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Enquirer, Cincinnati, Saturday, June 1915

World's Highest Art Award Is Conferred on Cincinnatian

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Frank Duveneck 

Special Dispatch to the Enquirer

San Francisco, Cal., June 18. - That the world's grand prix in art will go to an American is an announcement which was confirmed to-day on the eve of departure of Frank Duveneck, of Cincinnati, upon whom this great honor has been conferred.

Since the first meeting of the jury of awards some weeks ago to the Palace of Fine Arts, of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, interest and speculation have filled the mind of the local art world. So many men of note from Europe and the United States have splendid work on display in the Fine Arts Palace. It seemed impossible to guess where the prize would fall. Duveneck, however is the unanimous choice of the jury, and to those who not only know and appreciate art, but who realized the strength and feeling of Duveneck's work, the verdict will not come as a surprise. The concurrence of 45 men establishes this artist in the envy of the world of art.

Duveneck's duties calling him Eastward at once, the announcement was made to him a short time ago at a banquet which, though informal, was called a the request of John E.D. Trask, Commissioner of the Fine Arts Department of the Exposition. Alden Weir, Chairman of the American Section of Art, was one of the most enthusiastic of those present concerning the high qualities of Duveneck.

John Sargent, the renowned portrait painter, is an address nearly 20 years ago in London, said: "the finest talent of the brush of this (the nineteenth) century is Frank Duveneck," the tribute excepting no country or school. Duveneck, with his daughter, Miss Mary C. Duveneck, left to-day for Gloucester, Mass., where he conducts summer classes for renowned artists, who make their pilgrimage each year for instruction.