On behalf of the Margaretville Hospital Board, greetings. We are grateful for your presence and participation in our sixth annual Community Art to Community Health (CATCH) Art Auction. This evening will celebrate the artwork of many donors across various mediums while helping to ensure that your family, friends, and neighbors have access to high-quality healthcare close to home.
CATCH proceeds will support primary care at Margaretville Hospital, a member of the WMCHealth Network, and the Margaretville Hospital Foundation.
This assembly of art and this event are products of many individuals, including our generous sponsors detailed in this program. We extend our thanks to Margaretville Telephone Company for the generous donation of the MTC Community Room; to Margaretville Hospital Board Member and auctioneer, Dave Rama; and to CATCH committee members, Patrick Burlingham and Richard Siegel.
We are also grateful for the hospitality of The Galli-Curci Theatre for hosting our preview event. Finally, we thank all Board members for their ongoing support, as well as all of you for your attendance and generosity.
With gratitude,
Emilie Adams Beth Eckels
Margaretville Hospital Margaretville Hospital Board Chair Foundation Board
Thank You to Our CATCH Event Sponsors
Avant-Garde Sponsor
Sculptural Sponsors
Suzanne
Richard
Abstract Sponsors
Diana Mason
Greene and John Kelly
A. Siegel and Polly de Mille
Margaretville Hospital Corporate Board
Officers
Emilie Adams, Chair
Dave Rama, Vice Chair
Board of Directors
Catherine Allen, MD
Elissa Chessari
Mike Cioffi
Steve Finch
Fred Margulies
Colleen Martin
Michael Hochman, Executive Director
Diana Mason, PhD, RN, FAAN
Diane Munro
Craig Sickler
Richard S. Siegel
Alex Waters
Margaretville Health Foundation Board
Officers
John L. Kelly, Chair
Cynthia Clark, Vice Chair
Board of Directors
Emilie Adams
Frank Carbone
Chris Criswell
Beth Eckels, Secretary and Treasurer
Michael Hochman, Executive Director
Pilar Esperson
Michelle Sidrane
Suzanne Sluiter
Westchester County Healthcare Corporation
Officers
Zubeen Shroff, Chair
Mitchell C. Hochberg, First Vice Chair
Mark S. Tulis, Esq, Vice Chair
Susan G. Gevertz, Vice Chair
Board of Directors
Tamer El-Rayess
William H. Frishman, MD
Patrick McCoy
Tracey Mitchell
Lori Morton, PhD
Alfredo S. Quintero, Treasurer
Judith Watson, RN, Secretary
David Lubarsky, MD, MBA, President and CEO
Martin Rogowsky
Michael N. Rosenblut
Sharla St. Rose, PhD
Richard G. Wishnie
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Lot 1
Rooster
Artist: Gary Mayer
30” x 24” | Acrylic on Canvas, 2023
Value: $1,200 • Starting Bid: $700
Artist bio: Mayer comes from a family of artists originally from Detroit. He exhibited widely in Detroit and New York City where he lived for 22 years. After moving to the Catskills in 2004, he has had numerous shows at Longyear Gallery in Margaretville and at Greenkill in Kingston. Recently, Mayer started a gallery with Patrice Lorenz and Ted Hannan called ArtUp in Margaretville, New York.
Lot 2
Bali Double #12
Artist: Gerda van Leeuwen
10” x 20” | Rust Print on Japanese Printing Paper to Panel
Value: $400 • Starting Bid: $300
Artist bio: Van Leeuwen received her Arts Education in Printmaking and Painting at Academy Artibus in Utrecht. A grant from the Dutch Cultural Counsel made it possible to buy an etching press and set up a fully equipped printing facility, where she collaborated with other artists on print portfolios and art books, while teaching drawing and printmaking. Upon moving to New York City in 1985, van Leeuwen set up a printing studio called Hudson Street Press with Peter Yamaoka in Tribeca. Since 2006, she has been working and teaching in Roxbury, New York.
