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1938

Women Artists
Open Show,Get
$1,300 Prizes

12 Awards Made at Exhibit
of National Association
of Painters and Sculptors

Twelve prizes totaling $1,300 were awarded for painting and sculpture yesterday at the forty-seventh annual exhibition of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, which opened with a reception last night at the Fine Arts Building, 215 West Fifty-seventh Street. Work by more than 300 women artists from all parts of the country and Canada is included in the display, which will remain on view through January 21.

The first Anna Hyatt Huntington prize of $250 for sculpture went to Lu Duble, of New York, for her sculpture of a Haitian dancing girl, "Calling the Loa, Haiti." The second Huntington prize of $150 was awarded to Rosamond Sears, of West Newton, Mass., for her decorative head, "Shetland Pony," and the third Huntington award of $100 was given to Beonne Boronda, of New York, for her "Lynx."

There were seven prizes for painting, and an award each for miniature painting and watercolor, which were distributed as follows:

Celine Baekeland prize of $150 for American landscape, to Marion Gray Traver, of New York, for a winter scene, "Sunlit Morning, Vermont"; Larkin prize of $100 to Rosalind Nirenberg, of Albany, for her oil portrait, "Kenneth Harder"; Marcia Brady Tucker prize of $100 to Mary E. Hutchinson, of New York, for her figure painting, "The Duet"; Cooper prize of $100 to Loretta Howard, of Dayton, Ohio, for her landscape, "Red Barns," and Alger prize of $100 to Jane M. Allen, of Glenview, Ky., for her painting, "Market Scene, Guatemala."

Other awards were the Marjorie E. Leidy memorial prize of $100 for watercolor to Lena M. Newcastle, of New York, for "Charlestown Backyards"; Olive Noble prize of $50 for still life painting to Elise W. Bacharach, of Great Neck, L. I., for "Still Life"; Lindsey Morris Sterling prize of $50 for miniature painting to Mabel R. Welch, of New York, for "Old Actor," and Edith Penman memorial prize of $50 for flower painting to Frieda K. Fall, of Houston, Tex., for "Yucca and Beetle."

There are three galleries devoted to oil paintings and another to watercolors by the members of the association at the Fine Arts Building, including about 200 oil paintings, sixty watercolors and forty pieces of sculpture. Seventeen miniatures are shown in frames in the water gallery.

The women make favorite subjects of portraits, flowers and landscapes, but there are imaginative compositions and one or two social documents such as "Alabama Steel," with Negroes trekeing forlornly along a railroad track, which Mary Sarg has sent to the display, and "Old Man River," by Alice T. Roberts, which portrays in a large gray-colored canvas two Negro farm hands adrift on the swollen Mississippi.

General Frank McCoy of World War fame, is shown with medals and full dress cape in Leonebel Jacobs's portrait, prominent in the Vanderbilt gallery. In the same room is "Sunday Funnies," by Lena Gurr, a picture of a dutiful father reading to his children on a park bench. The youngest of all the exhibitors is Nelda M. Audibert, nineteen years old, of New York and Geneva, Switzerland, whose picturesque watercolor of Italian barges represents a conservative contrast with several abstract landscapes in the watercolor room.

Lu Duble, who won the first sculpture prize, is an instructor at the Dalton School. She has established sculpture classes at the Montclair Museum and at the Brearley School, and last year won the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for sculpture. Miss Duble passed a year in Haiti recently studying the native life and customs which she incorporates in her work. "Calling the Loa" was inspired by the religious ceremonials, and shows a woman native beating a drum and sounding a plaintive call.

The jury of awards for the exhibition consisted of Ruth Starr Rose, Ethel Blanchard Collver, Thelma Codlipp Grosvenor Whitman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Minnetta Good, Charlotte Kudlich Lermont, Mary Cheney Platt, Brenda Putnam, Eleanor M. Mellon and Cornelia Van A. Chapin. Jessie A. Stagg is president of the association.

