Members’ purchase prize

SAL record control number: 86182 ;

Record level: Listing ;

Record type: Awards & prizes ;

Title: Members’ purchase prize, 1921-1931 ;

Begin Date: 1921 ;
End Date: 1931 ;

Description / background:
Purchased for the Salmagundi Club Collection. In a letter written to the club membership by J. Massey Rhind, 1923, states, “…It will be remembered that two years ago a group of members suggested that, as the foremost art club of the country, the Salmagundi Club should establish a permanent collection of paintings by members of the Club, securing one important canvas from each Annual Oil Exhibition. As a result of this plan Mr. Robert Spencer’s picture, One O’clock was acquired 2 years ago, and Mr. John Noble’s picture, Moonlight Audierne was last year. The funds for the acquisition of these pictures were supplied through voluntary subscriptions, and your committee feels that the same plan of popular subscription will be most satisfactory means of establishing this years Prize Purchase fund…. ”

1931 – SCNY Annual oil exhibition | $1,000 Arthur James Emery Powell Clear and cold

1930 – SCNY Annual oil exhibition | $1,000 Roy Henry Brown The square tower

1929 – SCNY Annual oil exhibition | $1,000 Sigurd Skou In harbor

1928 – SCNY Annual oil exhibition | $1,000 Walter Granville-Smith November morning

1927 – SCNY Annual oil exhibition | $1,000 Henry Hobart Nichols, Jr. Little pool

1926 – SCNY Annual oil exhibition | $1,000 Howard Logan Hildebrandt The little bathers

1925 – SCNY Annual oil exhibition | $1,000 Richard Edward Miller Sewing

1924 – SCNY Annual oil exhibition | $1,000 Frank Howard Desch La robe de boudoir

1923 – SCNY Annual oil exhibition | $1,000 Gerald Franklin Leake The song

1922 – SCNY Annual oil exhibition | $1,000 John “Wichita Bill” Noble Moonlight audieme

1921 – SCNY Annual oil exhibition | $1,000 Robert Spencer One o’clock

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