2010 Awardees

2010 Awardees

National Juried Exhibition Master Signature Division: Legacy Gallery

  AWARDS AND DONORS VALUE WINNER PAINTING TITLE
1st Place Gold Medal Award
Funded by OPA ($3,600) and Friends of OPA ($1,400)   (Eligibility only once every three years for the same artist)
$5,000 Ruo Li OPAM California Autumn
2nd Place Silver Medal Award
Funded by American Art Collector (Two-page feature article on awardee)
$5,600 Jeffrey R. Watts OPAM Last Light Granville Martin Ranch
3rd Place Bronze Medal Award
Funded by Southwest Art Magazine - One full page advertisement ($3,125) and one dedicated e-mail broadcast ($550)
$3,675 Jeff Legg OPAM Green Bottle with Apricots
Member's Choice Award Master Signature Division
Funded by Art of the West Magazine - Half page advertisement ($1780), 24"x30" 23k Water Guilded Gold Leaf Frame funded by Barbara Carter Fine Guilded Frames ($365), 450 page full color book on Ilya Repin donated by Dick Bell Book Maven ($290)
$2,435 Huihan Liu OPAM Foothill of Mt. Tanggula
Shirl Smithson Founders Award for Master Signature Members
Funded by the Shirl Smithson Family

$500 Quang Ho OPAM The Ohio Gentleman

Back To TopNational Juried Exhibition Associate Signature Division: Legacy Gallery

  AWARDS AND DONORS VALUE WINNER PAINTING TITLE
Gold Medal Award
Funded by Oil Painters of America
(Eligibility only once every 3 years for the same artist)
$22,000 Mary Qian Model on Break
Silver Medal Award
Funded by American Art Collector Magazine: two page feature article on award winner
$5,600 Kristine Pallas Under the Golden Gate
Bronze Medal Award
Funded by Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine: one full page advertisement
$3,520

Dave A. Santillanes Spring Runoff - Study
Animals Award of Excellence
$450 -18” x 24” 22 karat gold frame funded by Wallis Brothers’ Framing, Inc.; $250 merchandise certificate funded by Gamblin Artists Colors Co.; $130 merchandise certificate funded by  Martin F. Weber; $209 Artists’ Oil Colour Box funded by Winsor & Newton
$1,000 Jennifer N. O’Cualain Mourning
Animals Honorable Mention
$250 merchandise certificate from Sourcetek; $250 merchandise certificate from Gamblin Artists Colors Co.
$500 Daria Shachmut Beast
Figurative Award of Excellence
$500 cash donation and two years of web hosting valued at $600 funded by Fine Art Studio On-Line
$1,100 Kevin C. Beilfuss Abide With Me
Figurative Honorable Mention
Merchandise certificate funded by Jack Richeson & Company, Inc.
$500 Aaron A. Westerberg Harmony in Green and Blue
John Marion Pardy Landscape Award of Excellence
$1,000 cash donation funded by the family of John Marion Pardy
$1,000 Marc R. Hanson OPA Sunday Morning Frost
Landscape Honorable Mention
$250 cash funded by Liliedahl Video Productions; $250 Blick Art Materials Merchandise Certificate
$500 Sandhyaa S. Shetty Creek at Sunset
Portraiture Award of Excellence
 $500 cash donation by OPA; $500 Fredericksburg Artists’ School Workshop Scholarship
$1,000 Hai-ou Hou Girl with her Cat
Portraiture Honorable Mention
$250 cash funded by Liliedahl Video Productions; $250 Blick Art Materials Merchandise Certificate
$500

Bjorn Thorkelson Girl with Apples
Seascape Award of Excellence
$500 merchandise certificate from Classic Gallery Frames; $500 merchandise certificate from Air Float Systems
$1,000 Laurie Kersey Late Afternoon
Seascape Honorable Mention
$250 cash funded by Classic Gallery Frames; $250 merchandise certificate funded by RaymarArt
$500 Mark D. Hiles On the Lookout
Still Life Award of Excellence
Funded by Quality Art & Frame Ltd.; $900 merchandise certificate plus $100 shipping
$1,000 Lee Alban Ultralight Aircraft
Still Life Honorable Mention
Free Prepress and one sheet paper or canvas reproduction funded by Hunter Editions
$500 Mary Dolph Wood Brilliant Poppies
Member's Choice Award / Associate & Signature Division
Merchandise certificate funded by Utrecht
$1,000 Stanislav Prokopenko Noble Savage
Donor's Award of Excellence
Funded by Friends of OPA
$1,000 Richard B. Hall Breakfast Special: Ham’r and Egg
President's Award of Excellence
Funded by Zhiwei Tu OPAM and Betty Schmidt
$1,000 William Alther Mount Hope

Back To Top19th National Exhibition Dorothy Driehaus Mellin Fellowship for Midwestern Artists

  AWARDS AND DONORS VALUE WINNER PAINTING TITLE
The Dorothy Driehaus Mellin Fellowship for Midwestern Artists
Funded by the Driehaus Foundation
$20,000 Jacquelyn M. Bischak Reverie
This fellowship is provided through a generous contribution by the Driehaus Foundation for an OPA artist residing in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio or Wisconsin.

 

 

American National/Gold Winners

2010

19th National Juried Exhibition

2009

18th National Juried Exhibition
Eastern Regional Exhibition
Western Regional Exhibition

2008

17th National Juried Exhibition
Eastern Regional Exhibition
Western Regional Exhibition

2007

16th National Juried Exhibition
Eastern Regional Exhibition
Central Regional Exhibition
Western Regional Exhibition

2006

15th National Juried Exhibition
Eastern Regional Exhibition
Western Regional Exhibition

 

 
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