Lot 3
Kaaterskill Falls
Artist: Alan Powell
12” x 9” | Oil on Paper, 2015
Value: $350 • Starting Bid: $200
Artist bio: Powell is a visual and electronic media artist based in Fleischmanns, New York. His 50-year career encompasses sculpture, painting, and experimental videography, as well as, multichannel installations and audio compositions.
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Lot 4
Resting
Artist: Maria Cox
10” x 8” | Photograph, Aluminum Print Flush Mount Frame, 2025
Value: $450 • Starting Bid: $200
Artist bio: Cox is a photographer living in New York, born in Croatia, with her formative years spent in Italy. She attended the Art Students League, SVA and ICP. Her work is included in collections such as Mt. Sinai, New York Presbyterian Hospital, McGraw Hill and private collections. Cox is currently working on a weekly series of photographs paired with poems for Carnegie Hill Village members.
Lot 5
Opera Pink
Artist: Laura Sue King
30” x 23” | Graphite and Pigment on Paper, 2019
Value: $1,500 • Starting Bid: $500
Artist bio: King has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, including one-person exhibitions at the Walt Meade Gallery in Roxbury, the Painters Gallery in Fleischmanns, El Museo de Arte de Caguas in Puerto Rico, and StandPipe Gallery, Modernica and Eich Space in New York City. Her exhibitions and curatorial projects have been reviewed in Artforum and The New York Times. King teaches printmaking and color theory at Hunter College in New York City.
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Lot 6
Flurry
Artist: Patrice Lorenz
15” x 15” | Mixed Media on Paper, 2025
Value: $700 • Starting Bid: $350
Artist bio: Lorenz is a draughtswoman at heart who studied printmaking at the State University of New York at Brockport and received her MA in painting from the State University of New York at Albany. She incorporates drawing, painting, printmaking, and other processes into her daily studio practice in Brooklyn, New York, and upstate in Delaware County. In 2005, she co-founded Longyear Gallery, a cooperative gallery in Margaretville, and in 2017, she co-founded ADHOC Projects, an artists’ collective that curates thematic pop-up exhibits online and in underutilized spaces.
Lot 7
Within, and Then Some I
Artist: Jerry Gallo
18” x 24” | Acrylic on Canvas, 2024
Value: $400 • Starting Bid: $200
Artist bio: Gallo was born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and currently resides in Shandaken and Yonkers, New York. His work explores form, shapes, and patterns, at times derived from nature, to convey ideas and sensations, while often suggesting a storyline for the viewer to complete. His work has appeared in exhibitions at Gallery 18 in Riverdale, New York, The Drawing Rooms in Jersey City, ArtUp Gallery in Margaretville, Andes Academy of Art, Urban Studio + Unbound in Yonkers, New York, the Brooklyn Museum, and on Yellow Fine Arts. He has had a solo exhibition at Polk State College, Florida.
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Lot 8
Going to Work, East 23rd St
Artist: Lisbeth Firmin
Donated by: Autumn Moore
22” x 30” | Monotype Print, 2012
Value: $2,000 • Starting Bid: $1,400
Artist bio: Firmin (1949–2025) was a contemporary American realist whose imagery explores the relationship between people and their environment, depicting modern life while engaging timeless themes of solitude and isolation.
“In Lisbeth Firmin’s paintings... human figures are suspended in time. The perspective is never straightforward but always leans toward the unusual.” — The New York Times review
Lot 9
Fleischmanns Park 3
Artist: Lesley A. Powell
12” x 9” | Watercolor, 2019
Value: $350 • Starting Bid: $200
Artist bio: Powell has been an artist all her life. She was first a dancer and choreographer and is now a painter. The love of movement, space, texture, the body, color, and nature are major influences on her art. Powell’s work explores the ability to expressively change the space, whether on the stage or on the canvas.
Lot 10
Delicate Life
Artist: Holly Cohen
14” x 11” | Photograph, 2023
Value: $250 • Starting Bid: $150
Artist bio: Cohen’s greatest inspiration is her love of animals and the natural world. Through photography, she shares her innate artistry and vision of the world. She created Golightly Ink in 2021.
