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Sally Marshall
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Make Carnegie Museums Part of Your Life
“We practically grew up
in museums,” recalls Sally Marshall of her childh
ood spent crisscrossing the country with her
family. Her family divided their
time between Pittsburgh and California, and on their cross-country trips they visited
museums in cities along the way.
Sally has been a docent at Carnegie Museum of Art for
the past 30 years. Her husband,
Matt, a retired urologist, shares her interest in art. They have made their love of art an
important part of their lives. They
have what Sally describes as a “modest” collection of paintings, screens,
and other works of art that they have found everywhere from Sotheby’s, to
print dealers and galleries, to flea markets worldwide. They found many of their Asian treasures
in San
Francisco,
where Matt did his medical residency.
In addition to
Sally’s volunteering her time as a docent, she and Matt have supported
Carnegie Museums over the years in a number of ways. They are members of the Carnegie Patrons
Circle, which recognizes donors who make leadership gifts to the museums’
annual sustaining fund.
They also have made several planned gifts to Carnegie
Museums. For example, Sally and Matt
are giving a two-panel screen by 17th-century Japanese artist
KANO Tannyu to Carnegie Museum of Art through a series of gifts of
percentage interests. They receive
an income tax deduction with each percentage interest gift, and they have
bequeathed their remaining interest in the screen to the museum.
Sally
and Matt also have named Carnegie Museum of Art as a beneficiary of their
charitable remainder trust (CRT), under which they will receive income for
the rest of their lives (and an immediate income tax deduction), with the
remainder going to the charitable beneficiaries they name.
Sally says that the enjoyment and education she and
Matt have received over the years at the museums, as well as their belief
in supporting Pittsburgh-based institutions, motivated them to make these
very generous gifts.
If
you’d like more information about gifts of percentage interest in art works
or charitable remainder trusts, please contact Sally Davoren at
412.578.2478 or davorens@carnegiemuseums.org.
Travel with Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh
Carnegie Museums invites
members to travel with our own museum specialists, directors, and special
guests on exceptional excursions that provide opportunities for discovery
rarely found in conventional trips.
For
more information about traveling with Carnegie Museums, please call
412.578.2618 or 412.622.5774 or e-mail travel@carnegiemuseums.org.
Southern Spring
“Springtime in the Antebellum South: Savannah & Charleston”
March
20-25, 2002
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Owens-Thomas House in Savannah
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Spend five nights and six
days during spring, the season of revival, in Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina, two cities at the vanguard of the Deep South’s own revival.
You’ll visit Savannah during the season that its famous azaleas are in bloom. Gracious Savannah is known as the “Hostess City of the South,” and you’ll tour some of the city’s most stately and
historic homes, including the Andrew Low House and the Owens-Thomas
House. You’ll also visit the Telfair
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
After a brief stop in the delightful coastal town of Beaufort, you’ll travel on to Charleston, described by Conde Nast Traveler as the “most dramatically reborn” of
American Colonial Cities. There,
you’ll tour private homes and gardens, including two 18th-century
plantations on the Ashley River, as part of the Historic Charleston Foundation
Festival of Homes and Garden. You’ll
also see the Gibbes Museum of Art and the outstanding Carolina collection of John and Kathleen Rivers. A special treat will be a private dinner
party at Oak Lea, the Low Country home of Liz Tucker, who is your hostess
for this very special visit to the South.
Regal Castile
“Castile: The
Regal City of Madrid and
its Environs”
April
21-30, 2002
Visit the land of El Greco, Goya, and Picasso on an eight-day trip to Spain with noted art historian Peter Lauritzen of Venice as your host and lecturer. Your home base will be the luxurious
Hotel Ritz in Madrid, highly rated by Condé Nast Traveler and Michelin.
In Toledo, you’ll see El Greco’s masterpiece The Burial of Count Orgaz at the
Cathedral of the Church of Santo Tome [ACCENT OVER “E”] and the private collection of
the Duke of Bailen during a visit to his home. In Segovia, you’ll dine at El Jardincillo, the private home
and historic garden of Sr. and Sra. Jose Pazos.
However, the majority of your
trip will be spent in Spain’s capital city of Madrid, where you’ll stroll its grand plazas; tour its Prado Museum; lunch at its chic
restaurants; and visit the private homes of some of its most prominent
citizens.
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