Bard Breakfast 2011
BARD BIRTHDAY BREAKFAST BENEFIT Wednesday, December 14, 2011 8:30 to 10:00am
Preservation Martyr, Archival Triumph: The Legacies of Richard Nickel, Adler & Sullivan, and the Richard Nickel Committee
Please save the date for the New York Preservation Archive Project's Eighth Annual Bard Birthday Breakfast Benefit on December 14th! Joining us this year is Ward Miller, executive director of the Richard Nickel Committee and Archive, who will speak on the photographic work of Richard Nickel, the foundation of the committee and archive, and the archival research undertaken to produce his monumental new publication The Complete Architecture of Adler & Sullivan. Introducing Mr. Miller will be David Garrard Lowe, president of the Beaux Arts Alliance and another great advocate for the lost architecture of Chicago.
Richard Nickel was an American photographer and historian who devoted his life to documenting and preserving the buildings of Louis Sullivan, many of which were in the process of being demolished in the name of urban renewal. Nickel was killed in 1972 when a stairwell collapsed on him while salvaging ornamentation from the Chicago Stock Exchange Building. The Richard Nickel Committee and Archive administers an extensive collection of 15,000 negatives by Nickel, which along with photographs, historic research files and Nickel's personal library of books, was recently donated to The Art Institute of Chicago, where they will be available to researchers, scholars and individuals interested in Chicago's rich architectural heritage in perpetuity.
Tickets are available now! Purchase tickets through PayPal below, or just send a check to our office at 174 East 80th Street, New York, NY 10075. And please feel free to call 212-988-8379 or email mcoody@nypap.org with any questions!