Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-19
BARNARD KARF|OL :
WINS ART AWARD
Painting Summer" Gets
First Prize in Exhibition to
Open at Corcoran Sunday.

Barnard Karfiol has won the first
prize in the eleventh Exhibition of Con-
temporary American Oil Paintings
which will open Sunday, october 20, at
the Corcoran Gallery of Art. and Eli
remain on display through SuEcaSs. rs
cember q
This award, which has Just been an
nounced by the professional jury OF
American painters, carries with it the
first William A. Clark prize of So 600,
together with the Corcoran gold medal.
Mr. Karfiol won it with painting en-
titled Summer"
The second William Clark prize of
$1,000, accompanied by the Corcoran
silver medal, went to Eugene Speicher
on his picture entitled Girl in White
Dress"
Frederick Carl Friesecks's painting
entitled Frances" won the third Clark
prize, of $1,000, accompanied by the
Corcoran bronze medal.
landscape by Henry Lee McFee
obtained the fourth Clark prize of $500.
with which goes the Corcoran honor
able mention certificate.
The cash prizes, which aggregate
$4,000 are part of the gallery's in
come derived from the gift by the late
Senator William A. Clark of Sl00 O10
donated Tor the purpose of perpctuating
them.
The professional Jury of award, all
the members of which are among the
most distinguished of present-day
American PAINTERS, has been at work
the past several days Judging the en-
trants in the exhibition. In all. 345
paintings were selected by them to
compose the display. The iurymen arc
Charles w Hawthorne of Province
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| derson of West port. Conn. and New
| York; Ernest l.. Blumenschein of Taos.
| N. Mex: Adolph Borie of Philadelphia.
and Aldro r. Hubbard of Boston, Mass
| Resident of New York.
! Bernard Karfiol. winner of the first
| prize. is a resident of New York City
and is not only painter. but also an
| etcher. sculptor, craftsman and teacher.
| Born in 1885, he belongs to the young
| err generation of American painters
/ and is already we'll known. He won an
| honorable mention in the twenty-sixth
| International exhibition of the Car
negie Institute, Pittsburgh. His prize
| picture in the forthcoming exhibition
here is three figure composition, the
subjects being in Summer dress, with
landscape background.
Eugene Speicher. second prize winner
lives in New York and In Woodstock.
N. Y. He was born in 1888 and studied
in Buffalo and New York as we'll as
abroad. He has already won eight i'm
portant art awards between the years
I 1911 and 1926. when he was given the
Potter-Palmer gold medal by the Art
Institute of Chicago. He is represented
in most of the larger art galleries of
this country.
Friesecke Lives in France.
Frederick Carl Friesecke was born in
Michigan in 1874 and now resides in
France. He studied his profession at
the Chicago Art Institute, in the Art
Students League of New York and in
Paris with such eminent men as Con-
slant. Laurens and Whistler. He also
has already been awarded eight impor-
tant prizes. his first being at the St.
Louis Exposition in 1904. In 1908 he
was given the fourth W. A. Clark prize
at the Corcoran biennial exhibition held
here in that year. and in 1915 he won
the grand prize at the Panama-Pacifc
! Exposition.
Henry Lee McFee, fourth prize win
ner, was born in st. Louis, Mo-. in 1886
and now resides at Woodstock, Ulster
County. N. Y. where he paints and
teaches painting. He is a member of
the new Society of Artists and Modern
Artists of America.