The Mary Smith Prize Pa Academy of Fine Art

Russell, Mary Priscilla, and Mary Smith

The Mary Smith Prize (defunct) was a prestigious art prize awarded to women artists by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. It recognized the best work by a Philadelphia woman creative person at PAFA'southward annual exhibition — ane that showed "the most originality of subject, beauty of design and drawing, and finesse of colour and skill of execution".^{[1] [2]} The prize was founded in 1879 by Russell Smith in memory of his deceased daughter, artist Mary Russell Smith.^{[3] [4]} It was awarded from 1879 to 1968.^[five]

Prize [edit]

In the nineteenth century, women artists were rarely awarded major prizes. They were by and large limited to prizes designated for them. Just rare exceptions included: Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, who won the 1889 Temple Gilt Medal at PAFA; Mary Hazelton, who won the 1896 Hallgarten Prize at the National University of Design;^[iv] and Cecilia Beaux, who won the 1899 Carnegie Prize at the Carnegie Museum of Fine art and the 1900 Temple Gold Medal at PAFA.

Initially, the Mary Smith Prize carried a greenbacks prize of $100, which was increased to $300 in 1960.^[2] Cecilia Beaux had won this prize four times before she was awarded the Temple Gold Medal.

Other 19th-century prizes for women artists were the Contrivance Prize at the National University of Design and the Shaw Prize at the Lodge of American Artists.

Mary Russell Smith (1842–1878), Springs Bounty.

Mary Russell Smith [edit]

Mary Russell Smith was the daughter of landscape and theatrical scenery painter William Thompson Russell Smith (Russell Smith) (1812–96) and apprentice creative person Mary Priscilla Wilson Smith (1819–74). Both of her parents exhibited at the Pennsylvania University of the Fine Arts.^[6] Mary and her blood brother, Xanthus Russell Smith, both developed an interest in painting. Xanthus attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Mary exhibited her paintings of rabbits, chicks, and other animals in that location 1859 to 1869, and over again between 1876 and 1878.

Russell Smith established the Mary Smith Prize following her expiry.^[6] Mary Russell Smith had designated that upon her death the proceeds of the sale of her paintings should be used to fund the prize, to be awarded to women artists.^[4]

Recipients [edit]

Year	Artist	Image	Work	Collection	Notes
1879	Susan Macdowell Eakins[7]		Portrait of a Admirer and Dog	Taubman Museum of Fine art, Roanoke, Virginia	Portrait of the artist'south father.
1880	Catherine A. Janvier[3]		Old-Fashioned Music (The Guitar Player)	Private collection
1881	Emily Sartain[viii]		Marie
1882	Mary K. Trotter[3]		May
1883	Emily Sartain		Metelill
1884	Lucy D. Holme[3]		Petrona [ix]
1885	Cecilia Beaux[3]		Les Derniers Jours d'Enfance (The Last Days of Infancy) [x]	Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts	Portrait of the creative person's sister, Etta Beaux Drinker, and nephew Henry. Exhibited: 1887 Paris Salon
1886	No exhibition
1887	Cecilia Beaux		A Little Girl (Fanny Travis Cochran) [11]	Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1888	Elizabeth F. Bonsall[iii]		Paying the Model
1889	Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts[one] [a]		Dice Flucht (The Flying)
1890	Alice Hairdresser Stephens[three]		Portrait of a Boy
1891	Cecilia Beaux		Portrait (pastel)
1892	Cecilia Beaux		Portrait
1893	No exhibition
1894	Maria 50. Kirk[iii]		Portrait
1895	Gabrielle D. Clements[3]		Granite Cutting at Cape Ann
1896	Elizabeth H. Watson[3]		Portrait of Reverend Dr. Watson
1897	Elizabeth F. Bonsall		Hot Milk [thirteen]	Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1898	Caroline Peart[three]		Once upon a Time [xiv]	Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall College
1899	Carol H. Beck[3]		Study		Following the artist's death in 1908, the Ballad H. Brook Golden Medal was founded in her memory.
1900	Mary F. R. Clay[3]		Portrait of Irene 1000.		Honorable mention: Janet Wheeler
1901	Janet Wheeler[3]		Portrait of Mrs. Louise Starr
1902	Elinor Earle[3]		Burn Low-cal
1903	Jessie Willcox Smith[3]		A Mother's Days [15] (set up of eight watercolor illustrations)		Published in Scribner's Monthly Magazine, December 1902.
1904	Lillian Thousand. Genth[3]		Peasant Houses
1905	Elizabeth Shippen Green[three]		prepare of 12 watercolor illustrations for "The Thousand Quilt" (curt story)		Annie Hamilton Donnell, "The Thousand Quilt," Harper's Monthly Magazine, December 1904.[16]
1906	Alice Mumford Roberts[three]		Ii Vaudeville Stars
1907	Mary Smyth Perkins[iii]		Cows
1908	Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones[3]		Roller Skates
1909	Martha Walter[17]		Portrait
1910	Alice Mumford Roberts		The Morn Air
1911	Alice Kent Stoddard[3]		Portrait of Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones	Pennsylvania University of the Fine Arts
1912	Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones		In the Bound
1913	Alice Kent Stoddard		Little Girl Cutting Dolls
1914	Nina B. Ward[3]		Elizabeth [18]	Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1915	Gertrude A. Lambert[12]		Carpet Rags
1916	Nancy Thousand. Ferguson[12]		In Provincetown
1917	Elizabeth F. Washington[12]		Winter [19]
1918	Helen K. McCarthy[12]		Farms in Hill Country
1919	Juliet White Gross[12]		On the Hill
1920	Mildred B. Miller		In the Window [20]
1921	Katherine Patton		Deep in the Woods
1922	Mary Townsend Mason		All the same Life with Fruit
1923	Isabel Branson Cartwright		Portrait: H.B.S.
1924	Lillian B. Meeser		The Green Bottle
1925	Mary Butler		Flood Tide
1926	Wenonah Bong		Still Life
1927	Pearl Aiman Van Sciver		New Promise
1928	Laura D. S. Ladd		Nonetheless Life and Dahlias
1929	Edith McMurtrie		Harpooning Equus caballus Mackerel
1930	Grace Gemberling		Rocks and Flowers
1931	Mildred B. Miller		Yuanshi Kuo
1932	Virginia Armitage McCall		Waldron University, Overbrook
1933	Catherine Morris Wright		Later Dejeuner
1934	Elizabeth F. Washington		The Bend in the Creek
1935	Margaretta Southward. Hinchman		Portrait of a Nun
1936	Alice T. Roberts		T'Ang Horses
1937	Henriette Wyeth		Peter Hurd	El Paso Museum of Art
1938	Irene Denney		The "5 and 10"
1939	Mary Townsend Mason		Flowers
1940	Frances Cowan		Wetzel's Kitchen
1941	Sarah Blakeslee		Forth the River
1942	Faye Swengel		Bucks Canton Farmer
1943	Margaretta S. Hinchman		I Know the Lord Laid His Hand on Me
1944	Doris Kunzie Weidner		Holliday'southward Manufacturing plant
1945	Catherine Grant		Captain Charlie and the Hawk's Nest
1946	Doris Kunzie Weidner		Deserted Farm
1947	Agnes Allen		Portrait of J. Somers Smith	The State in Schuylkill, Philadelphia
1948	Violet Oakley		Christ and the Woman of Samaria [21]	First Presbyterian Church in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1949	Catherine Grant		The Villa Marie
1950	Marie-Celeste Fadden		French Child on Train
1951	Rita Wolpe Barnett		To the Earth
1952	Alice T. Roberts		Ipswich Sand Dunes, No. 2
1953	Elsie Manville		Yellow Hat
1954	Dora Bortin		Russian Tea Service
1955	No exhibition
1956	No prize awarded
1957	No exhibition
1958	Jane Sperry Eisenstat		Dead Opossum
1959	No exhibition
1960	Cecilia Finberg		Mural
1961	No exhibition
1962	Elizabeth C. Osborne		Girl Sleeping
1963	No exhibition
1964	Virginia Armitage McCall		Dahlia: Still Life
1965	No exhibition
1966	Mitzi Melnicoff		Children's Hr
1967	No exhibition
1968	Edna Andrade		Space Frame D		Concluding Mary Smith Prize awarded

