The San Francisco call., 1910-09-15
HOST OF ARTISTS
STRIVE FOR Prize
.Panama-Pacific Trademark Is
Attracting Many Into
Competition

Artists unknown and world famous
are competing on equal terms in the
trademark competition being held by
the Pacific international expo
sition company and now nearing its
final stages. No designs vii be accepted
later than October Is, and on that date
the judges will begin their work of
selection and rejection that will end a
few days later in the awarding of the
$1,000 prize for the best effort sub
mitted.
With so few restrictions on the COM
petitors free rein is given to their fancy
and the range of ideas pictured on the
designs runs from the simplest concep-
ton of the exposition and the event it
will celebrate to the most complicated
groupings One of the most popular
forms, and one ethat has taken on beau
tifully varied shapes is that of two
maidens, each representing one of the
great oceans, greeting each other
through the canal. A hundred other de-
signs of totally different concept, how
ever, have been received.
INDUCEMENTS TO ARTISTS
s One of the features of chief interest
to the artists, responsible in a large
measure for the many designs SUBJ
mitted, is the fact that the design ac-
cepted will not only appear as the ex-
position out Will De uSeQ as
the official seal, be made a part of the
official poster, will be on all stationery,
on all literature and be reproduced on
every official document. The size of
the prize, too, has been instrumental in
calling out so much talent.
The only restriction placed on the
artists fancy by the exposition commit
tee is that the words Panama Pacific
International Exposition San Fran
he iS
requirement other than that. A restric-
tion, however, is placed on the mechan-
ical features of the design in the re-
quest of the committee that, in order
to give universal size to the draw
ings and paintings submitted, none be
made more than 2 inches square. The
design will be reduced to one-half inoh
size when placed on exposition buttons.
Every detail of the design. of course,
must be worked out, and the color
scheme. as in all contests of this char
acter. attached. Some of the schemes
already in are most beautiful in color
combination. and planned and executed
with the greatest care.
NoNPARTISAN CONTEST
In order that the committee mem
bers may not be swayed unwittingly
by the magic of a name famous in the
art world, they have ordered all con-
testants 10 place a distinctive mark
in their designs, and send in. with
their work, an envelope on which the
mark is reproduced, and in which their
full names and addresses are given.
In this way the identity of the winning
artist will not be known to any one
until the committee has selected the
work it believes the most artistic,
the most appropriate and the most
practical. Then the envelope attached
to the design will be opened and the
artist notified of his success.
The committee has made the prize so
large in order to make 1t worth the
time and talents of the most successful
artists, both local and foreign, to com
pete; but. with the plan for Judging
the designs, the least known draughts-
man in the smallest town has an equal
chance, so far as reputation goes, with
his greatest colleague. The poster de-
sign contest held prior to the Portola
festival here was judged under like
conditions, and a local artist. Randall
Borough won the prize. AS the award
in this instance is 10 times that of
fered for the Portola poster, however,
a much greater array of talent will be
presented, though local man may well
be victorious again.