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Legacy Awards

Past Award Winners

2016 Salon

Associate Signature

AWARDS AND DONORSVALUEWINNERPAINTING TITLE
Abundance of Spring by Dave A. Santillanes OPA
Gold Medal
$2,500 cash funded by Oil Painters of America
$2,500
Dave A. Santillanes OPA
Abundance of Spring
Escorts to Eternity by Charles G. Kapsner
Silver Medal
Winner featured in Artist Focus section funded by American Art Collector Magazine
$3,400
Charles G. Kapsner
Escorts to Eternity
Les Deux Garcons study by Sarah Kidner OPA
Bronze Medal
Full page advertisement funded by Southwest Art Magazine
$3,380
Sarah Kidner OPA
Les Deux Garcons Study
Snow And Red Roof by Tom L. Nachreiner OPA
Award of Excellence
Williamsburg Oil Painting Set funded by Golden Artist Colors
$232
Tom L. Nachreiner OPA
Snow And Red Roof
Earle's Tractors by William L. Rogers
Award of Excellence
$500 cash funded by Oil Painters of America
$500
William L. Rogers
Earle's Tractors
Prague by Ken Spencer OPA
Award of Excellence
Merchandise Certificate funded by Artisan-Santa Fe
$500
J. Ken Spencer OPA
Prague
Valkyrie by Kathleen Coy
Award of Excellence
Gold Premium Teacher Listing with Art Cantina ($100) and Schmincke Mussini Fine Artists’ Oil Colors Set ($126)
$226
Kathleen Coy
Valkyrie
Silence by Cynthia Feustel
Award of Excellence
$250 cash funded by Oil Painters of America
$250
Cynthia Feustel
Silence
Yellow Fellow by Shelby L. Keefe
Award of Excellence
Gold Premium Teacher Listing with Art Cantina ($100) and Schmincke Mussini Fine Artists’ Oil Colors Set ($126)
$226
Shelby L. Keefe
Yellow Fellow
Acacia by Jeremy E. Manyik
Award of Excellence
$100 cash funded by Oil Painters of America
$100
Jeremy E. Manyik
Acacia
The Kitchen Window by Flora Pinkham
Award of Excellence
Merchandise Certificate funded by Cheap Joe’s Art Stuff
$275
Flora Pinkham
The Kitchen Window
Eastpoint Fleet by Thomas W. Sadler
Award of Excellence
$100 cash funded by Oil Painters of America
$100
Thomas W. Sadler
Eastpoint Fleet
Daisy Shimmer by Betty N. Smith OPA
Award of Excellence
$100 cash funded by Oil Painters of America
$100
Betty Nance Smith OPA
Daisy Shimmer
Luna by H. Momo Zhou
Award of Excellence
$1,000 cash funded by Oil Painters of America
$1,000
H. Momo Zhou
Luna
Are We Through Yet? by Dan Bulleit
Award of Excellence – Most Original
½ page advertisement funded by Plein Air Magazine
$2,000
Dan Bulleit
Are We Through Yet?
12th Street by Louis Escobedo OPA
Award of Excellence
¼ page advertisement funded by Plein Air Magazine
$1,200
Louis Escobedo OPA
12th Street

Master Signature

AWARDS AND DONORSVALUEWINNERPAINTING TITLE
Ceramics Shop by James Crandall OPAM
Gold Medal
$1,500 cash funded by Oil Painters of America
$1,500
James Crandall OPAM
Ceramics Shop
Peonies and the Cinderella Teapot by Sherrie McGraw
Award of Excellence
$150 cash funded by Oil Painters of America and a $75 brush bouquet from Rosemary & Co.
$225
Sherrie McGraw OPAM
Peonies and the Cinderella Teapot
Newport Sailboats by Calvin Liang OPAM
Award of Excellence
$500 cash funded by Oil Painters of America
$500
Calvin Liang OPAM
Newport Sailboats

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

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Fall

View Winners  – Fall Online Showcase

2011
Summer

View Winners  – Summer Online Showcase

Fall

View Winners  – Fall Online Showcase

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