Major donor fête celebrates benefactors.
Ellen Libby and Buzz Heidt.
Photos by Glenn Bashaw
Museum director Erik Neil and his wife, artist Luisa Adelfio.
Rufus Parks, Betsy Hardy, and Chris and Bob Rowland.
Drs. M. Gary and Karen Karlowitz.
Steven and Alva Holland, and Staci and John Katsias.
On Sept. 13, the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk hosted its annual major donors dinner. Museum director Erik Neil and his wife, artist Luisa Adelfio, welcomed the event’s more than 320 guests after a cocktail hour in the Susan and David Goode Wing. The black-tie evening included dinner and a presentation by Neil focusing on the Chrysler’s prominence within the international museum community. Neil highlighted the success of the museum’s international loan program, noting a loan from the Musée d’Orsay in Paris of one of Claude Monet’s Haystacks currently on display through Jan. 8. Johannes Vermeer’s A Lady Writing, on loan from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., is also currently being exhibited. It will be on view until Dec. 18. Chrysler.org
Upcoming exhibitions at the Chrysler Museum:
“The Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec” An exhibition of posters and illustrations opens March 10, 2017.
“Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian: Infinite Possibility” An installation of the Iranian artist’s mirror sculptures and drawings opens March 16, 2017.
