Hats Off to Lady Ridley-Tree

A group donning Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree’s elegant hats visited the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art to honor their late friend on March 21. Hiroko Benko, Brenda Blalock, Chris Frisina, Mary Gates, Erin Graffy, Bobbie Kinnear, Nan Marr, Joyce Shaar, and Grace Yoon toured Ridley-Tree’s entire collection of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot that she gave to the museum.

Judy L. Larson, Askew professor of art history and museum director, offered the group a personal tour of the exhibition that paid tribute to the memory of Leslie, who died in October 2022 at 98. The women shared stories about Ridley-Tree and posed near Bo Bartlett’s large portrait of Leslie and her husband, Lord Paul Ridley-Tree.