See besides [edit]

• Brook Gold Medal
• Temple Gold Medal
• Widener Gold Medal

Notes [edit]

1. ^ In 1902, Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts, the 1889 recipient of the Mary Smith Prize, founded the Jennie Sesnan Aureate Medal at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.^[12]

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b} "About: Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts". Concord Art Clan. Archived from the original on Apr 7, 2015. Retrieved March fourteen, 2015.
2. ^ ^{a b} Peter H. Falk; Anna Wells Rutledge; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1 November 1989). The Annual Exhibition Record of the Pennsylvania University of the Fine Arts: 1914–1968. Audio View Printing. p. 29. ISBN978-0-932087-07-2.
3. ^ ^{a b c d east f k h i j yard l thou north o p q r s t u v due west} Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1914). Catalogue of the Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture. pp. 10–11.
4. ^ ^{a b c} Kirsten Swinth (2001). Painting Professionals: Women Artists & the Evolution of Mod American Art, 1870–1930. UNC Press Books. p. 233. ISBN978-0-8078-4971-2.
5. ^ Michael David Zellman (1986). American Fine art Analog: 1688–1842. Chelsea House Publishers. p. 322. ISBN978-ane-55546-001-3.
6. ^ ^{a b} Edward J. Sozanski, Inquirere Fine art Critic (April 3, 1998). "The Smiths: A Clan Of Artists Rediscovered". The Inquirer (Philly.com). Philadelphia: Interstate General Media, LLC. Retrieved March 14, 2015.
7. ^ Gaze, Delia (1997). Lexicon of Women Artists. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. p. 485. ISBN1-884-964-21-4.
8. ^ Robert McHenry (1980). Famous American Women: A Biographical Dictionary from Colonial Times to the Nowadays. Courier Dover Publications. p. 369. ISBN978-0-486-24523-2.
9. ^ Petrona, from ArtNet.
10. ^ Les Derniers Jours d'Enfance, from PAFA.
11. ^ A Petty Girl, from PAFA.
12. ^ ^{a b c d due east f} Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1919). Catalogue of the Annual Exhibition. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. p. x.
13. ^ Hot Milk, from PAFA.
14. ^ In one case upon a Fourth dimension
15. ^ "Jessie Willcox Smith - A Mother's Twenty-four hours". Retrieved thirty March 2017.
16. ^ Donnell, Annie Hamilton (ane December 1904). "The grand quilt". Retrieved xxx March 2017 – via Harpers.
17. ^ Paschall, W. Douglass (2002). Impressionist Jewels: The Paintings of Martha Walter. Philadelphia, Pa.: Woodmere Art Museum. Retrieved vii March 2015.
18. ^ Elizabeth, from PAFA.
19. ^ Wintertime (painting), from SIRIS.
20. ^ In the Window, International Studio, vol. 72 (1920).
21. ^ Panel V (correct), from First Presbyterian Church in Germantown.

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