New museum exhibit shows development of modern painting
The opening event for the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum’s latest exhibit, “Modern Masters From the Guggenheim Collection,” took place Thursday at The Venetian.
The exhibit showcases 37 masterpieces from the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York that highlight key moments in the development of modern painting, from the 1870s through the first few decades of the 20th century. It will run through April 27.
The show is divided into four thematic sections: portraiture, landscape, still life and genre (everyday life) painting.
Among the painters represented in the exhibit are Paul Cezanne, Marc Chagall, Vasily Kandinsky, Fernand Leger, Piet Mondrian and Pablo Picasso.
Edouard Manet’s “Woman in Evening Dress,” Vincent van Gogh’s “Mountains at Saint-Remy,” Claude Monet’s “The Palazzo Ducale,” Amedeo Modigliani’s “Portrait of a Student,” and Max Beckmann’s “Paris Society” are but a few of the many recognizable paintings.
Elizabeth Herridge, managing director of the museum, spoke during the reception, thanking various organizations for their support.
Seen among the guests were Roger Thomas, Dorothy and Don Kemp, Angie Wallin and John Foley, Barbara and Bruce Woollen, Kristi Antunovich, Laurel Del Pozo, Kathleen Dalvey-Bonar, Beth McCall, Beverly and Mike Mykisen, Zoe Brown, Sid Graver, Jerry Hall, Caty Crockett, Dottie Burton, James Drewry, and Nicole and Jack Fisher. Herridge’s parents, Ruth and William Herridge of Toronto, also attended the event.
Anniversary surprise: Las Vegans Doree and George Dickerson, who met, courted and honeymooned in San Francisco during the 1940s, recently returned for granddaughter Kimberlee’s dental school graduation. However, their family had more in store, with a celebration of the couple’s 58th wedding anniversary and Doree’s July birthday.
As they disembarked from their plane, they saw a banner featuring their wedding picture and a current photo along with best wishes for their anniversary.
When the Dickersons married, they wanted to stay at the Mark Hopkins Hotel, but could not afford it. For this trip, the family arranged for a limo to take them to a suite at the famous hotel.
George Dickerson, son of former Gov. Denver Dickerson, met Doree in the Fielding Hotel’s Silver Dollar Bar in 1947. Doree had attended a University of Nevada football game in San Francisco, where George was going to Hastings Law School. The Fielding Hotel is now the Maxwell Hotel. Management there allowed the couple’s daughter, Diane Dickerson, to put up Fielding Hotel signs for a special luncheon.
On their first date, they ordered strawberry waffles, which Doree said she had to pay for because George didn’t have any money. On this trip, when they ordered room service’s strawberry waffles they were greeted at the door by George’s 86-year-old sister, Barbara Beatty, and her son, Don Beatty, dressed in room service attire. The tears flowed.
The weekend concluded with a private dinner celebration at Rue Lepic restaurant for 32 family members.
The couple’s other children include Bob and Bill Dickerson of Las Vegas.
International forum: The 2007 International Women’s Forum Global Cornerstone Conference, “Building Bridges — Breaking Walls,” took place recently in Amman, Jordan.
Forum members attending from Las Vegas included Carolyn Sparks, Caty Crockett, Heather Allen, Jo Ann Knapp, Miriam Shearing and Becky Takeda.
They were accompanied by Lynn Wiesner, Michael Knapp and Bob Payne, as well as Crockett’s daughter, Alex Crockett Norton of Washington, D.C.
Jordan’s Queen Rania Al-Abdullah met with the forum members and gave a tour of the Queen Rania Family & Child Center.
Receptions and dinners took place at historic sites such as the courtyard of the Omayyad Palace at the ancient ruins of The Citadel. One day’s excursion was to the Petra Treasury and to Mount Nebo, believed to be the burial site of Moses.
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