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Lot 11
November Morning
Artist: Karen Meyer
Donated by: Ron Macklin & Cynthia Clark
22” x 28” | Ink and Watercolor, c. 1991
Value: $1,200 • Starting Bid: $500
Lot 12
Untitled
Artist: Peter Yamaoka
Donated by: Ellen Fauerbach
13” x 11” | Ceramic
Value: $600 • Starting Bid: $400
Artist bio: Yamaoka graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and attended the Royal College of Art in London. While his early work centered on printmaking, drawing, and painting, his most recent work was in ceramics, informed by sources ranging from Greek mythology, to Mexican dioramas, to Han dynasty burial objects. Yamaoka founded Hudson Street Press, which published portfolios of artist editions in New York City, where he lived for many years. Yamaoka later moved to Roxbury, New York, in the Catskills, where he maintained his studio and was also an avid gardener.Lot 10
Lot 13
Green VIII
Artist: GG Stankiewicz
10” x 7” | Monotype Print, 2004
Value: $250 • Starting Bid: $100
Artist bio: Stankiewicz is a multidisciplinary artist. Her art is nature-inspired.
“Experiencing the local nature day-to-day with the changing seasons has been a primary influence in my artwork. The colors, lines, shapes, textures, and patterns manifest themselves as stratified gestural marks, pigment pools, and interwoven layers of old with new and forgotten with found.”
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Lot 14
Alone
Artist: Cena Pohl Crane
12” x 9” | Oil on Canvas, 2026
Value: $200 • Starting Bid: $100
Artist bio: Cena Pohl Crane is an oil painter who recently relocated from Brooklyn to Margaretville. Influenced by German, Austrian, and Abstract Expressionists, her work conveys a sense of discomfort with modern life — its fragmentation, loneliness, and the urgent need for change. Bold, vibrant colors dominate her oil paintings, creating a tension and energy that leave little room for calm.
Lot 15 Roads Not Taken II
Artist: Robin Factor
14” x 11” | Mixed Media on Paper, 2024
Value: $400 • Starting Bid: $250
Artist bio: “I love the thrill of creating, and maybe tellingly, creating my own environments with total autonomy. How can the characters in my universe become more than their parts and take on meaning to transcend their objectness?”
Lot 16
Distillery Series 19
Artist: Michael Sanzone
Donated by: Connie Birdsall
13” x 13” | Whiskey Cask (Wood), 2016
Value: $2,000 • Starting Bid: $1,200
Artist bio: Initiated during an artist-in-residence program at the Glenfiddich Distillery in the Scottish Highlands, this series by artist and filmmaker Michael Sanzone features wall sculptures created from assemblages of reclaimed whiskey casks. Sanzone was inspired by the storied journey of the wood: barrels crafted from Spanish or American oak that were transported to Scotland to be filled, used, and eventually discarded, until being reclaimed and repurposed by the artist.
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Lot 17
Looks Like Rain
Artist: Steve Burnett
17” x 24” | Charcoal on Paper
Value: $1,400 • Starting Bid: $800
Artist bio: In addition to being a very talented artist, Burnett and his wife, Kristie, run a beautiful farm in Bovina, New York. He is currently drawing from his farm experiences and from the stories his grandparents shared with him about being immigrant farmers in Iowa.
Lot 18
Prevailing Winds (Scotland Series – Monreith)
Artist: Polly Law
19” x 12” | Silkscreen 10/11, 2005
Value: $500 • Starting Bid: $250
Artist bio: Law is a bricoleur, mythologist, and printmaker living and working in the Rondout Valley of New York State. Her working techniques range from paste-paint cut-paper collage to monoprints, linocuts, silkscreen prints, and bricolage pieces, all working within a range of matrices and themes, reiterating and amplifying them in conversation. Her themes include narrative, myth, nature, and sometimes, a powerful eye.
