smith / John R. & Dorothy D. Caples Fund / Kristina Johnson / Eleanora & Michael J. Kennedy / Drs. Nancy Kollisch & Jeffrey H. Pressman / Barbara & David Krashes / Jo Carole & Ronald S. Lauder / Betty & John Levin / Levin Capital Strategies / Anne & Vincent Mai / MetLife / Kay & George H. Meyer / The Overbrook Foundation / Peter J. Solomon Company / Peter J. Solomon Family Foundation / Barbara J. Riley / David Rockefeller / Scott Sanders / Kristy & Steve M. Scott / Sotheby's / Marisela & Cary Staller / Ellen & David Stein / Joan F. Tobin / Xerox Foundation
$2,000-$4,999 Joseph H. Allerhand / Didi & David Barrett / Kim & Stephen Bepler / Joan & Robert A. Bernhard / George Bissell Jr. / Adele Block / Berry Bloomingdale & Stephen Keller / Justine & Robert R. Bloomingdale / The Bonnie Cashin Fund / Jill & Sheldon Bonovitz / Marilyn W. Bottjer / Richard Braemer / Judy & Bernard Briskin / Laurie Krasny Brown & Marc Brown / Mario Buatta / Marjorie B. Buckley / Carolyn Chen / Lisa Cholnoky & Richard Levine / Peyton Cochran / Phyllis D. Collins / Cullman & Kravis, Inc. / Judy & Aaron Daniels / Gary Davenport / Michaela & Joseph Deiss / Fiona & Stanley Druckenmiller / Joan & Robert J. Easton / The Echo Design Group, Inc. / Andrew Edlin / Judith & Anthony Evnin / Karin Fielding / Katherine Findlay / Amy Finkel / Margot & Norman Freedman / Gail Furman / Phebe & Louis Goodman / Barbara L. Gordon & W. Stephen Cannon / Chaz Guest / Addie J. Guttag / Olga & John Guttag / Ann & James Harithas / Marian Heiskell / The Helping Hand / Catherine & Richard Herbst / Karen & Ronald J. Herrmann / Hines Interests / Alexander Hitz / Glenn Horowitz / Barbara & Thomas C. Israel / Virginia Joffe / Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, Inc. / Jaclyn & Gerald Kaminsky / Mariana & George Kaufman / Diane Keefe & John Levin / Helen & Steven Kellogg / Elizabeth & John Kingman / Lesley & John Koegel Esq. / Joyce Lacerte / Joyce and Edward Linde / Yvonne Liu / Cheryl & Ricardo Longoria / Charlene Marsh / Myron L. Mayer / Gillian McCain / Kathleen McGivney / Diahn & Tom McGrath / Andrew McMaster / Barbara & R. Alan Medaugh / Pamela & Michael A. Miles / Amy Munday / Cynthia & Donald B. Murphy / Jennifer Nelson / Emily Anne Nixon / Pam Nurenberg / Nancy & Morris Offit / Stephanie & Robert M. Olmsted / Patricia Parsons / Suzanne & Michael Payne / Anthony J. Petullo / Jonelle Procope / Roberta & Jack Rabin / Ricco/Maresca Gallery / Dr. Roger & Mrs. Alyce Rose / Sheila & Joseph B. Rosenblatt / Toni Lynn Ross / Richard Rubenstein / Patrica & Juan Ruiz-Healy / Jeanne & Robert Savitt / Linda & Donald Schapiro / Jean & Martin Shafiroff / Ann G. & Peter L. Sheldon / June & Ronald K. Shelp / Anne Sides / Mary Ann & Arthur Siskind / Skinner, Inc. / Jennifer & Jonathan Allan Soros / Su-Ellyn Stern & Andrew McMaster / Rachel & Donald Strauber / Dr. R. David Sudarsky & Frank Tosto / Taura Flynn & Associates LLC / David Teiger / Jayne & James Thompson / Ian Tobin / Lisa Tung & Spencer Glendon / Bonnie Turner / Jacqui Weld & Rodman Drake / Phyllis & Ira Wender / Barbara & Gerard C. Wertkin / Kelly M. Williams & Andrew Forsyth / Sarah & Louis S. Wolfe / Women's Caucus for Art / Rebecca & Jon N. Zoler / 3 Anonymous Donors
