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Legacy Awards

Past Award Winners

2021 National

Associate Signature

AWARDS AND DONORSVALUEWINNERPAINTING TITLE
Gold Medal Award
Funded by Oil Painters of America (Eligibility only once every two years for the same artist)
$25,000
Kyle Ma OPA
Zion Bighorn Sheep
Silver Medal Award
Funded by American Art Collector Magazine - Two-page feature article on award winner
$6,800
Eric Karl Johnson OPA
Jesse
Bronze Medal Award
Funded by Art of the West Magazine - One full-page advertisement
$3,075
Katie J. Liddiard
Roses and Grapevines
Members� Choice Associate Member Award of Excellence
Holbein Artist Oil Color Set of 20 ($260) and Merchandise certificate funded by MasterPak ($250)
$510
Marc Anderson
Early Bird Special
Animal Award of Excellence
Cash donation funded by FASO
$1,000
Linda Besse OPA
Ice Bear
Portraiture Award of Excellence
Cash donation funded by Ship & Insure ($500) and Merchandise certificate funded by Blick Art Materials ($500)
$1,000
Kyle Stuckey OPA
Seaside
Alden Bryan Memorial Landscape Painting Award of Excellence
Cash donation funded by the Alden and Mary Bryan Arts Fund and the Vermont Community Foundation
$1,000
Hiu Lai Chong OPA
Stationed in Time
Best Associate Award of Excellence
Artwork Archive Lifetime Master Account
$1,250
Terry Widener
In the Cold Rain
Ted Goerschner OPAM Memorial Impressionist Award of Excellence
Cash donation funded by friends of Ted Goerschner OPAM
$1,000
Carol Jenkins OPA
Winter Afternoon
Seascape Award of Excellence
Cash donation funded by Ship & Insure ($500) and Merchandise certificate funded by Blick Art Materials ($500)
$1,000
Debra Nadelhoffer
Afternoon Walk
Best Signature Award of Excellence
Artwork Archive Lifetime Master Account
$1,250
Derek W. Penix OPA
Julian Apples
Members� Choice Signature Member Award of Excellence
18 color set of M. Graham Artist Oil Paints ($340) and Merchandise certificate funded by SourceTek ($250)
$590
Anna R. Bain OPA
Curiosity and Chaos
Presidents� Award of Excellence
Cash donation funded by Past Presidents Betty Schmidt and Zhiwei Tu OPAM
$1,000
Pavel Sokov
Worship of the Ganga
Still Life Award of Excellence
Cash donation funded by Bella Muse Productions ($500) and Merchandise certificate funded by Cheap Joe�s Art Stuff ($500)
$1,000
Jared Brady
Peaches and Cream
John August Dietrich Memorial Figurative Award of Excellence
Cash donation funded by RayMar Art
$1,000
Richard S. Johnson
The Garden Swing
Realism Award of Excellence
Cash donation funded by FASO
$1,000
Michael Aitken
Summer Clouds
Impressionist Honorable Mention
Merchandise certificate funded by Golden Artist Colors, Inc.
$500
Patrick Saunders OPA
Bars & Bikes, Amsterdam
Portraiture Honorable Mention
A selection of Rembrandt Oils and/or Cobra Artist Oils donated by Royal Talens North America
$500
Britton R. Snyder
Tomorrows
Landscape Honorable Mention
Merchandise certificates funded by Airfloat Systems ($250) and Ampersand Art Supply ($250)
$500
Hillary Scott
Morning Mystique
Figurative Honorable Mention
Merchandise certificates funded by Rosemary & Co. Artist Brushes ($250) and ArtFrames ($250)
$500
Seth Tummins
Independence Day
Realism Honorable Mention
Merchandise certificate funded by Dixon Ticonderoga Company (Maimeri Puro)
$500
Joseph V. Iantorno OPA
Woven and Maize
Still Life Honorable Mention
Merchandise certificates funded by Blue Ridge Oil Colors ($250) and Liliedahl Video Productions ($250)
$500
Daniel J. Keys
October Harvest
Seascape Honorable Mention
Merchandise certificate funded by JFM Enterprises
$500
Patrick Okrasinski
Summer Coast

Master Signature

AWARDS AND DONORSVALUEWINNERPAINTING TITLE
Gold Medal Award
Funded by OPA and Friends of OPA (Eligibility only once every two years for the same artist)
$7,500
Daniel Gerhartz OPAM
What is Left Unsaid
Silver Medal Award
Funded by American Art Collector Magazine - two-page feature article on award winner
$6,800
Huihan Liu OPAM
Taos Light
Bronze Medal Award
Funded by Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine - one full-page advertisement
$3,995
Johanna Harmon OPAM
Jeweled Garden
Impressionist Award of Excellence
Merchandise certificate funded by Blue Ridge Oil Colors
$500
Calvin Liang OPAM
A View from La Jolla
Most Original Award of Excellence
Funded by Southwest Art Magazine - one full-page advertisement
$3,380
John Michael Carter OPAM
Considerations
Realism Award of Excellence
Merchandise certificate funded by Michael Harding Handmade Oil Colours
$500
Jeff Legg OPAM
Carpe Diem
Shirl Smithson Founders� Award for Master Signature Members
Cash donation funded by the Shirl Smithson Family
$500
James Tennison OPAM
Pacific Madrone

Driehaus Award

The Dorothy Driehaus Mellin Fellowship for Midwestern Artists
$20,000
Marc Anderson
Early Bird Special

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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