Lot 19
Passing Rain
Artist: Sheryl Thornton
Donated by: Colleen Martin
8” x 23” | Gouache on Paper, 1988
Value: $500 • Starting Bid: $250
Artist bio: Thornton is a Utah artist who works in gouache, watercolor, and oil, typically painting landscapes, but also still life and animals. Her approach is impressionistic and bold, with an emphasis on mood.
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Lot 20 Spring
Artist: Tony Jannetti
13” x 18” | Hand-drawn, Digital Giclée Print, 2014
Value: $450 • Starting Bid: $250
Artist bio: Jannetti’s artworks are in a broad range of corporate and private collections worldwide, including MoMA, the Zimmerli Museum, and university collections around the country. Jannetti currently curates the Ovid Window Gallery in Pine Hill, New York. He holds a BFA in film graphics from Pratt Institute.
Lot 21
Toucan
Artist: Kirsten Kraa
Donated by: Seamus Howie
48” x 18” | Oil on Canvas, 1963
Value: $1,800 • Starting Bid: $700
Artist bio: Kraa (1941–2020) was a Germanborn American painter and a protégé of Roy Lichtenstein whose work was acquired by MoMA while she was still a graduate student. She is best known for her recurring “Everyman” figure, a motif used throughout her six-decade career to explore universal human identity through a bold, Pop Art–influenced lens. Her paintings are held in the permanent collections of MoMA and the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.
Lot 22
Blue/Yellow
Artist: Jack Youngerman
Donated by: Seamus Howie
35” x 25” | Lithograph 47/144, 1968
Value: $2,800 • Starting Bid: $1,500
Artist bio: Youngerman (1926–2020) was born in Saint Louis, Missouri. He studied at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1947 to 1948, and after traveling and working in Europe and the Near East, he settled in New York City in 1956. In the 1960s, his work advanced from constructivist to hard-edge abstraction, painted in flat, brilliant colors, with compositions that seemed to reverse out from each other like stencils. His work has been exhibited widely, including at MoMA, the Guggenheim, and the Whitney.
Lot 23
Somerset, Belle Vue Farm
Artist: Bernard Cohen
18” x 18” | Original Silver Gelatin Print, 2000
Value: $650 • Starting Bid: $350
Artist bio: Cohen, a visual artist now based in Margaretville, New York, has dedicated his professional career to creating both advertising and fine art photography. His commercial clientele includes Chase Bank, the CDC, UPS, Geiger International, Thonet International, Saks Fifth Avenue, W Magazine, and Town & Country Magazine. Cohen has also ventured into the realm of fine jewelry design, worn by Oprah Winfrey and showcased at bernardcohencollectionny.com.
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Lot 24
Light on the Ridge
Artist: Christie Scheele
15” x 30” | Oil on Linen, 2022
Value: $3,000 • Starting Bid: $1,200
Artist bio: Scheele began painting her atmospheric, minimalist landscapes just before moving to the Catskills from New York City in 1990. She has been an exhibiting artist for over 40 years, with work placed in hundreds of museums, private, and corporate collections nationwide, all created from her timber-frame studio on Ox Clove Creek in Chichester, New York.
Lot 25 Flow
Artist: Sara Stone
14” x 14” | Watercolor on Arches Paper, 2026
Value: $500 • Starting Bid: $250
Artist bio: Stone has a professional background in ceramics, industrial design, photography, illustration, and calligraphy, and is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. She loves to draw and paint whenever possible and is particularly inspired by nature and landscape. After joining the East Branch of the Delaware Plein Air Painters, she rediscovered how much she loves painting with watercolors. Stone lives in the scenic hamlet of Halcottsville, New York, where she is inspired daily to pick up a pen or a brush.
Lot 26
Silver Floral #2
Artist: Melanie Greene
Donated by: Suzanne Greene
30” x 22” | Print, 1978
Value: $950 • Starting Bid: $500
Artist bio: Greene’s parents owned a flower shop in Fleischmanns, New York, where they grew sweet peas, the primary subject matter in Greene’s watercolors and still life settings. She showed at the Catherine Martell Gallery in New York City.