$1,300 PRIZES GIVEN
TO WOMEN ARTISTS

Lu Duble of This City Wins
$250 Award for Sculpture -
Rosamond Sears Second

EXHIBITION OPENS TODAY
300 Paintings and Other Works on View - Many States
Represented in Show

Art prizes totaling $1,300 were awarded yesterday at the forty-seventh annual exhibition of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, which will be opened to the public today at the American Fine Arts Galleries, 215 West Fifty-seventh Street.

Some 800 members of the association in several States submitted paintings or sculpture for the show. Out of these a committee of selection picked more than 300, which will be on view through Jan. 21.

The jury of awards gave the first Anna Hyatt Huntington Prize of $250 for sculpture to Lu Duble of this city for the sculpture "Calling the Loa, Haiti." The second Anna Hyatt Huntington Prize of $150 for sculpture went to Rosamond Sears of Weston, Mass., for "Shetland Pony." Beonne Boronda of this city won with her sculpture, "Lynx," the third Anna Hyatt Huntington Prize of $100.

Another New York artist, Marion Gray Traver, won the Celine Baekeland Prize of $150 for a conservative American landscape with her canvas called "Silent Sunlit Morning, Vermont."

The Larkin Prize of $100 went to Rosalind Nirenberg of Albany for her oil painting "Kenneth Harder." Mary E. Hutchinson of this city won with her oil painting "The Duet," the Marcia Brady Tucker Prize of $100. The Cooper Prize of $100 went to Loretta Howard of Dayton, Ohio, for her oil painting "Red Barns." Jane M. Allen of Glenview, Ky., received the Alger Prize of $100 for her oil painting "Guatemala."

The Marjorie E. Leidy Memorial Prize of $100 for a water-color was awarded to Lena M. Newcastle of this city for "Charlestown Backyards." Elise W. Bacharach of Great Neck received the Olive Noble Prize of $50 for still-life painting. Mabel R. Welch of this city received the Lindsey Morris Sterling Prize of $50 for a miniature with her portrait "The Old Actor." The Edith Penman Memorial Prize of $50 for flower painting went to Frieda K. Fall of Houston, Texas, for her "Yucca and Beetle."

The prizes were awarded by a jury consisting of Ruth Starr Rose, chairman; Ethel Blanchard Colver, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Minetta Good, Charlotte K. Lermont, Mary Cheney Platt, Brenda Putnam, Eleanor M. Mellon and Cornelia Van A. Chapin.

The exhibition will be open to the public daily from 10 A. M. to 6 P. M., and on Sundays from 1:30 to 6 P. M. On Mondays the admission fee of 25 cents will not be charged.

NEW YORK, N. Y. EVENING POST
JAN 8 - 1938

Women Artists
Present 47th Annual Show

Distributing twelve prizes totaling $1,300, the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors has opened its forty-seventh annual exhibition in the American Fine Arts Building. Several hundred of the thousand members participate.

Of the prize winners, Mary E. Hutchinson's "Duet," given the $100 tucker award, seems to me the most deserving. The sculpture awards are less than fortunate, the first Huntington prize of $250 going to Lu Duble's superficially streamlined Haitian dancer and the second of $150 to Rosamond Sears for her cube-cut "Shetland Pony" - my idea of the phoniest "modernism."

The less sensational but sounder sculptural virtues of Rose Newman's "Young Woman" are worthier of encouragement. Doris Caesar's mannerist figure is another work far superior to the prize winners.

Some paintings that stand out from the mass are Caroline Martin's fine romantic landscape, Dorothy Eisner's amusing sketch of a balloon parade and Margaret Huntington's spirited canvas of a country auction crowd, painted like a field of wildflowers.

Also to be noted are Betty Waldo Parish's sturdy farm landscape, a diverting satirical portrait by Caroline Durrieux, and the work of Frances Failing, Selma Oppenheimer, Carolyn N. Saxe, Mary Bayne Bugbird, Loretta Howard, Cornelia van A. Chapin, Stowell Le Cain Fisher and Mary H. Tannahill.

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-This is complete with the exception of the [[brackets]]. -The word 'watercolor' is hyphenated in the second article, hence the hyphen in my transcription.