Robert Motherwell lithograph donated by Kenneth and Marabeth Tyler

Art world luster has been added to upcoming benefit performance, thanks to the generosity of Kenneth and Marabeth Tyler. After agreeing to host a reception with the Herrmanns at their home in Sharon, they added to the intrigue of the evening by donating a limited edition, handmade, hand-colored lithograph by Robert Motherwell. Their home features an extraordinary and extensive art collection, and at the close of the reception one lucky person will walk out with “Hollow Man’s Cave”, housed in a museum-quality white gold leaf frame and currently valued at $8,500.

Kenneth Tyler, a prominent figure in the American post-war revival of fine art printmaking is a printer/publisher and arts educator. From 1974-2004 he ran Tyler Graphics Ltd., which included a gallery space, paper mill, and facilities for all fine art printmaking media. You can visit www.nga.gov.au/tyler to see his vast archive collection which showcases Mr. Tyler’s collaborations with David Hockney, Jasper Johns, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, James Rosenquist, Frank Stella and Andy Warhol, to name a few.

Click Here for a full story on Ken Tyler in the Litchfield County Times.

"Hollow Man's Cave" can be viewed at the White Gallery, 342 Main Street in Lakeville, CT. It's open weekends from 11 - 4pm, but you can't miss it just by driving by the Gallery in Lakeville. Even if you are not a fan of abstract art, you can't help but be dazzled by this incredible piece of art. It is housed in a museum-quality, white gold leaf frame and Mothrwell created it in collaboration with Ken Tyler as part of a series of larger-scale prints first "painted" with colored pulps and dyes in the Tyler Graphics Ltd paper mill onto wet, newly formed handmade paper, and then over-painted in lithography. "Hollow Man's Cave" radiates luminosity, as daylight seen from the dark confines of a cave.

Ed and Star Herrmann in Love Letters at TriArts

TriArts Sharon Playhouse is pleased to announce a special benefit performance of A.R. Gurney’s “Love Letters” at the Bok Gallery at TriArts over Thanksgiving Weekend. Edward Herrmann and his wife Star Herrmann will star in this poignant two-person play.

Mr. Herrmann performed in the show on Broadway in 1989, where he was paired with Jane Curtin. The play centers on the two characters, sitting side by side and reading the notes, letters and cards that have passed between them throughout their separated lives and over a 50 year period. The Pulitzer Prize nominated drama explores their hopes and ambitions, dreams and disappointments, victories and defeats.

Edward Herrmann, long considered “an actor’s actor”, due to a prolific career on stage and screen has been seen as FDR in Eleanor and Franklin, Richard Gilmore in the Gilmore Girls, and numerous movies including The Purple Rose of Cairo, The Lost Boys, Annie, The Great Gatsby among many others. In addition to Love Letters, Broadway credits include Plenty and The Philadelphia Story. His voice is heard regularly on the History Channel. Star Herrmann, a 35 year veteran of stage, TV, film, commercials and voice-over, most recently performed at the Music Hall Center in Ancestral Voices with Elaine Stritch. If you were lucky, you caught her hilarious performance in Divas Do It All, singing “The Grass Is Always Greener”.

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Love Letters will be performed at the TriArts’ Bok Gallery in Sharon on November 27 and 28 (Friday and Saturday) at 5pm.

Friday night benefit performance is $150 and includes reception with the Herrmanns at Kenneth and Marabeth Tyler's Sharon home, as well as entry in a drawing for a Robert Motherwell lithograph generously donated by the Tylers. For $250 you will receive four entries into the drawing and priority seating.

Saturday night, performance only, is $50 per ticket.

Seating in the Bok Gallery is limited.

Call the TriArts Box Office at 860-364-7469 (364-SHOW) or visit www.triarts.net.

WHDD Radio Interview

Click Here to listen to an interview with Marshall Miles on WHDD with Ken Tyler, Michael Berkeley and Alice Bemand.