Lot 27
Higher Power
Artist: Michael Reichman
24” x 18” | Acrylic on Canvas, 2020
Value: $600 • Starting Bid: $300
Artist bio: Reichman is a self-taught painter who grew up in New York City in a home clouded by addiction and mental illness. After a long recovery, his love of art remained steadfast. Reichman now has an extensive body of work, in which many of his struggles and successes are evident.
Lot 28
Color 100032655
Artist: Jennifer Lord Rhodes
20” x 20” | Acrylic on Canvas, 2026
Value: $400 • Starting Bid: $250
Artist bio: Rhodes works with acrylic, gouache, watercolor, pencil, charcoal, thread, and other media. She is inspired by architecture, digitization, color, geometry, psychological noise, stillness, and the meditational states found in repetition and labor. She lives in the Catskills, New York, and has exhibited paintings and photography in Berlin, Bamberg, Garmisch, and Chapel Hill.
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Lot 29
Untitled
Artist: Joseph Amar
Donated by: Joseph Zito
12” x 10” | Watercolor and Ink on Paper, 1991
Value: $2,000 • Starting Bid: $1,000
Artist bio: Amar (1954–2001) was born in Casablanca, Morocco, and immigrated to Toronto as a child. He created sculptural paintings focused on materiality, allowing found materials to guide his creative process. After several successful exhibitions in Toronto, he moved to New York in 1979, where his work combined Abstract Expressionism in a unique dialogue with Minimalism. His career was cut short in 1991 when he and his family were in a tragic accident that left him paralyzed from the neck down. Amar’s work has been exhibited internationally and is held in a number of public and private collections around the world, including the Guggenheim Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Carnegie Museum of Art, among others.
Lot 30
Yellow House
Artist: Mary McFerran
24” x 18” | Collage on Paper, 2022
Value: $600 • Starting Bid: $400
Artist bio: McFerran is an interdisciplinary artist who lives in the Catskills and Croton, New York. She is fascinated by the variety of life cycles constantly on display in nature.
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Lot 31
Three Birds
Artist: Mary McFerran
24” x 18” | Collage on Paper, 2022
Value: $600 • Starting Bid: $400
Artist bio: McFerran is an interdisciplinary artist who lives in the Catskills and Croton, New York. She is fascinated by the variety of life cycles constantly on display in nature.
Lot 32
I’ll Hold You Tight, All Night
Artist: Scott Ackerman
11” x 14” | Acrylic on Pencil on Wood, 2026
Value: $1,200 • Starting Bid: $700
Artist bio: Ackerman is a self-taught artist living and working in Margaretville, New York. The influence of Folk art is evident in his expressive mark-making, vibrant palette, and symbolic imagery — sparking a narrative that invites the viewer to complete the story.
Lot 33
Spitfires Over Anzio
Artist: Francis J. McGinley
Donated by: The Artist's Family
12” x 27” | Oil on Board, c. 1980
Value: $1,500 • Starting Bid: $700
Artist bio: McGinley (1928–2017) was a celebrated historical artist and Korean War veteran whose works are held in prestigious collections, including the Pentagon and West Point. This painting is on the cover of his book, Let Us Never Forget, a visual testament to his career-long commitment to preserving the stories of 20th-century veterans and survivors.
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Lot 34
Sunflowers
Artist: Laura Taylor
18” x 18” | Oil on Canvas, 2024
Value: $1,600 • Starting Bid: $800
Artist bio: Taylor was born in Maryland to a Brazilian mother and an American father, and raised in London, Ontario. Her childhood was marked by frequent visits to Brazil to visit family, with many summers spent deep in the Atlantic rain forest. Taylor studied at The Ontario College of Art and at The New York Studio School. She has been awarded residencies in Germany, Austria, Governor’s Island in New York City, and the Vermont Studio Center. Her work has been shown at AIR Gallery, The Painting Center, Brenda Taylor Gallery, RKL Gallery, and elsewhere. Since 2010, she has divided her time between New York City and the Catskills.
