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Legacy Awards

Past Award Winners

2014 National

Associate Signature

AWARDS AND DONORSVALUEWINNERPAINTING TITLE
Light Source by Louis Escobedo
Gold Medal Award
Funded by Oil Painters of America
(Eligibility only once every 3 years for the same artist)
$25,000
Louis Escobedo
Light Source
Girl at Rest by Bo Zhang
Silver Medal Award
Funded by American Art Collector: Two-page feature article on award winner valued at $6,200
$6,200
Bo Zhang
Girl at Rest
Winter of Sylvan by Xiao S. Jiang OPA
Bronze Medal Award
Funded by Plein Air Magazine
One full-page advertisement valued at $3,800
$3,800
Xiao S. Jiang OPA
Winter of Sylvan
Summer in Tahoe by Hao (Fongwei) Liu
Best Associate Award of Excellence
Funded by Jack Richeson & Company
$2,000 merchandise certificate
$2,000
Fongwei Liu
Summer in Tahoe
Hungry Valley by Victor A. Schiro
Landscape Award of Excellence
$500 cash donation funded by Friends of OPA, $600 Fredericksburg Artists' School Workshop Scholarship
$1,100
Victor A. Schiro
Hungry Valley
Golden Light by Michael Situ OPA
Seascape Award of Excellence
$1,000 merchandise certificate funded by Michael Harding Artists Oil Colours
$1,000
Michael Situ OPA
Golden Light
The Happy Homemaker by Tim Tyler OPA
Most Original Award of Excellence
$1,500 cash donation funded by FASO
$1,500
Tim Tyler OPA
The Happy Homemaker
Portofino Passeggiata by Charles T. Cox OPA
Donor's Award of Excellence
$1,000 cash donation funded by Friends of OPA, $250 merchandise certificate funded by Ampersand
$1,250
Charles T. Cox OPA
Portofino Passeggiata
Market Day by Christopher Z. Zhang OPA
John August Dietrich Memorial Figurative Award of Excellence
$1,000 cash donation funded by RayMar Art
$1,000
Christopher Z. Zhang OPA
Market Day
Sunny Kids by Clement Kwan OPA
Animal Award of Excellence
$1,000 merchandise certificate funded by Michael Harding Handmade Artists Oil Colours
$1,000
Clement Kwan OPA
Sunny Kids
A Rose Between Two Thorns by Deanne L. Lemley
Ted Goerschner OPAM Memorial Impressionist Award of Excellence
$1,000 cash donation funded by friends of Ted Goerschner OPAM
$1,000
Deanne L. Lemley
A Rose Between Two Thorns
Cement and Tree Shadows by Dianne L. Massey Dunbar OPA
Realism Award of Excellence
$1,000 cash donation funded by FASO
$1,000
Dianne L. Massey Dunbar OPA
Cement and Tree Shadows
Red Tulips and Oriole by Kathy Anderson OPA
Best Signature Award of Excellence
Funded by Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine
One full-page advertisement valued at $3,800
$3,800
Kathy Anderson OPA
Red Tulips and Oriole
The Chase by Dan Schultz
Presidents' Award of Excellence
$1,000 cash donation funded by Past Presidents Zhiwei Tu OPAM and Betty Schmidt
$1,000
Dan Schultz
The Chase
In a Good Light by Anne Blair Brown
Still Life Award of Excellence
Merchandise certificates funded by: $500 Gamblin Artists Colors Co, $500 SourceTek
$1,000
Anne Blair Brown
In a Good Light
Self Portrait with Key by Aimee Erickson
Portraiture Award of Excellence
$500 cash donation funded by Friends of OPA, $500 Scottsdale Artists' School Workshop Scholarship
$1,000
Aimee Erickson
Self Portrait with Key
Beside the Still Waters by Sheri Farabaugh
Realism Honorable Mention
Merchandise certificates funded by: $500 Blick Art Materials; $250 Liliedahl Video Productions; $100 New Wave Art
$850
Sheri Farabaugh
Beside the Still Waters
The Commute by Hilarie Lambert
Figurative Honorable Mention
Merchandise certificates funded by: $500 Gamblin Artists Colors Co.; $400 Martin F. Weber
$900
Hilarie Lambert
The Commute
Metro Lights 1 by Susiehyer
Landscape Honorable Mention
$500 merchandise certificate funded by Williamsburg Handmade Oils, $260 Medium French Resistance Pochade funded by Guerilla Painter
$760
Susiehyer
Metro Lights 1
The Gardener's Shed by Joreen M. Benbenek
Still Life Honorable Mention
Merchandise certificates funded by: $500 Blue Ridge Oil Colors, $400 Martin F. Weber
$900
Joreen M. Benbenek
The Gardener's Shed
Hung the Ocean by Paul Cheng
Seascape Honorable Mention
$500 artists' oil set funded by M. Graham & Company, $400 merchandise certificate funded by Martin F. Weber
$900
Paul Cheng
Hung the Ocean
Morning in Zhouzhuang by Qiang Huang OPA
Impressionist Honorable Mention
Merchandise certificates funded by: $500 Williamsburg Handmade Oils; $250 Rosemary & Co.; $100 New Wave Art
$850
Qiang Huang OPA
Morning in Zhouzhuang
Aidan by Kelly A. Sullivan
Portraiture Honorable Mention
Merchandise certificates funded by: $500 Glaser Frames; $250 Grumbacher
$750
Kelly A. Sullivan
Aidan
Ice on the Creek by James Coe OPA
Animal Honorable Mention
Merchandise certificates funded by: $500 Natural Pigments; $250 ArtFrames.com; $100 New Wave Art
$850
James Coe OPA
Ice on the Creek

Master Signature

AWARDS AND DONORSVALUEWINNERPAINTING TITLE
Spettro by Nancy Crookston OPAM
Gold Medal Award
Funded by OPA and Friends of OPA. (Eligibility only once every three years for the same artist)
$5,000
Nancy Crookston OPAM
Spettro
Look to the Light
Silver Medal Award
Funded by American Art Collector: two-page feature article on award winner
$6,200
Kenn Backhaus OPAM
Look to the Light
In the Cedar Grove at Menodocino by Albert Handell OPAM
Bronze Medal Award
Funded by Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine: one full page advertisement valued at $3,800
$3,800
Albert Handell OPAM
In the Cedar Grove at Menodocino
Time with Two Friends
Most Original Award of Excellence
Funded by Southwest Art Magazine - one half-page advertisement valued at $3,380
$3,380
David Hettinger OPAM
Time with Two Friends
Clodiana and Friend
Donors' Award of Excellence
$1,000 cash donation funded by Friends of OPA, Art of the West Magazine — one half-page advertisement valued at $1,780, 5-piece Vernet Oil Color Set and 20-piece Holbein Oil Color Set funded by Holbein, valued at $313
$3,093
William T. Chambers OPAM
Clodiana and Friend
The Moment of Sunset by Ruo Li OPAM
Shirl Smithson Founders' Award for Master Signature Members
Funded by the Shirl Smithson Family
$500
Ruo Li OPAM
The Moment of Sunset

Driehaus Award

Warm Glow in a Polar Vortex by Michael P. Van Zeyl
The Dorothy Driehaus Mellin Fellowship for Midwestern Artists
This fellowship is provided through a generous contribution by The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation for an OPA artist residing in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin
$20,000
Michael P. Van Zeyl
Warm Glow in a Polar Vortex

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

View Winners  – Fall Online Showcase

2011
Summer

View Winners  – Summer Online Showcase

Fall

View Winners  – Fall Online Showcase

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