Evening star., 1945-01-12
Selection Committee
For Exhibition Of Oil
Paintings Announced

The committee of selection and
awards for the 10Th Biennial Exhi-
bition OF Contemporary American Oil
PAINTINGS, which opens at the Cor
coran Gallery of Art on March Is,
was announced today by C. Powell
Mlnnigerode, gallery director.
Kenneth Hayes Miller, instructor
OF painting and composition at the
Art Students League in New York
City, Will serve as chairman. Others
on the selection committee will be
Richard Lahey, professor at Goucher
College, Baltimore, and George
Washington University and prin-
ctpal Of the Corcoran School of
Art, and, Raphael Soyer, instructor
at the Art Students League.
Lamar Dodd on Committee.
Joining the committee in the
awarding of the prizes will be Lamar
Dodd. head of the Department of
Art at the University of Georgia, and
Hobson Pittman, painter. All of the
Jurists are represented in the per-
manent collection of the Metropoli-
tan Museum of Art in New York
City. Mr. Soyer and Mr.. Lahey are
both included in the permanent COL
lection of the Corcoran Gallery, and,
with Mr.. Miller and Mr.. Pittman,
in the Whitney Museum of Ameri-
can Art in New York. All have had
work exhibited in outstanding gal
leries, and have been represented in
other well-known collections, public
and private.
The committee of selection will 60
to Philadelphia and to New York to
inspect paintings located there, the
work either of local artists or of
artists whose representatives or
agents are there A collection of
paintings by artists of the Washing
ton area also will be viewed by the
committee in choosing the pictures
to be included in the exhibit.
Before the war pictures for the
exhibit could be submitted by all
living artists in the United States.
and paintings were shipped to
Washington for selection from all
parts of the Nation. Because of the
overloaded railroad facilities and
the shortage of labor, this practice
was abandoned for the l943 exhibit,
and the modified form of selection in
the three metropolitan centers was
instituted for the duration. Paint
ings chosen for exhibit are brought
to Washington from Philadelphia
and New York by van so as to avoid
crowding the railroad shipping ia
cilities.
All Pictures for Sale.
The biennial exhibits are held by
the gallery in an effort to present toI
the public paintings by living Ameri-
can artists which, in the opinion of
the selection committee, reflect the
trends of contemporary painting in
this country, Mr. Minnigerode ex-
planned.
All paintings submitted must have
been completed within the last two
years and only one picture is ac-
cepted for exhibit from any one
artist. All of the pictures are for
sale, with no commission charged by
the gallery, Mr.. Minnigerode said.
-Four prizes are awarded each year
from the trust fund left for that
purpose by the late Senator w. A.
Clark, and are accompanied by
medals or a certificate from the gall
lery. The awards are: First, $4,000.
accompanied by the Corcoran Gold
Medal; second, 1,500, with the Cor
coran Silver Medal third, $1,000,
with the Corcoran Bronze Medal.
and fourth, $500, with the Corcoran
Honorable Mention Certificate.
Popular Prize of $500.
A popular prize" of 5000 will be
awarded the artist whose painting
receives the greatest number of votes
of visitors to the exhibition during
the week beginning Monday, April
Is. All visitors may vote, and all
pictures will be eligible for the prize.
The exhibit will open Sunday,
March 18. and continue through
Sunday, April %.