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Legacy Awards

Past Award Winners

2010 National

Associate Signature

AWARDS AND DONORSVALUEWINNERPAINTING 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
Donor's Award of Excellence
Funded by Friends of OPA
$1,000
Richard B Hall
Breakfast Special: Ham’r and Egg
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
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
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
Portraiture Award of Excellence
$500 cash donation by OPA; $500 Fredericksburg Artists’ School Workshop Scholarship
$1,000
Hai-ou Hou
Girl with her Cat
Seascape Award of Excellence
$500 merchandise certificate from Classic Gallery Frames; $500 merchandise certificate from Air Float Systems
$1,000
Laurie Kersey
Late Afternoon
President's Award of Excellence
Funded by Zhiwei Tu OPAM and Betty Schmidt
$1,000
William Alther
Mount Hope
Member's Choice Award / Associate & Signature Division
Merchandise certificate funded by Utrecht
$1,000
Stanislav Prokopenko
Noble Savage
Landscape Honorable Mention
$250 cash funded by Liliedahl Video Productions; $250 Blick Art Materials Merchandise Certificate
$500
Sandhyaa S Shetty
Creek at Sunset
Portraiture Honorable Mention
$250 cash funded by Liliedahl Video Productions; $250 Blick Art Materials Merchandise Certificate
$500
Bjorn Thorkelson
Girl with Apples
Still Life Honorable Mention
Free Prepress and one sheet paper or canvas reproduction funded by Hunter Editions
$500
Mary Dolph Wood
Brilliant Poppies
Animals Honorable Mention
$250 merchandise certificate from Sourcetek; $250 merchandise certificate from Gamblin Artists Colors Co.
$500
Daria Shachmut
Beast
Figurative Honorable Mention
Merchandise certificate funded by Jack Richeson & Company, Inc.
$500
Aaron A Westerberg
Harmony in Green and Blue

Master Signature

AWARDS AND DONORSVALUEWINNERPAINTING 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
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

Driehaus Award

The Dorothy Driehaus Mellin Fellowship for Midwestern Artists
Funded by the Driehaus Foundation
$20,000
Jacquelyn M Bischak
Reverie

Past Award Winners

2021

Wet Paint
Western
Summer Online Showcase
Student Competition
Spring Online Showcase
Salon
National
Eastern

2020

Wet Paint
Western
Summer Online Showcase
Spring Online Showcase
Salon
National
Fall Online Showcase
Eastern

2019

Western
Virtuosos
Summer Online Showcase
Spring Online Showcase
National
Fall Online Showcase
Eastern

2018

WetPaint Studio
WetPaint PleinAir
Western
Summer Online Showcase
Spring Online Showcase
Salon
National
Fall Online Showcase
Eastern

2017

Western
Summer Online Showcase
Spring Online Showcase
National
Fall Online Showcase
Eastern

2016

Western
Summer Online Showcase
Spring Online Showcase
Salon
National
Fall Online Showcase
Eastern

2015

Western
Virtuosos
Summer Online Showcase
Spring Online Showcase
Salon
National
Fall Online Showcase
Eastern
CityByTheSea

2014

Western
Summer Online Showcase
Spring Online Showcase
National
Masters
Fall Online Showcase
Eastern

2013

Western
Summer Online Showcase
Spring Online Showcase
Salon
National
Fall Online Showcase
Eastern

2012

Western
Summer Online Showcase
Spring Online Showcase
National
Fall Online Showcase
Eastern

2011

Western
Summer Online Showcase
National
Fall Online Showcase
Eastern

2010

Western
National
Eastern

Online Showcase Awards

2020
Spring

Juror of awards: David Mueller OPA
View Winners  – Spring Online Showcase

Summer

Juror of awards: Michele Usibelli OPA
View Winners  – Summer Online Showcase

Fall

Juror of awards: Casey Childs
View Winners  – Fall Online Showcase

2019
Spring

Juror of awards: Nikolo Balkanski OPAM
View Winners  – Spring Online Showcase

Summer

Juror of awards: Greg LaRock OPA
View Winners  – Summer Online Showcase

Fall

Juror of awards: Steve Atkinson OPA
View Winners  – Fall Online Showcase

2018
Spring

Juror of awards: Mary Qian
View Winners  – Spring Online Showcase

Summer

Juror of awards: Bryce Liston OPA
View Winners  – Summer Online Showcase

Fall

Juror of awards: MaryBeth Karaus OPA
View Winners  – Fall Online Showcase

2017
Spring

Juror of awards: Tom Bluemlein OPA
View Winners  – Spring Online Showcase

Summer

Juror of awards: Louis Escobedo OPA
View Winners  – Summer Online Showcase

Fall

Juror of awards: Aimee Erickson
View Winners  – Fall Online Showcase

2016
Spring

Juror of awards:
View Winners  – Spring Online Showcase

Summer

Juror of awards: Frank LaLumia
View Winners  – Summer Online Showcase

Fall

Juror of awards: Anne Blair Brown OPA
View Winners  – Fall Online Showcase

2015
Spring

Juror of awards: Elizabeth Pollie OPA
View Winners  – Spring Online Showcase

Summer

Juror of awards: Kathy Anderson OPA
View Winners  – Summer Online Showcase

Fall

Juror of awards: Kevin Beilfuss OPA
View Winners  – Fall Online Showcase

2014
Spring

Juror of awards: Tim Deibler OPA
View Winners  – Spring Online Showcase

Summer

Juror of awards: Bryce Liston OPA
View Winners  – Summer Online Showcase

Fall

Juror of awards: Dan Beck OPA
View Winners  – Fall Online Showcase

2013
Spring

Juror of awards: Mostafa Keyhani OPA
View Winners  – Spring Online Showcase

Summer

Juror of awards: Kimberly Casebeer OPA
View Winners  – Summer Online Showcase

Fall

Juror of awards: Greg Scheibel
View Winners  – Fall Online Showcase

2012
Spring

View Winners  – Spring Online Showcase

Summer

View Winners  – Summer Online Showcase

Fall

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2011
Summer

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Fall

View Winners  – Fall Online Showcase

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