NEW YORK, NY.- Prominent painter Sylvia Sleigh, noted for her feminist portrait genre painting, died, at age 94, on Sunday, October 24. Several panels of her most ambitious work, a panorama titled Invitation to a Voyage: the Hudson River at Fishkill, 1979 -99, is now on view at the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers. In July 2006, Ms. Sleigh made one of the most significant gifts of art to a museum, when she donated the work to the Hudson River Museum. Its 14 panels, which stretch to a length 70 feet, depict a summer gathering of friends similar to scenes of pastoral gatherings by the 18th-century French painter Jean Antoine Watteau. Invitation to a Voyage was inspired by a train trip to Albany, where Sleigh was impressed by the beauty of the river and Bannerman’s Castle on Pollopel Island. She divided the work into the “Riverside” panels, which represent her ambition as a seminal figure in the feminist art movement and, the “Woodside