Evening star., 1943-03-02
Corcoran Ant Jury
Passing on Entries
OF $50 D. T.. Artists
Winners Will Compete
For $4,000 in Prizes
In Pointing Exhibition

One hundred and fifty artists liv-
ing in the District area waited anx-
iously today for a jury Of six men
at the Corcoran Art Gallery to de-
eide which of them will be privileged
to compete this year for the richest
art prizes in the country, offered by
the Corcoran in its 17th biennial
exhibition of contemporary Amer
lean oil paintings.
For the first time in the 36-year
history of the exhibition, transpor-
tation difficulties have forced gallery
ohlcials to permit entry of artists
from other parts of the country only
by invitation. For months the Com
mittee OF Selection and it's repre-
sentatives have been examining the
work OF artists all over the coun-
try and have finally invited about
$50 artists. to submit one picture
each.
Artists living within 25 miles of
the gallery, however, have been per-
mitted to submit one picture each
without special invitation. The
Committee OF Selection began meet
Ing this morning to decide which
OF the $50 paintings submitted by
artists in this vicinity are good
enough to be hung in the exhibition,
and included in the competition for
$4,000 worth of prizes offered from
fund donated by the late Senator
William A. Clark.
Winners to Be Picked Soon.
According to Richard Lahey
chairman Of the Committee of
Selection. Installation and Award
and principal of the Corcoran School
OF Art. the committee will select
District entries today, spend tomor-
row deciding on the arrangement of
entries in the exhibition galleries.
BY the end of the week, he said, the
winners should have been picked.
The public will first be admitted
70 the cxkssitiOn on March 81. A
private showing has been arranged
by the gallery for 3 pm. March 20.
To insure that the exhibition be
contemporary" the gallery has
permitted entry only of pictures
painted within the last two years.
The ''W. A. Clark prize awards"
include $4,000 and the Corcoran
Gold Medal, $500 and the Cor
coran Silver Medal, $1,000 and the
Corcoran Bronze Medal and $500
with the Corcoran Honorable Men
ton Certificate. In addition, the
public each week during the exhi-
bition votes for its "favorite" pic
ture and the 5000 popular award"
Is given to the artist thus selected.
Prizes Are Liberal.
According to c. Powell Mimi
gerode, director of the gallery, these
prizes are the most liberal offered
to artists in all the country"
THE eyes OF the art world are on
this committee today" he said.
Work Of all the members of the
Committee of Selection is repre-
sented in museums and in private
collections in all parts of the coun-
try. Besides Mr.. Lahey, they are
John Corbino, youngest member of
the group, q painter and sculptor,
of New York City; Jerry Farms
worth, Truro, Mass. Carnegie pro-
fessor Of art at Illinois University
and director Of the Jerry Farms
worth Summer School Of Art at
Truro; Edward Hopper of New York,
winner of the first prize in the 1887
biennial contest, whose work is rep
resented in British as well as Amer
ican museums, and Bernard Karfiol,
winner Of the first prize in the 1928 |
biennial contest and former presi-
dent Of the American Society Of
Painters. Sculptors and Gravers. |
Mr.. Minnigerode is . member ex-
officio.