Art at the Table: The Lotos Club State Dinner Tradition

(Hardback)

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Founded in New York City in 1870, The Lotos Club is one of the oldest literary and arts clubs in the United States. Lotos became known for its tradition of honouring outstanding men and women from all walks of life with testimonial 'State Dinners', especially after it began to commemorate these occasions with unique souvenir menus designed by artists and illustrators of the day. Art at the Table is a lavishly illustrated retrospective of the Club's 150-year-old-tradition, featuring the art of the menus and the stories behind them. American culture and history are chronicled in these ftes, from Gilbert and Sullivan and Mark Twain to aviator Amelia Earhart and author Tom Wolfe.

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Since 1872, New York's Lotos Club, a literature and arts organization founded in 1870 that occupies a townhouse on East 66th Street, has regularly held banquets to honor notables in the arts, government, science, entertainment, sports and the business world... It's all documented in 'Art at the Table, ' a lavish new book that describes around 120 of the 439 dinners that have been held through 2019.-- "The New York Times"

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A native of Chicago's south side, Nancy Johnson is Senior Manager of Brand Communications and Writing for the College of American Pathologists, the world's largest association of board-certified pathologists. For more than a decade, she worked as an Emmy-nominated, award-winning television journalist at CBS and ABC affiliates in markets nationwide from Tampa Bay, FL, to Madison, WI. Her work has appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine and has been supported by Tin House, Kimbilio Fiction, and the Hurston-Wright Foundation. She blogs regularly for Writer Unboxed and leads panel discussions on writing and publishing. A graduate of Northwestern University and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Nancy lives in downtown Chicago. The Kindest Lie is her first book. J. Robert Moskin, the Lotos Club Historian, is a veteran journalist and author.