Event Time: 3:00pm – 5:00pm
(This discussion is in conjunction with the on-going Santa Fe Gallery Association’s Art Matters programs launched in 2013.)
Affiliated with the prestigious auction house of Parke-Bernet (later bought by Sotheby’s) Eric devised a plan to assist an out-of-town collector in securing art during the entire auction via telephone. It was the first time in American art history, now a common occurrence. Eric has assisted many institutions form or update their theater design collections. The most notable, he created “Designs for a Prima Donna: Dame Joan Sutherland”, the largest ever assembled at the Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, covering 25 years of the diva’s life. Others include Smithsonian’s National Museum of Design: The Cooper Hewitt Museum housed in the Carnegie Mansion in NYC, The Museum of the City of New York, and The Harvard Theater Collection. He also worked closely with the two most prominent theater design collectors in the U.S. in developing their collections: Robert Lynn Batts Tobin (who had a home in Santa Fe and greatly supported the Santa Fe Opera; his collection is now in a museum bearing his name at the University of Texas at Austin), and Paul Stiga, previously a New Yorker, now in Massachusetts. Eric will have copies of his most current book, “Last Guy Waltzing” available for sale.