Botanicals: Environmental Expressions in Art, the Alisa and Isaac M. Sutton Collection

Preview reception, Thursday, 22 October 2009

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Alisa and Isaac Sutton’s daughter Norma Lenora with her watercolor on paper, Floral Painting, 2003, that introduces the exhibition.


Artist Carol Woodin between her watercolor on vellum stretched over board, Vanda ‘Pat’s Delight,’ 2002, and Hiroe Sasaki’s watercolor on paper, Symphonia globalifera Caxiuna Para, 1995.

Organizers of the exhibition celebrate the opening—Left to Right: Susan Frei Nathan of Susan Frei Nathan Fine Works on Paper; Isaac M. Sutton, lender of his collection; Alice Marcus Krieg of Groundworks, Inc., and Acting Curator of Art Lugene Bruno stand in front of Katie Lee’s gouache on paper, The Sutton Dogwood, 2001; Martha Kemp’s graphite pencil on paper, Chaenomeles speciosa ‘Toyo Nishiki,’ Flowering Quince, 2001; and Rodella Purves’ watercolor on paper, Viburnum, 2001.


The collector Isaac Sutton speaks with Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reporter Kurt Shaw.










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