2010 Awardees
2010 Awardees
National Juried Exhibition Master Signature Division: Legacy Gallery
AWARDS AND DONORS
VALUE
WINNER
PAINTING TITLE
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
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
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
National 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
19th 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