Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-21
A D E IRED PRIZE
Competitors for the Corcoran Art School
Gold Medal.
The Judges to Make Selection Tomor-
row-The Committee a Strong One
Difficult to Choose.

During the past two or three days the
Corcoran Art School has been in a state of
complete decentralization, and, among the
students, of the most intense excitement.
the very unusual state of affairs being
caused by active preparations which have
been going forward for the annual exhi-
bition of work accomplished by students
during the year and the competition for the
Corcoran gold medal, which is conferred
each year upon the exhibitor of the best
series of drawings.
This year the contest has been unusually
keen, and the fortunate winner of the
prize may well feel honored by the dis
tinction conferred upon her artistic labor.
The competitors are Miss Baker, the Prin-
cess Cantacuzene, Miss Smith, Miss Gar
rigues, Miss Hanson. Miss Loughborough,
Miss Rodney, Miss Shoenborn, Miss Light
foot, Miss Hunt Miss Finney, Miss Snyder,
Miss Simms and Miss Henderson. Each
of the young ladies named has prepared
six drawings Three from the nude and
three from the antique. a very noticeable
feature in all the work is the great improve
ment over any previous collection OF stud
les shown by the school, each group dis
playing clearness of artistic perception, di-
rectness of aim and an unlimited amount
of intelligent and conscientious applica-
ton. The drawings have all been arranged,
and Mr.. J. Carol Beckwith of the Art
Students League in New York and Mr.. e.
Nj. Ward of the Academy of Design will
enter upon the difficult and delicate task
of selecting from the eighty-four studie s
the group which they consider entitled to
the honor of receiving the gold medal The
second in excellence will receive the bronze
medal and the next three will receive hon
orable mention. .-e.+ ~
The committee of award has been selected
with great care, and is composed of three
artists. whose names are familiar in almost
every household.
The Judges.
Mr.. Chase comes to Washinton on this oc-
casion for the first time. He is one of our
most representative and thorough artists.
and is very justly celebrated for his eX-
quisite taste and discriminating judgment
in all things pertaining to art not only in
his own work, but in his criticisms.
Mr.. Beckwith was one of the favored
pupils of Carolus Durand, and his splendid
draughtsmanship and brilliant yet subtle
coloring have placed him in the foremost
ranks of modern painters.
Mr.. Ward is the brother of Mr.. j. Q. A.
Ward, the designer and sculptor of the
Thomas statue. He is widely known as a
genre painter, of which difficult subject he
is most successful interpreter. y. ~.
To insure strict impartialty all members
of the awarding committee are selected
from nonresident artists, and the COM
petitors represented alphabetically, the
curator of the gallery holding the list of
names, with their representative letter.
When the medal drawings have been decid-
ed upon by the committee of artists, note
is made of the letter attached to those
drawings. and after being placed in a
sealed envelope is handed to DIR. yelling
of the Columbian University.
At 4:30 tomorrow afternoon this envelope
will be opened in the presence of the stu
dents, their friends and invited guests, and
the contents compared with the before-men-
toned list, and the name of the greatly To
be congratulated winners announced. %.
The school will remain open to students
until July l. after which it will be closed
until September.