Photos: Artists Turn Out in Force to Support East Hampton Restoration Project

EAST HAMPTON, NY — Artistic luminaries came together to support a sensitive restoration project in East Hampton Friday.

The Thomas Moran Trust held its Midsummer Cocktail Party on Friday evening on the historical grounds of the Thomas Moran and Mary Nimmo Moran Studio on Main Street in East Hampton Village.

The benefit party celebrated the final phase of the project and offered the public a sneak peek of the interior, as well as access to the outbuildings and grounds.

A wide array of artists rallied to lend their support, bridging the legacy of the Morans with the contemporary East End art community.

Attendees included April Gornik, Ralph Gibson, Mary Jane Marcasiano, Bryan Hunt, Lucy Wintor, Susan Wood, and Neda Young — among others. Philanthropists and benefit committee members also showed up in full force, including co-chairpersons Hollis Forbes and Michael Clifford, Frank Newbold, Grier Eliasek and Tristana Wlatz, Charles Savage, Curt and Angel Schade, Doris and Gil Meister, Alan and Jackie Mitchell, Bruce and Laura Siska, Arthur "Tiger" and Katy Graham as well as East Hampton Village Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr. and his wife, Jean.

Photos by Richard Lewin Professional Photography, soniboy@aol.com.

Reporting by Richard Lewin.