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HERALD TRIBUNE

Women Artists Open Exhibits At Reception

$1,500 in Prizes Awarded at 46th Annual Show in the Fine Arts Building

360 Works Displayed

Abstraction and Surrealism Noticeable by Absence

With a large spirited exhibition of paintings and sculpture demonstrating the capacities of American women artists from many parts of the country, the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors opened its forty-sixth annual show last night at a reception at the Fine Arts Building, 215 West Fifty-seventh Street. Earlier, a jury of award had met at the exhibition and awarded $1,500 in prizes for work of outstanding merit.

List of the Awards

The awards were:

FIRST ANNA HYATT HUNTINGTON SCULPTURE PRIZE, $230 - Sylvia Kodbanoff, of New York, for "End of Summer," an interpretative figure in marble.
SECOND ANNA HYATT HUNTINGTON SCULPTURE PRIZE, $150 - Marion Sanford, Warren, Pa., for "Diana."
THIRD ANNA HYATT HUNTINGTON SCULPTURE PRIZE, $100 - Lillian Swann, New York, for "Lions."
MARY HILLS GOODWIN PRIZE, $200 for painting - Ruth Starr Rose, Caldwell, N. J., for "Twilight Quartette."
CELINE BAEKELAND PRIZE, $150, for landscape painting - Miriam McKinnie, Edwardsville, Ill., for "The Cider Press."
LARKIN PRIZE, $100, for painting - Bianca Todd, New York, for "Clarinets."
MARCIA BRADY TUCKER PRIZE, $100, for painting - Lena Gurr, New York, for "Snowy Vistas."
DE FOREST PRIZE, $100, for painting - Ida Ten Eyck O'Keeffe, New York, for "My Table."
COOPER PRIZE, $100, for painting - Beatrice Edgerly, Trenton, N. J., for "Sunshade and Sunflowers."
MARJORIE E. LEIDY MEMORIAL PRIZE, $100, for watercolor - Frances Failing, Indianapolis, for "Llamberis Pass, Wales."
EDITH PENMAN MEMORIAL PRIZE, $50, for flower painting - Margaret Huntington, New York, for "Still Life - Gladiolus."
LINDSEY MORRIS STERLING PRIZE, $50, - Mary Aubrey Keating, San Antonio, Tex., for "Laundry."
OLIVE NOBLE PRIZE, $30, for miniature painting - Alma H. Bliss, New York, for "In Pensive Mood."

Four Galleries Are Filled

Using all available display space, the 360 exhibits fill four galleries. One large gallery is devoted to watercolors, with 110 examples by nearly as many artists. Three galleries, including the Vanderbilt gallery, are hung with 187 oil paintings and twenty-seven miniatures, small portrits [[portraits]] shown in glass display cases. In addition, there are forty-for sculptures, mostly moderately sized figures and portraits, arranged throughout the exhibition.

Scores of contributions from the large membership had to be eliminated, it was said, although the show as it stands is one of the largest held by the association. Among the prominent oils, hung where it gets the best advantage, is Ruth Starr Rose's "The Twilight Quartet," a full-length picture of four Negroes singing. Sue May Gill's large study of "Estelle Dennis," the dancer, is a striking contribution; another is Hortense Ferne's "Clown Alley," a painting of circus people making up under a tent.

Mostly Progressive in Spirit

Mostly progressive in spirit, the paintings represent life in many forms, but avoid abstraction and surrealism. The closest to fantasy is Margaretta S. Hinchman's "Girl at a Harp," which includes with the musician studies of hands in the different attitudes used in playing the instrument. In another large canvas, called "Puppet Family," Mary E. Hutchinson shows a collection of puppets stowed in a closet, the figures grotesquely tumbled about.

The exhibition was viewed last night by many members of the association and guests, including Alfred G. B. Steel, president of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, who was the guest of honor. It will go on view to the public today, continuing to February 10.