Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-03
Reginald Marsh Wins
Top Prize Of $1,000
In Corcoran Exhibit

The award-winning pictures Of
the 10Th biennial exhibition Of
contemporary American Oil paint
ings, which opens at the Corcoran
Gallery of Art, March 10, were an
nounced today by the gallery
The w. A. Clark first prize Of
$4,000, and the Corcoran Gold Medal
were awarded to Reginald Marsh for
his painting, entitled Strip Tease
in New jersey"
Others winners were: Second Clark
prize of $500 and the Corcoran
Silver Medal. to zsissly (Malvin
Mari Albright, for Deer Isle,
Maine;" third prize of $1,000 and
the Corcoran Bronze Medal, to
Isabel Bishop, for Two Girls Out
doors" and fourth prize of $500 and
the Corcoran honorable mention
certificate to Jean Liberte, for Twin
Lights-Rockport."
Artists are Judges.
All of the prizes were awarded
from the trust fund established by
the late Senator w. A. Clark, by a
jury chosen by the gallery. Mem
bers of the jury included Kenneth
Hayes Miller, chairman; Lamar
Dodd, Richard Lahey, Hobson Pitt
man and Raphael Soyer, all Of
whom are artists.
Mr.. Marsh is a painter. illustrator
and etcher. A pupil of Mr.. Miller,
and Yale University, he is the son
of artist parents and learned to
draw in their studio. He is a men,
Der of the National Society of Mural
Painters, the American Society Of
Painters, Sculptors, and Gravers,
and an associate Of the National
Academy of Design, 1887.
He was awarded the Kohnstamm
Prize of the annual exhibition of
American paintings and sculpture
of the Art Institute of Chicago in
1881, and the Thomas B. Clarke
Prize of the National Academy of
Design in New York in 1887. His
work is represented in the perma-
nent collections of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, the Whitney Mu-
scum of American Art and the
Post Office Building in New York;
the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston,
and by murals in the Customs
House, New York, and the Wash
ington Post Office.
Zsissly is the twin brother of Ivan
LIE Lorraine Albright, artist. and the
son of Adam Emory Albright, also
an American painter. He was
awarded the Gold Medal of the Chi
cago Society of Artists in 1894 and
the French Memorial Gold Medal
of the American Painters Society.
Art Institute of Chicago, in 1885.
Had Won Maynard Prize.
Isabel Bishop, painter, etcher and
illustrator, was born in Cincinnati,
and studied with Mr.. Miller. She
was awarded the Maynard prize
(portrai) at the National Academy
of Design in New York in 1886 and
the Newport Art Association prize
/ in 1887 She is represented in the
Metropolitan and Whitney Mu-
seums. the Gallery of American Art
/ in Andover. Mass: the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts, philadelphia,
the Phillips Memorial Gallery here,
and the Colorado Springs Fine Arts
Center She is an instructor of life
and composition at the Art Stu
dents League in New York.
/ Jean Iiberte studied under David
Karfunkle. the Cooper Union. the
Art Students League of New York,
the National Gallery of Design. and
the Beaux Arts Institute of Design
in New York. He is represented
in the permanent collection of Whit
ney Museum of American Art and
in other institutions and private
collections.
All of the prize winning pictures
will be included in the exhibition.
which will be open to the public
from Sunday, March 10, through
Sunday, April 90
/ In order to cooperate with the
wartime transportation problem,
the gallery this year confined the
exhibition to invited work, which
was selected by the jury on trips
to several art centers. All the
| pictures were brought to Washing
ton by van by the gallery, SO as
to avoid crowding the trains and
shipping facilities.
! The exhibition is composed of
original oil paintings by living art
lists of the United States not before
pllbliclv exhibited In WASHINGTON