Peter Schjeldahl and Brook Alderson's 4th of July party. See previous three entries and next four entries.]]> Peter Schjeldahl and Brooke Alderson's 4th of July Party. See previous two entries and next five entries.]]> Peter Schjeldahl and Brooke Alderson's 4th of July Party. See previous entry and six following entries.]]> We had just arrived for Peter Schjeldahl and Brooke Alderson's 4th of July Party. Catherine was putting together the cucumber salad in the hatchback of the car. The Verlaans arrived and we chatted. See following seven entries.]]> On our way up to Rose's birthday (see following six entries) we ran into Joy and Jack at the Montgomery Place farm Stand (see Elisabeth and Ralph, 6/30/07 in the "Visitors" section of the site).]]> Dinner at Sonis and Gregory. Among a thousand other things that were talked about, Sonia mentioned she and Gregory going into The Rhinebeck Artist's and meeting Doug Shippee, how much they liked the shop and that Doug knew Gregory's work and expressed his admiration of it. See previous entry.]]> I have been going to Catskill Art and Office, Poughkeepsie, NY for many years. When I was struck to take this photograph, I was surprised and sorry that I hadn't taken more of the over the years. This makes me think that I should take regular "Groups" site section updates in the places I do errands at on a regular basis. See next entry]]> We met for dinner at Cena 2000 in Newburgh, New York.]]> We had arranged to meet Tom and Joyce for dinner at the Main Course. We were going to an opening at the Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz. The Exhibit was called, The Uncanny Valley and we knew a few people that were in the show. We were having dinner at the Main Course (or at leas waiting for dinner) and we were whining about how long it was taking for dinner to arrive at the table. The people at the next table were having the same issues. So we all complained to each other and that started a conversation. We hadn't known Harry and Tamar before. It turns out that they were at the Dorsky as well and that Harry Wilks was in the exhibition.]]> Catherine and I went to see Knocked up at the Roosevelt movie theater in Hyde Park, NY. We saw Monica and Robert there.]]> I had to go up to Kingston to get Rose's birthday present. On the way back home I went to the Rhinebeck Art Store to pick up some things that Doug ordered for us. Coicidentally with the last picture (see last entry), Doug was for many years the manager of Catskill Art and Office in Pougheepsie. He bought The Rhinebeck Artist's shop a short time ago. This was my first time in and his family was in the store which persipitated this photograph. I keep meaning to read the direction in my camera manual so I don't get red eye in the photographs, and clearly have not done that as yet - too busy.]]> We unexpectedly saw Stephan and a friend of his, Lindsey, at Upstate Films. We chatted outside after the film. See previous two entries.]]> Stephen and I spotted each other at the restaurant. They were out for Father's Day. If you look at the table in the distance towards the right you can see Peter Saul at our table. We had made arrangements to have dinner with Peter and Sally Saul at Gigi's in Rhinebeck. Afterwards to go see a documentary on the painter Alice Neel. See last and next entries.]]> Charles had an open studio over the weekend. I went to Charles and Maria's house in Poughkeepsie for the open studio. Joanne Klein was also there to see Charles' work.]]> At Gigi's restaurant in Rhinebeck, NY. See next two entries.]]> Jean and Martin Puryear hosted a concert, a Brahms Quintet perfomed by five young musicians, including their daughter Sasha.]]> Jean and Martin Puryear hosted a concert, a Brahms Quintet perfomed by five young musicians, including their daughter Sasha.]]> We went with Barbara and Judy to Serevan Restaurant in Amenia, NY. We saw Annette and Chris there. Coincidentally we had spoken with Annette a few days before and talked about meeting at Serevan for dinner at some point soon, which we will be doing.]]> Peter and Shawn had a picnic at their house in Hunns Lake, NY. See previous three entries.]]> Peter and Shawn had a picnic at their house in Hunns Lake, NY. See previous two entries and following entry.]]> Peter and Shawn had a picnic at their house in Hunns Lake, NY. See previous entry and following two entries.]]> Peter and Shawn had a picnic at their house in Hunns Lake, NY.]]> John and Eve had a dinner for John's birthday.]]> I went to the gallery to meet with Cecily and Roy about my upcoming exhibition. I brought about 40 of the 100 Most Popular Colors drawing series to see if they would be up for showing them. They were very enthusiastic and we finalized that the show exhibit would be this October.]]> At Sacha and Olivier, NYC]]> Judy arranged a dinner for Barbara for her birthday and her retirement from Vassar College. The dinner was shifted later because of a restaurant reservation issue. We went to Barbara's for drinks and snacks and couldn't go to dinner afterwards for various reasons.]]> Out in the yard at Tom and Joyce's house.]]> Allan Garganus was inducted into the Academy at a ceremony that day. See previous entry.]]> Jackie (a former students of Catherine's), received an Academy award at that days ceremony as well as a purchase award. Juan Gomez received a Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation award. See next entry.]]> Cappy gave a dinner in honor of Barbara Page, who is retiring from Vassar College.]]> We were doing the final critiques for the studio majors senior project. We were taking a short lunch break.]]> I could not decide what to do for my birthday, if anything. So Cathy convinced me to go to Woodbury Commons and buy some clothes for myself ( in addition to my other presents). I called Bob and Sylvia to see if they wanted to go to dinner. After going shopping at Woodbury Commons in Central Valley, NY, we met them at Toro (which used to be the Cherry Blossom, where we had been going for years) for dinner.]]> Joyce wanted to come and see the student sculpture and animation exhibition at Vassar College. She is going to be taking my place when I am on sabbatical in the fall. So thought it would be good to see what the students are doing and meet some of the students she will be working with next year. Tom and she both came to the opening as did Catherine. After the opening, the four of us went out to dinner at the Beechtree Restaurant across the street from Vassar.]]> We had dinner at Amici's Retaurant, near the train station in Poughkeepsie. John had to get a 7:30 train to get to the city to work on editing the Honey Drippers.]]> I picked Elisabeth up at her house and then we came to our house to get Cathy. We met Ralph at Fosters Coach House Restaurant for dinner. After that we went next door to Upstate Films to see Ace in the Hole by Billie Wilder. There was a pre-screening talk by Scott Spencer.]]> We went to Pittsfield to see Arthur and Billy's new house. See next entry.]]> First Catherine and me visited with Arthur and Billy, then to dinner at Elizabeth's in Pittsfield, MA. Billy and Arthur had arranged for their friends Reba and Bruce to meet us for dinner. See previous entry.]]> The Drawing center had a benefit event at which Sylvia and Bob (Robert Mangold) were honored.]]> We ran into Wendy and some of her friends going around to galleries in Chelsea, NYC. See previous entry.]]> See following entry.]]>