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Painting Patriots | 9.20.25
Sep
20

Painting Patriots | 9.20.25

Points for Patriots Presents

Painting Patriots

In Honor of the Anniversary of 9/11

Spring Lake, NJ | 5-7pm | September 20

Featuring Bill Melvin, Aviation Artist

Wine | Cheese | Art Show | Patriotism

Kelly-McKenna Gallery

1308 3rd Ave #1A, Spring Lake, NJ 07762

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Featured Artist Bill Melvin

Bill Melvin, Professional Illustrator

William (“Bill”) Melvin, Jr. was born on July 15, 1929 in Cincinnati, Ohio. When he was young, he and his father, William Melvin, Sr., a paint and ladder merchant, made an annual pilgrimage to the Cleveland Air Races. It was the Golden Age of Aviation. Flying aces like Glenn Curtiss, Roscoe Turner, Wiley Post and Amelia Earhart were the rock stars of the day. Bill developed a lifelong fascination with aircraft and aviation. Too young to go off to war, he began drawing airplanes and war scenes, and building model planes.

After graduating from Withrow High School in 1947, Bill attended Cincinnati’s Central Art Academy, with a concentration on commercial art. He got his first job at 18 as an office boy at a local ad agency, where he was later promoted to the art department. In total, he spent 45 years in packaging design and lettering at various commercial art studios in his hometown. A master at the drawing board, he retired when computer graphics became the norm. Not long after, he returned to his early passion for aviation art. Since 2007, he has completed 307 watercolors of aircraft--he is currently working on #308. He is a member of the American Society of Aviation Artists.

He has had numerous showings at galleries and most recently at the Yonkers Public Library

Bill is twice a widower after marriages of 16½ and 50 years, and has five children, seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. He spent 25 years umpiring softball leagues before retiring from the game at age 86. After spending all of his first 91 years in Cincinnati, he moved to Westchester County in October of 2020 to live with his daughter Susan Thaler and her husband, Dan. After a couple of years his daughter, Nancy and son-in-law, Michael traded him with Susan every 3 months in Spring Lake,NJ.

He recently moved to Yorktown Heights Assisted living in Cortlandt Manor, NY where he still has his drawing board and art supplies set up in his apartment.

He will be having an art show in May 2025 with another artist at his residence.

He will be 96 in July with no sign of slowing down!

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Cocktail Party | 3.6.25
Mar
6

Cocktail Party | 3.6.25

Spring Cocktail Party

Celebrating Veterans & Families

New York Athletic Club

March 6, 2025 | 6-8pm

Honoring Bob Litwin, 3x World Tennis Champion

Silent Auction | Art Show | Hors d'oeuvres

Benefit Committee:

Michael Marrale (Chair); Josh Berman; JR Butler; Dan Cahill; Chuck Garcia; Joel Greenblatt; Suzanne Kingsbury; Jason Kirsch; Lowell Kwiat; Jo Ann Litwin; Dave Mack; Tomer Seifan; Seth Turkeltaub; Eric Wasserman

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Ambassadors Host Committee:

Jakob Feinstein; David Saunders; Caitlin Kelly; Baxter Stein; JT Dyer; Hasan Khan; Mike Marrale; Sunaina Swaminathan; Meredith Christopher; Monty Washington; Kelby Barnewolt; Cindy Floyd; Sam Tavel; Tyler (Mulford) McCue; Sam Folco

Honoree Bob Litwin

Bob Litwin, 3x World Champion Tennis Player & Performance Coach

Bob Litwin is one of the nation’s most decorated tennis players with 29 National titles and 3 World Championships, formerly ranked #1 in the World. Bob has spent over four decades using the New Story method to coach thousands of top athletes, coaches, Wall Street hedge funds, traders, and analysts to raise individual performance to extraordinary levels.

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