$1,000-$1,999 Margaret Ajemian Ahnert / Jody & John Arnhold / Nan Bases / Anne H. Bass / Tania Batley / Mary F. Beck / Benenson Capital Partners LLC / Susan & Jonathan Berg / Polly Bloomingdale / Virgina & Dan W. Boone III / Michael O. Braun / Roberto Camacho / Sharon Casdin / Beth Cathers & Jim McCounel / Cirque-tacular Entertainment / Claudia Cisneros / Jane Bloomingdale Cisneros / Angela & James Clair / DuPre & Moffett Cochran / Ben Cohen / Antonia G. Colon / Lewis B. Cullman / Alex Daniels / Sheena & David Danziger / Bette J. Davis & James Asselstine / Joan F. DeCoste / Doyle New York / Nancy & Michael Druckman / Larry E. Dumont / Shirley Durst / Kenneth Edlow / Elizabeth H. Eisen / Eva & Morris Feld Fund / Bobbie & Robert Falk / Jeanne Donovan Fisher / Susan & Henry Fradkin / Joan & Michael Frankel / Emily Frick / Irene & Richard Gachot / Jill Gallagher / Gallery Systems, Inc. / Arlyn & Edward Gardner / Alice & Bruce Geismar / Barbara Gimbel / Barbara & Peter Goodman / Tracy Goodnow / Ellin & Baron J. Gordon / Joan & Donald J. Gordon / Gail Gregg / Henry E. Grimball Jr. / Vicki & Michael Gross / Michael Guttag / David Henderson / Samuel Herrup / Jonathan Hess / Peggy & Tom Hess / Pamela & Timothy Hill / Lesley & Joseph C. Hoopes / Kip Horsburgh / Thomas Isenberg / Paige & Todd M. Johnson / Penelope Johnston-Foote & Ray Foote / Jennifer Kalter / Keno Auctions / Carol A. Keyser / Jeffrey Klein / Stephanie & Ron Kramer / Nancy Lassalle / Michelle & Lawrence J. Lasser / Marta Jo Lawrence / Carol Sutton Lewis & William M. Lewis Jr. / Judith Lile / Susan & Martin Lipton / Jeanette Longoria / Frank Maresca / Marstrand Foundation / Russell Martin Jr. / Anne W. Miller / Virginia J. Mitchell / Barbara & Merrill Mulch / Deborah Neff / Loretta & Carl Neuman / Jeanette & Carl Nostra / Kevin O'Callaghan / Abby & George D. O'Neill / Liz & Jeff Peek / Ruth & Leonard Perfido / Christen & Duncan Pollock / Prestel Publishing / Michael J. Principe / Gertrude A. Quinn / Elizabeth Rad / Lisa & Gregg Rechler / Marguerite & Arthur Riordan / Patti & Michael Roberts / Helene & Jim Rosenthal / Marjorie P. Rosenthal / Hilary & Wilbur Ross / Evelyn & Robert Rothbard / Susan & Kenneth Sankin / Nancy & Charles Schaeffer / Anne & Alan Schnitzer / Sheila & Richard Schwartz / Albert E. Segall / Ellen & Joel Shapiro / Jean & Frederic Sharf / José Solís Betancourt & Paul Sherrill / Anita Grossman Solomon / Mary Solomon / Richard Soloway / Peter J. Sonnabend / Elizabeth A. Stern / Kathleen & Michael Stringer / Gary R. Sullivan / Nonie & John Sullivan / Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects LLP / Melissa & Gerald Uram / Siri von Reis / Naomi F. Waletzky / Ettie Ward / Joan Waricha / Jane & Floyd Warren / George Wein / Alan Weinschel / Giulia & Marc Weisman / Victoria Westhead / Rabbi David Whiman & Larry Whiman / Tracy & Marc Whitehead / Linda Wick / William Raveis Real Estate, Mortgage & Insurance / Mr. & Mrs. Witmer / Michelle & Robert Wyles / Judy F. Zankel