Lot 35 Koi II
Artist: Keiko Howard
20” x 15” | Oil on Canvas, 2024
Value: $950 • Starting Bid: $200
Artist bio: Howard is a Japan-born visual artist based in Delaware County, New York. Influenced by Impressionism and drawn to the emotional power of human connection, her work explores light, space, and personal memory through layered applications of oil, acrylic, pastel, alcohol ink, and cold wax. After earning a degree in visual arts from SUNY New Paltz, Howard paused her practice to raise a family and returned with renewed focus during the pandemic. Since then, she has exhibited in international art fairs, solo shows, local juried shows, and group exhibitions throughout New York State.
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Lot 36
Precariously Optimistic
Artist: Gaby Dorough
12” x 9” | Watercolor on Cotton, 2026
Value: $300 • Starting Bid: $150
Artist bio: Dorough is a watercolor artist originally from Mexico, now based in Houston, Texas. Fascinated by the controlled chaos of the medium, she specializes in portraits and also enjoys painting interesting snapshots of everyday life through her own lens.
Lot 37
Williamsburg Bridge
Artist: Alfredo Santos
Donated by: David Mann
22” x 57” | Mixed Media Assemblage (Painted Wood Relief), c. 1970
Value: $2,000 • Starting Bid: $1,000
Artist bio: The career of Santos (1927–2015) began under extraordinary circumstances while incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison in the 1950s. After winning a prisonwide competition, he spent two years painting a series of monumental 100-foot-long murals in the inmate dining hall — works now recognized as California historical landmarks. Subsequently moving to the Catskills, Santos became a fixture of the local art scene, operating a gallery and studio in Fleischmanns, New York for many years.
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Lot 38
Untitled
Artist: Ann Greene Kelly
23” x 21” | Graphite on Paper, 2017
Value: $6,000 • Starting Bid: $2,000
Artist bio: Kelly is an acclaimed sculptor known for transforming found objects and vernacular materials into surreal, uncanny assemblages. She also creates detailed pencil drawings in which she accumulates motifs referring to her domestic environment. She has had solo exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Chapter NY, New York; Michael Benevento, Los Angeles; Paul Soto, Brussels; AND NOW, Dallas; and White Columns, New York, as well as, numerous group exhibitions. Her work was included in the 2021 New Museum Triennial and Made in LA 2020: A Version. She has work in the collections of the Morgan Library & Museum, the AKG Art Museum (Buffalo), the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Hammer Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Lot 39
Subtle Expression
Artist: Bea Ortiz
5.5” x 8.5” | Ink on Paper, 2021
Value: $500 • Starting Bid: $250
Artist bio: Ortiz is a Spanish-American artist who studied fine art at the University of Salamanca and completed post-graduate studies in education at the University of Valladolid in Spain. In 1998, she moved to New York City, where she maintained an international career as a decorative painter and muralist. She taught art for non-profit organizations in schools and nursing home facilities, and produced multi-disciplinary performances in New York City and Madrid. In 2018, she relocated to the Catskills, New York and returned to a full-time art-making practice following a life-changing illness.
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Lot 40
Go Rock
Artist: Ken Hiratsuka
9.5” diameter x 3” thickness
Hand-carved Grey Marble, 2019
Value: $6,000 • Starting Bid: $2,500
Artist bio: Hiratsuka is internationally renowned for his life’s work of carving one continuous, never-crossing line into stone to symbolize universal human communication. He often refers to his works as “fossils of the moment.” They are both modern and ancient — a symbol of human communication through universal language on the surface of the earth as one huge rock. Now a longtime resident of the Catskills, New York, with a studio in Andes, Hiratsuka has created permanent public monuments in over 20 countries, ranging from the sidewalks of SoHo to the Gobi Desert.
Lot 41
Lilypad58
Artist: Emilie Adams
30” x 22” | Watercolor on Paper, 2026
Value: $1,200 • Starting Bid: $700
Artist bio: Adams is a New Kingston, New York resident and watercolor artist. This is her sixth year donating to the Margaretville Hospital Art Auction. Adams also serves on both the Margaretville Hospital Corporate Board and the Foundation Board.
