A Midsummer Cocktail Party To Benefit The Thomas Moran Studio

Studio-Interior — Studio Interior – Courtesy of the Long Island Collection, East Hampton Library

The Thomas Moran Trust has announced its Midsummer Cocktail Party, to be held on the evening of July 29th on the historical grounds of the Thomas Moran and Mary Nimmo Moran Studio on Main Street in East Hampton Village. The party will celebrate the final phases of this sensitive restoration project and offer the public a sneak-peek of the interior, as well as access to the outbuildings and grounds.

scan0010 — Thomas Moran Studio, East Hampton, NY. – Courtesy of the Long Island Collection, East Hampton Library

A community of artistic luminaries has rallied to lend their support, bridging the legacy of the Morans with the contemporary East End art community. Benefit Committee members include: Cindy Sherman, Larry Gagosian, Kim Cattrall, Eric Fischl, April Gornik, Nicole Miller, Edwina von Gal, Ralph Gibson, Mary Jane Marcasiano, and Neda Young — among others.

Gondola — Thomas Moran’s gondola on Hook Pond. Photo courtesy of the Long Island Collection, East Hampton Public Library.

“It is really the Morans who jump-started East Hampton as an artist’s colony. Their extraordinary Victorian turreted studio, built in 1884, will be a center for the story of artists, landscapes, and seascapes, and is why the South Fork lured painters to this beautiful tip of Long Island,” said Richard Barons, Executive Director of the Trust.

Thomas-and-Mary-Nimmo-Moran — Thomas and Mary Nimmo Moran – Photo courtesy of the Long Island Collection, East Hampton Public Library.

All proceeds from the Midsummer Benefit Cocktail Party at the Moran Studio will go toward the completion of the restoration. In 1885, the great American landscape painter Thomas Moran and his wife, Mary Nimmo Moran, a celebrated printmaker, and their children moved into their new studio and house that Moran himself designed on East Hampton’s historical Main Street. The Moran Studio was the first artist’s studio built in East Hampton and it played a significant role in American art history. In its heyday The Studio was a lively center of the turn-of-the-19th-century art colony.

Tickets for the Midsummer Benefit Cocktail Party at the Moran Studio start at $250 and can be bought online at www.thomasmorantrust.org or by calling the office of the Thomas Moran Trust at 631-324-0100.