Vesalius Trust Auction and Cocktail Reception at the Museum of Science

SILENT AUCTION
Opens: Saturday, August 5, 2006 at 6pm

LIVE AUCTION - Saturday, August 5, 2006 at 8pm

The annual Vesalius Trust Auction will be held this year in the Blue Wing of the Boston Museum of Science. Participants will have access to the Museum's regular exhibits while they dine and bid on items.

The evening will include a private screening of the new IMAX movie, Wired to Win: Surviving the Tour de France, featuring computer-generated sequences created by AMI members Rob Flewell and Ron Mathias.

Proceeds from the raffle, silent auction and live auction (featuring the spirited and highly-competitive, school-designed T-shirt auction) will go toward funding the Vesalius Trust's numerous scholarships and events.

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Auction Details

Here are some of the items that will be featured in this year's auction:


  • Purchased at the Dallas '89 auction: "The anatomy of the brain" by Willis Vol I thru III, and "Hand Atlas of Human Anatomy", Werner Spalteholz (originally owned by Bill Stenstrom).

  • Two framed pieces from the 1991 Charter Collection (believed to have been pieces Janis AtLee won in a raffle, and that she subsequently donated back to the Trust): One is a Russell Drake mesentery and the other is a Muriel McLatchie Miller dog dissection. Stu will be sending me scans of these for publicity purposes.

  • David Mascaro has graciously agreed to do a custom portrait in oils.



  • Alice Katz's Portrait, painted by Perrin Sparks at the 2005 Annual Conference in Thousand Oaks, CA.



  • Heart Art: The Vesalius Trust asked about 2 dozen medical illustrators to prepare a small signed works of art of the human heart. Each heart image is an 8 inch by 8 inch original painting, drawing, doodle, cartoon, etc. (black & white or color) that will then be framed up with others as composite groups. The rendering technique was completely up to each of the artists. The Veslaius Trust will make up several of these large framed composites (each approximately 16" x 24") for auction at the upcoming AMI meeting in August. Proceeds will go to the Vesalius Trust scholarship fund for the students. Click here to see details


  • "The Aerobics Class," stillife by David Mascaro, framed




  • "Ubiquitin Molecule," molecular painting by David Goodsell, framed




  • "Peritoneal Incision," sketch by Russell Drake, donated by Bob Benassi, framed




  • "Malignant Nephrosclerosis" by Mel Dedrick, donated by John Nyquist, framed.



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