Lot 42
Mountain Road in the Rain
Artist: Ellen Wong
12” x 16” | Oil on Linen, 2019
Value: $950 • Starting Bid: $500
Artist bio: Wong has had a 25-year love affair with painting the Catskill landscape. To Wong, nature’s beauty is unrivaled — an infinite palette of hues and values — constantly transforming, changing moment to moment, day to day, and season to season.
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Lot 50
Howie Barn
Artist: Marcus Simpson
5” x 7” | Watercolor and Ink, 2024
Value: $200 • Starting Bid: $125
Artist bio: Simpson is an Arkville, New York resident and a member of the East Branch Delaware River Plein Air Painters (EBDRPAP).
Lot 51
July Catskills, NY
Artist: Marcus Simpson
6” x 9” | Watercolor and Ink, 2025
Value: $200 • Starting Bid: $125
Artist bio: Simpson is an Arkville, New York resident and a member of the East Branch Delaware River Plein Air Painters (EBDRPAP).
Lot 52
Birch on Oak Ridge
Artist: Jenny Neal
9” x 11” | Photograph, 2015
Value: $175 • Starting Bid: $150
Artist bio: Neal is a writer, artist, and photographer. For 12 years, she has owned and curated Upstate Dispatch, a brand encompassing a journal, book, studio, and art gallery on Main Street in Margaretville, New York.
Lot 53
Catskill Landscape
Artist: John Booth Hopkins
Donated by: Rob & Jan Andersen
12” x 12” | Oil on Canvas, 2010
Value: $600 • Starting Bid: $350
Artist bio: Hopkins (1939–2018) was a prominent Catskill landscape painter and a foundational member of the Longyear Gallery in Margaretville, New York.
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Lot 54
The Ido Barn
Artist: Julie Surette
5” x 7” | Photograph
Value: $250 • Starting Bid: $125
Lot 55
New York Public Library
Artist: Tavík František Šimon
Donated by: Mike Moriarty
14” x 17” | Colored Etching on Paper, 1927
Value: $1,500 • Starting Bid: $500
Artist bio: Tavík František Šimon (1877–1942) was a prolific Czech painter and master printmaker celebrated for his atmospheric etchings and woodcuts of European cityscapes and global travels. His work is characterized by a sophisticated use of color aquatint and a keen eye for architectural detail and fleeting urban moments. As a founding member of the Hollar Association of Czech Graphic Artists, his technical mastery of the colored etching remains highly sought after by collectors of early 20th-century graphic arts.
Lot 56
Sanford’s Barns
Artist: Linda Lariar Webb-Varian
16” x 20” | Watercolor, 2019
Value: $500 • Starting Bid: $250
Artist bio: “Born in Brooklyn, New York, in May 1938. Yes, I am a crone. I studied sculpture at Bard College and graduated in 1960. Since then I have had no formal art training. I work in colored pencils and have recently added them to acrylics and watercolor. Since I moved to where I live now, in the High Peak area of the Catskills, I have become enraptured by the light here.”
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Lot 57
Cherry
Blossoms
Artist: Unknown
Donated by: Colleen Martin
16” x 20” | Ink and Watercolor, c. 1980s
Value: $75 • Starting Bid: $30
Lot 58
Study
Artist: Sheryl Thornton
Donated by: Colleen Martin
4” x 8” | Gouache on Paper
Value: $150 • Starting Bid: $75
Artist bio: Thornton is a Utah artist who works in gouache, watercolor, and oil, typically painting landscapes, but also still life and animals. Her approach is impressionistic and bold, with an emphasis on mood.
