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THE FORD FOUNDATION
477 Madison Avenue 
New York 22, New York

Program for Painters, Sculptors and Related Artists (e.g., Printmakers)

The Foundation has sent letters to several hundred hundred artists, museum directors, critics, members of college and university art departments and of independent art schools throughout the country asking them to nominate American artists (United States citizens) for ten awards of $10,000 each. Direct applications by individual candidates will not be accepted by the Foundation. To be eligible for nomination artists must be 35 years of age or older and at a stage in their careers when time in which to concentrate upon their work would conceivably promote significant artistic creations. 

Recommendations will be made by panels of jurors composed chiefly of artists who have been appointed as consultants by the Foundation. In making their recommendations to the Foundation the final panel will be governed solely by the criterion of merit in the first instance, but each candidate's need for outside assistance will be considered by the 
Foundation before the ten awards are made.  It is the Foundation's hope that these awards will enable artists to concentrate upon their work for a period of at least one year.

The closing date for the receipt of nominations by the Ford Foundation is September 25, 1958. In November selected nominees will be asked to send examples (no more than five) of their work to one of twelve regional museum or other centers which have agreed to participate in the Foundation program. At each of these centers regional panelists, joined by representatives of a small national jury, will view the work and recommend artists for final consideration.