Charles Vezin (1858-1942) Prize, 1911-1932, 1944-1948, 1949-1950,

 

SAL record control number: 70622 ;

Record level: Listing ;

Record type: Awards & prizes ;

 

Title: Charles Vezin Prize ; 

Begin Date: 1911 ; 
End Date:  today ; 

Description / background: 

$100 Awarded at the Thumbbox Exhibition for the best sketch

1911 – Walter Granville-Smith (1870-1938)
1912 – John Fabian Carlson (1874/75-1945) [first w/c Charles Vezin Prize]
1913 – William Vincent Cahill (1878-1924) / Arthur James Emery Powell (1864-1956)
1914 – Everett Longley Warner (1877-1963) / John Scott Williams (1897-1975/76)
1915 – Ernest David Roth (1879-1964)
1916 – Franklin Bejamin De Haven (1856-1934)
1917 – Joseph Henry Boston (1860-1954)
1918 – George Matthew Bruestle (1871-1939)
1919 – George Elmer Browne (1871-1946)
1920 – Charles Shepard Chapman (1879-1962)

In 1921 the Charles Vezin Prize was changed to a purchase prize of $200

1921 – Murray Percival Bewley (1884-1964) [in APR] / Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius (1869-1959) [in DEC]
1922 – Rae Sloan Bredin (1881-1933)
1923 – John Edward Costigan (1888-1972)
1924 – Hobart Nichols Jr (1869-1962)
1925 – Harry Aiken Vincent (1864-1931)
1926 – Walter Farndon (1876-1964)
1927 – Herbert William Meyer (1882-1960)
1928 – John Wells James (1873-1951)
1929 – Walter Farndon (1876-1964)
1930 – John Wells James (1873-1951) [in FEB] / Richard M Kimbel (1866-1942) [in NOV]
1931 – [none]
1932 – Antonio Cirino (1889-1983)
after 1932 Vezin prize withdrawn 

No prize from 1933 to 1943 (10 years)

In 1944 John Wells James reinstated the Vezin Prize to be known now as Vezin-James Purchase Prize for Thumb Box Painting to be awarded for 5 years.  It was $150.

1944 – Harry Leith-Ross (1886-1973)
1945 – Antonio Pietro Martino (1902-1988)
1946 – [no exhibition until FEB, 1947]
1947 – Thomas Richard Olenchak (1907-1992)  [in NOV]
1948 – Louis Jambor (1884-1955)

Thomas Cole and Ins. Co. paid for prize for:

1949 – Junius Allen (1898-1962)  [in NOV]
1950 – John Clifford Pellew (1903-1993)  [in NOV]

In 1948 there was another prize simply noted as ‘TB’

1948 – Chauncey Hawley Griffith II (1879-1956)  [in NOV]
1948 – August Henry Nordhausen (1901-1993)  $50

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Unknown date – James Gale Tyler (1855-1931)

 

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Document information

Document permalink:
http://salmagundi.org/awards/?p=70622

Digital-born document number:
SAL.2019.70622

Record birth date:
December 16, 2019

Last updated: August 5, 2021 at 17:21 pm