Cornell Prize

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The Cornell Prize was the major contemporary art prize offered in South Australia and was presented as an exhibition by the Contemporary Art Society of South Australia from 1951 to 1965. [1] It was administered by the Cornell family. Several of the prize-winning paintings were subsequently acquired by the Art Gallery of South Australia.

Winners include:

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Thompson's work was exhibited at the New Gallery of Fine Art in Rundle Street in 1953, where Voitre Marek was director. [9]

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  1. ↑ Francis, Ivor (14 July 1951). "ART PAINTINGS GRADED". The News . Vol. 57, no. 8, 715. South Australia. p. 4. Retrieved 31 July 2019– via National Library of Australia. The new F. Cornell Art Prize is the first prize to be awarded at an exhibition by this society. A mixed panel of laymen and artists will award the prize to the most outstanding work. Judges are Messrs. R. G. Campbell, Kym Bonython, Max Harris, Joseph Choate, and Miss Dorrit Black.
  2. ↑ "Music Art Theatre". The Advertiser (Adelaide) . Vol. 94, no. 28, 947. South Australia. 21 July 1951. p. 7. Retrieved 31 July 2019– via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ "Art Essential In Modern Life". The Advertiser (Adelaide) . Vol. 95, no. 29, 254. South Australia. 16 July 1952. p. 4. Retrieved 31 July 2019– via National Library of Australia.
  4. ↑ "Brothers Vie For Art Prize". The Advertiser (Adelaide) . Vol. 96, no. 29, 564. South Australia. 15 July 1953. p. 3. Retrieved 31 July 2019– via National Library of Australia.
  5. ↑ "Refused Prizemoney". The Advertiser (Adelaide) . Vol. 97, no. 29, 874. South Australia. 14 July 1954. p. 4. Retrieved 31 July 2019– via National Library of Australia.
  6. ↑ Dutkiewicz, Adam Jan (8 August 2014). "Francis Roy Thompson". The Dutkiewicz Archive. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
  7. ↑ McDonald, Patrick (8 August 2014). "The slapstick clown who mastered colour on canvas". AdelaideNow . Retrieved 3 September 2021.
  8. ↑ Neylon, John (10 September 2014). "The Art of Francis Roy Thompson: Vital Signs". The Adelaide Review . Retrieved 3 September 2021.
  9. ↑ Young, Elizabeth (26 August 1953). "Second Show In New City Gallery". The Advertiser (Adelaide) . Vol. 96, no. 29, 600. South Australia. p. 5. Retrieved 1 September 2021– via National Library of Australia.
  10. ↑ "Stanislaus Ostoja-Kotkowski b. 28 December 1922". Design & Art Australia Online. 2012. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
  11. ↑ "Hick, Jacqueline (1919-)". Trove. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
  12. ↑ Lindsay, Elaine (2014). "Hanrahan, Barbara Janice (1939–1991)". Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography. ,Australian National University. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
  13. ↑ Grishin, Sasha; Dutkiewicz, Adam; Kempf, Franz; Smith, Robert (2002). Franz Kempf: Thinking on Paper, 1955-2002. Wakefield Press. pp. 6 & 63. ISBN   978-1-86254-592-2.
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