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THE NEW YORK TIMES, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16,

LANDSCAPE TAKES $500 ALTMAN PRIZE

Antonio Martino's Painting 'Tower Street,' a Winner in National Academy Show

PAUL CLEMENS HONORED

His 'Rainy Day" Also a 'First' - 117th Annual Exhibition Will Open Tomorrow

By EDWARD ALDEN JEWELL

Following its annual meeting, which was held last night, the National Academy has scheduled for this afternoon the preview of the 117th annual exhibition, installed in the galleries at 1083 Fifth Avenue (between Eighty-ninth and Ninetieth Streets). The exhibition, which opens to the public tomorrow, will continue until March 9.

Filling all of the academy's rooms, it contains 447 items: 248 paintings, 72 pieces of sculpture and 127 prints and drawings. So many meritorious prints were submitted that the jury, headed by John Taylor Arms, decided to admit twice the number just indicated and to keep the first installment on view for a fortnight, exhibiting the remainder through the last two weeks.

Hobart Nichols, president, announces in the catalogue that despite the fact that many members "have put aside their profession for the duration" and are serving either in the armed forces or in defense jobs, the National Academy "is determined to carry on its historic tradition and help continue, through this trying period, the cultural integrity for which we are all fighting."

Three Hallgarten Prizes

Prizes have been awarded as usual. Leading in monetary value are the Altman prizes, both of them "firsts" and both $500, which the jury on painting gave to a landscape, "Tower Street," by Antonio Martino, N.A. (elect), and to "Rainy Day," a figure theme, by Paul Clemens. There are three Hallgarten prizes, the first $100, the second $75 and the third $50. These were awarded, respectively, to Greta Matson's portrait of a boy, "Pat"; "Rocky Neck" by Henry Gasser and a still-life by Tosca Olinsky.

Other painting awards were as follows: The S.J. Wallace Truman Prize of $300 to a landscape, "Palmerton Pa.," by Franz Kline; the Edwin Palmer Memorial Prize of $275 to a marine, "Mariehamn Harbor," by True Bengtz; the Carnegie Prize of $200 to "Crows," by Furman Joseph Finck; the Adolph and Clara Obrig Prize of $150 to the large, familiar figure subject called "The Household," by Leon Kroll, N.A.; the Thomas R. Proctor Prize of $100 to a portrait of Dr. George R. Minot by Charles Hopkinson, N.A.; the Isaac N. Maynard Prize of $25 to "Deborah in Costume," by Gene Alden Walker, and the Saltus Medal for Merit to Kenneth Hayes Miller's small canvas, "Hager." Mr. Miller is an A.N.A. (elect).

Two With Same Title

Three sculptors were honored: Mary Rand Birch for an animal theme, "De Profundis," which received the Ellen P. Speyer Memorial Prize of $250; Marion Sanford for a figure subject with, oddly enough, the same title (this took the Elizabeth N. Watrous Gold Medal), and Walter Addison, whose "Markhor" receive the Helen Foster Barnett Prize of $100.

The jury of award for painting included Karl Anderson, N.A.; Gifford Beal, N.A.; Roy Brown, N.A.; Jon Corbino, N.A., and Eugene Higgins, N.A. Those responsible for distribution of the sculpture awards were John Flanagan, N.A.; James Earle Fraser, N.A., and Edward McCartan, N.A.

Louis Betts was chairman of the jury of selection for the painting section and C. Paul Jennewein, N.A., headed the sculpture jury. The exhibition was installed by George Elmer Browne, N.A.; Alphaeus P. Cole, N.A.; and Leopold Seyffert, N.A.

Most of the sculptural works are on a small scale, the smallest of all being Cleo Hartwig's "Flea," perched on the mantle of the paneled room on the second floor. The painting section is characterized, for one thing, by wide variety, with respect both to style and to subject.


A FIRST-PRIZE WINNER AT NATIONAL ACADEMY'S 117TH ANNUAL EXHIBITION
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Artists Win High Honors Of Academy

Word has just been received here of distinct honors paid the work of two Warren artists, Gene Alden Walker and Marion Sanford, currently in New York and both represented in the annual midwinter exhibit of the National Academy of Design.

Two portrait entries are permitted by each artist invited to exhibit but only one is chosen for showing. Miss Walker's "Deborah in Costume", done last summer at Cape Cod, was awarded the Isaac N. Maynard Portrait Prize as "one of the two best pictures in the show", competing with 3,000 entries.

Miss Sanford received the Elizabeth N. Watrous Gold Medal award for her piece of sculpture.

It will please Miss Sanford's friends to learn that she is soon to have the privilege of presenting a one-man show in New York, the date and place to be announced very soon.

TIMES-MIRROR - FEB '43