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THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1959.

HIGH ART AWARD GOES TO NOGUCHI

Sculptor Wins Logan Medal as First Prize at 63d Exhibition in Chicago

Special to The New York Times. 

CHICAGO, Dec. 1 - A sculptor won first prize in the sixty-third American Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture that opens tomorrow at the Art Institute of Chicago. 
  
The Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Art Institute Medal, carrying with it a cash award of $2,000 as well as the prestige of one of the most respected art awards in the country, was given to Isamu Noguchi for a cast-iron sculpture, "The Self." The jury of awards comprised a painter, Robert Motherwell; a museum director, Otto Wittman Jr. of the Toledo Museum of Art, and a critic, Alfred Frankenstein of The San Francisco Chronicle. 
  
The jury awarded a second Logan medal, with $1,000 in cash, to another sculptor, Louise Nevelson, for her wood "Construction in Three Sections." The Logan awards may be given for either painting for sculpture.
  
Two $1,500 painting prizes, the Ada S. Garrett Prize and the Flora Mayer Witkowsky Prize, went respectively to Joseph Cornell for a surrealist collage called "Orion" and to Hans Hofmann for an abstract oil, "The Pond."
  
Other prizes were the Norman Wait Harris Silver Medal and Prize of $1,000 for a painting, to Franz Kline for an untitled work; the Flora Mayer Witkowsky Prize of $750 for an oil painting, to Philip Guston for "The Street;" the Norman Wait Harris Bronze Medal and Prize of $500 for a painting, to Nathan Oliveira's "For Manolete"; the M. V. Kohnstamm Prize of $500 for a painting, to Andrew Wyeth for a watercolor, "The Boot," and the Martin B. Cahn Prize of $500 for a painting by a Chicago artist, to Joyce Treiman for her "Homage to Rodin."
  
The relatively small exhibition consists of work by forty-six artists who are represented by a total of 136 paintings and pieces of sculpture.  The artists and the examples of their work were selected not through competition but by Katharine Kuh, former curator of painting and sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago, and Frederick Sweet, the institute's present curator.  
  
The exhibition will remain on view through January.