Lot 59
Beyond the Horizon
Artist: Yamile Bustos
24” x 30” | Acrylic on Canvas, 2026
Value: $1,650 • Starting Bid: $400
Artist bio: Born in Paterson, New Jersey, to a well-known graffiti artist and a talented salsa dancer, Bustos was raised in a home overflowing with art and culture. After studying fine art at the Rosa Parks School of Fine and Performing Arts, she moved west to pursue a culinary degree in baking and pastry. For several years, croissants, cookies, and cakes were able to feed her desire to create. But destiny was always certain of Yamile’s return to paper, pen, paint, and canvas, and in 2022, that journey began. Her work is layered. Just underneath the seemingly safe surface – pain, struggle, and vulnerability are leaking out of the cracks and opacities.
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Lot 60
City of Antwerp 12-15-44
Artist: Francis J. McGinley
Donated by: The Artist's Family 13” x 18” | Watercolor on Paper, 1987
Value: $800 • Starting Bid: $300
Artist bio: McGinley (1928–2017) was a celebrated historical artist and Korean War veteran whose works are held in prestigious collections, including the Pentagon and West Point. This painting is on the cover of his book, Let Us Never Forget, a visual testament to his career-long commitment to preserving the stories of 20th-century veterans and survivors.
Lot 61
Jump Over Normandy
Artist: Francis J. McGinley
Donated by: The Artist's Family 10” x 13” | Oil on Board, c. 1980s
Value: $650 • Starting Bid: $200
Artist bio: McGinley (1928–2017) was a celebrated historical artist and Korean War veteran whose works are held in prestigious collections, including the Pentagon and West Point. This painting is on the cover of his book, Let Us Never Forget, a visual testament to his career-long commitment to preserving the stories of 20th-century veterans and survivors.
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Lot 62
We’ve Already Won
Artist: Mark Opirhory
20” x 30” | Giclée print, 2020
Value: $400 • Starting Bid: $200
Artist bio: Opirhory is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York, where he lives, works, and teaches. He holds a bachelor’s degree in illustration and a Master of Fine Arts, and works across a variety of mediums, primarily oil paint, watercolor, graphite, and photography. His practice explores growth and decay as a context for philosophical inquiry. Drawing from natural processes rather than contemporary symbols, his work centers on subtle transformations such as erosion, regeneration, and the passage of time.
Lot 63
Extreme Sunset
Artist: Richard Simms
6” x 8” | Acrylic on Canvas, 2022
Value: $100 • Starting Bid: $25
Artist bio: Simms is an artist who studied fashion design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. He recently retired from his Wildflowers flower shop in Margaretville, New York, which he founded in 1995.
Lot 64
Central Park
Artist: Maria Cox
15” x 11” | Photograph, 2022
Value: $1,000 • Starting Bid: $400
Artist bio: Cox is a photographer living in New York, born in Croatia, with her formative years spent in Italy. She attended the Art Students League, SVA and ICP. Her work is included in collections such as Mt. Sinai, New York Presbyterian Hospital, McGraw Hill and private collections. Cox is currently working on a weekly series of photographs paired with poems for Carnegie Hill Village members.
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Lot 65
Late June Storm Study
Artist: Ann Lee Fuller
Donated by: Rob & Jan Andersen
5” x 7” | Oil on Canvas, 2006
Value: $400 • Starting Bid: $200
Artist bio: “My work might be viewed as a combination of literal and abstract, a meeting of contrasts. The paintings are inspired by the intrinsic abstraction of the sky with its unique moments of light, layer, and color. For me, the sky is a metaphor for time, as each moment has never happened before and will never happen again.”
Lot 66
Icon 5
Artist: Ann Lee Fuller
Donated by: Rob & Jan Andersen
4” x 6” | Oil onPanel, 2010
Value: $350 • Starting Bid: $200
Artist bio: “My work might be viewed as a combination of literal and abstract, a meeting of contrasts. The paintings are inspired by the intrinsic abstraction of the sky with its unique moments of light, layer, and color. For me, the sky is a metaphor for time, as each moment has never happened before and will never happen again.”
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We are honored to carry this event forward with Jim’s continued support as an advisor. The success of this sixth annual auction is a testament to the strong foundation he helped build.
