“And … Guess what?” said Norman Crump, “We love a party almost as much as we appreciate our customers' support, so we decided to do it again.”

     “That’s right,” said his partner Dan McCole, “Another Open House on Thursday evening, Dec. 22, from 5 to 8. We shall have music, caroling, refreshments, good friends … and great art. And we encourage attendance of able and willing art collectors and peeps who want to hang a few nice prints beside, and under, their Christmas Trees.”

     “This Open House will offer us another chance to wish all a Merry Christmas and will be geared to our male customers who like to wait ‘til the last minute and go on a buying-spree panic,” said Crump.

     “But that doesn’t mean we will exclude the women-folk,” said McCole. “We are an equal-op biz, and we encourage this kind of mixed gathering.”

     Pianist Peter Golemme will provide the Christmas music. He will play excerpts from his great selling CD ‘A Modal Christmas’.

     The partners said it will be a great time to pick up last minute gifts of fine affordable art.

     “And we will not refuse any reasonable, bona fide offer for any of the originals or fine reproduction Giclee prints in our gallery,” said the partners.

     In another announcement the Gallery will present watercolorist Dan McCole as guest artist during the regular Thursday Night Art Talks, December 15. The session will be held from 6 to 8 p.m.

     The Crump McCole Gallery is located at 200 Seaport Boulevard, directly across the street from the Seaport Hotel, at the World Trade Center. Telephone: (617) 330-1133.