Photo Gallery
Year after year, whether it’s the threat of rain or the line to enter, all is made beautiful when we walk through the entrance to the annual Watermill Center Summer Benefit & Auction and become part of the overwhelmingly stunning tableau that envelopes us. It’s the vision of founder Robert Wilson, who greeted every single one of the 1,200 guests, often with an embrace.

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Above the entrance

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Barbara Slifka and Michael Tannen

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Bernt Heilberg and William Cummings

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Campion and Tatiana Platt and family

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Carolina Sarria, Anastasiya Siro, and Bianca Allenwas

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Chioma Nnadi and Lynn Yaeger

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Christophe de Menil, Rugh Vered, and guest

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Christophe de Menil

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Leah Lane

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Jonathan McCann and guest

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Bridgett Marks

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EY Seidenfeld and Robert Seidenfeld

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Joanne DiGuardiola

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Susan Levinn and Robert Downey Jr.

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Jonathan Farkas and Somers Farkas

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Jack Elkins and Shamin Abas

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The installations that dot the forest trail delight attendees

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David Shing, Lia Chavez, and Ocean

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The entrance to Watermill Center

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Fern Mallis and Bibhu Mohapatra

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George and Joan Hornig

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Honoree Isabelle Huppert

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Jean Shafiroff

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Jean Shfiroff, Bibhu Mohapatra, and Fern Mallis

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JiaJia Fei and guest

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Judith and Rudy Giuliani

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Kim Heirston-Evans

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Lucia Hwong-Gordon

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Margarita and Jim Trushina

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Nelson Gellrich and Robert Wilson

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Parker and Clayton Calvert

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Ricardo Nelson, Jack Waters, Peter Cramer, and Stephen Kent Jusick

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Roger Ferris and guest

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Sarah Herbert Galloway

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Steward Lane and Bonnie Comley

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Sue Felcher and Steve Felcher

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Sydney Curley, Nicole Miller, and Palmer Taipale

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Ulrich Schrough and Stefan Hillebrand