$500-$999 David Allaway & Deborah S. Kolar / Caralee Allsworth / Peg Alston & Willis Burton / Jean & Christopher Angell / Noah Antieau / Molly F. Ashby & Gerald M. Lodge / Shirley Baerwald / Beggars Group USA / Elliot Bekowitz / Bell-Guilmet Associates / Claire B. & Lawrence A. Benenson / Diane & Ira Berger / Deborah Bergman / Max N. Berry / Lynn & Peter Bienstock / Helen L. Bing / Lenore & Stephen Blank / James Bloomingdale / Louis H. Blumengarten / Douglas Bordon / Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey S. Borer / Ronald Brickle / Lois P. Broder & Marvin Broder / Sally & Thatcher M. Brown III / Thomas Butterfield / Paul Cantelon / Gina Cedrone / Sherryl & Gerard Cohen / Brad Coleman / Maria Ann Conelli & Kim J. Hartswick / Susan Danilow / Darien Community Association, Inc. / Thomas Demarco / Ginger H. & Henry Richard Dietrich / Lynne Ditman & James Shure / Ralph H. Donnell / Deborah & Arnold Dunn / Sharon & Theodore Eisenstat / Elitzer Family Fund / Karen & Bruce Ellsweig / Stacey Facter / Ford Foundation / Karen & Jim Frank / Suzanne Frye / Galerie St. Etienne / Judy & Jules Garel / Lisa Goldberg / Laura & Mark Goldman / Mary & Harvey Goldschmid / Gomez Associates, Inc. / Connie & Leonard Goodman / Linda Gottleib / Alice & Peg Grady / Patrick Graham / Greg K. Kramer & Co. / Martyn Gregory / Lynne & Harold Handler / Halley Harrisburg & Michael Rosenfeld / Harvey Art & Antiques / Mark Hayden / Laima & John C. Hood / Joan & Bill Houck / Iris Hudson / Donna & Carroll Janis / Jeff R. Bridgman Antiques / Linda Johnson / Isobel Kahn / Cathy M. Kaplan / Steven Kasher / Susanne & Ralph Katz / Stephen Knollenberg / Ginger Komar / Toby & Paul Koren / Lucy & Joseph Landesberg / Wendy & Stephen Lash / Barbara M. & Edward J. Laux / Richard & Dennis Lebert / Allan Lenzner / Lorie C. & Charles J. Levy Jr. / Shirley Lindenbaum / Arthur Liverant / Cassandra Lozano / Susan Malone / Russ B. Mandor / Andrea & Sinclaire Marber / Mattsson-McHale Foundation / Nancy McCain / Sharon McCormick / T.M. McDonnell / Grete Meilman / Holly Merrill & Stephen Turco / Terri Moreland / Beth Goldberg Nash & Joshua Nash / Ruth K. Nelson / Marjorie & Leonard Nezin / Margaret & David Nichols / John Nicoletti / John Norwood / Katie & Donal C. O’Brien Jr. / Barbara & Roy Ostrom / David T. Owsley / Melinda Papp / Grace M. Parr / Cheryl Payne / Joan Pearlman / Nancy Pedot / Karin Eriksen Perez & Rolando Perez / Janet S. Petry / Andrew Porter / Mason Rader / Josephine D’Amato Richardson / Susan W. Robertson / John R. Robinson Esq. / Melissa Rohland / Lois & Richard Rosenthal / Robert A. Roth / Natalie & Robert H. Schaffer / Cynthia V.A. & Robert T. Schaffner / Tess & Thomas Schutte / Cipora & Philip Schwartz / Philippe Segalot / Carla Shere / Joanne & Fred Siegmund / Barbara & Arun Singh / Geri A. Skirkanich / Virginia Smith / Gary Snyder / Grace & Elliott Snyder / Stephanie & Richard L. Solar / Micki Beth Stiller / Elizabeth Stillinger / Aimee & Anne Swartz / TD Bank / Ida & Serge Liu Tismen / Isabel & Ruben Toledo / Jann Trefny / Dorothy C. Treisman / Michael A. Trese / Trotta-Bono / Helen S. Tucker / Susan Unterberg / Mary Valentine / P. Derek Van Zandt / Mary Ellen Vehlow & Stephen Hessler / Yvonne & Kurt Vogt / Jane & David Walentas / Linda & Leonard Walton / Janis & William M. Wetsman / Jan Whitlock / Alexa Winner / Anna Marie Witmer / Mary Zanganas / Malcah Zeldis
