ONE YEAR MEMBERSHIP TO HANCOCK SHAKER VILLAGE

Visit this fascinating slice of vanished New England culture. Membership includes invitation to re-creation of notorious gin-soaked Shaker dance parties.

MEMBERSHIP TO ERIC CARLE MUSEUM

The best local museum for kids, and often compelling for adults too--always worth a trip.

MEMBERSHIP TO THE EMILY DICKINSON MUSEUM

If you have yet to tour the home of our local poet laureate (and the equally weird and fascinating home of her brother next door), now's the chance.

4 PASSES TO WORCESTER'S ECOTARIUM

If you haven't been to Worcester's cool new science museum, now's your chance.

$50 CHEZ ALBERT GIFT CERTIFICATE

Enjoy a world class meal at one of the Valley's finest restaurants in their new spacious location.

$10 CAPTAIN CANDY GIFT CERTIFICATE

From the coolest retro candy store around, enough candy for three cavities! VALUE $10

JOHN GRILLO ORIGINAL PRINT

Wow! Maybe the finest work of art we've ever offered at the Auction! Courtesy of GN grandparent John Grillo, a major force in American abstract impressionist painting throughout the second half of the 20th century (and still active!). VALUE: $700


Blue Trees
signed in pencil: A.P.- Artist's Proof  Limited edition: #12 of 30
Year 1978
26 1/2" x 33", image size: 29 1/2" x 21 3/4"

In the 1960’s, Grillo’s paintings evolved into a series of oversize canvases primarily in a luminous yellow range that to the critics evoked the power of light and sunshine. One artist called Grillo the Renoir of Abstract Expressionism, another compared him to Rubens for his sensuality. One critic brought up Turner, while another waxed eloquently about Venetian luminosity. Exhibitions of these works appeared at the Howard Wise Gallery and the Grace Borgenicht Gallery, both in New York.