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Sylvia Davis Patricelli Fine Arts Scholarship Foundation
Is Now a 501(C)3 Non-profit Charity
The Sylvia Davis Patricelli Fine Arts Foundation which has been a sponsor of a Granby high school scholarship for a graduating student pursuing a post-secondary education in the creative arts since 2018, has now been recognized as an IRS 501C3 charity. This has now established the foundation as a non-profit that recognizes donations made by individuals, grants or corporations as tax deductible contributions.
Mrs. Patricelli was an internationally acclaimed portrait artist from Sydney, Australia whose first exhibition in the U.S. was opend by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and sponsored by the Wadsworth Atheneum, WTIC and G.Fox & Company in Hartford at Centinel Hill Hall. Among the notable portraits completed from life by Sylvia was Eleanor Roosevelt and Beatrice Fox Auerback and from photograph Genera Douglas MacArthur. See www.sylviadavisart.org to hear Mrs. Roosevelt's speech at the opening of the exhibit.
Contact Susan Patricelli Regan at sdpregan@gmail.com for further information.