LEAVES and FLOWERS / Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) / Milwaukee / c. 1940s–1970s / clay and paint on clay / various dimensions / collection of Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz / photo by Gavin Ashworth IN THE WORLD (detail) / Consuelo “Chelo” González Amézcua (1903–1975) / Del Rio, Texas / 1962 / ballpoint pen on paper / 28 x 22 in. / American Folk Art Museum, Blanchard-Hill Collection, gift of M. Anne Hill and Edward V. Blanchard Jr., 1998.10.1 / photo by Gavin Ashworth
UNTITLED (detail) / Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) / Milwaukee / c. 1940s–mid-1950s / gelatin silver print / 10 x 8 in. / American Folk Art Museum, gift of Lewis and Jean Greenblatt, 2000.1.4 / photo by Gavin Ashworth
HARLEQUIN MEDALLION QUILT (detail) / artist unidentified / New England / 1800–1820 / glazed wool / 87 x 96 in. / American Folk Art Museum, gift of Cyril Irwin Nelson in loving memory of his grandparents John Williams and Sophie Anna Macy, 1984.33.1 / photo by Matt Hoebermann
STAR OF BETHLEHEM WITH SATELLITE STARS QUILT (detail) / artist unidentified / possibly Pennsylvania / 1930–1950 / cotton and blends / 81 1/4 x 81 in. / American Folk Art Museum, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick M. Danziger, 1985.4.1
VORTEX QUILT (detail) / artist unidentified / United States / 1890–1910 / pieced and appliquéd cotton / 82 x 80 in. / collection of Johanna S. Rose / photo by Gavin Ashworth
172 AT JENNIE RICHEE. STORM CONTINUES. LIGHTNING STRIKES SHELTER BUT NO ONE IS INJURED (detail) / Henry Darger (1892–1973) / Chicago / mid-twentieth century / watercolor, pencil, carbon tracing, and collage on pieced paper / 24 x 108 3/4 in. / American Folk Art Museum, anonymous gift in recognition of Sam Farber, 2004.1.1a / © Kiyoko Lerner / photo by Gavin Ashworth
PLAYING CARDS / Clementine Hunter (1886/87–1988) / Natchitoches, Louisiana / 1970 / oil on canvas board / 18 x 24 in. / American Folk Art Museum, gift of the Mildred Hart Bailey/Clementine Hunter Art Trust, 1996.1.2 / photo by Gavin Ashworth
KALEIDOSCOPIC XVI: MORE IS MORE (detail) / Paula Nadelstern (b. 1951) / Bronx, New York / dated 1996 / cottons and silk / 64 x 64 in. / American Folk Art Museum, gift of the artist, 2008.21.1 / photo by Karen Bell
BIRD OF PARADISE QUILT TOP (detail) / artist unidentified / vicinity of Albany, New York / (1858–1863) / cotton, wool, and silk with ink and silk embroidery / 84 1/2 x 69 5/8 in. / American Folk Art Museum, gift of the Trustees, 1979.7.1 / photo by Gavin Ashworth
UNTITLED #14A / Eugene Andolsek (1921–
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