List of Hallgarten Prize-winning painters

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The Julius Hallgarten Prizes (defunct) were a trio of prestigious art prizes awarded by the National Academy of Design from 1884 to 2008. They recognized outstanding works exhibited in NAD's Annual Exhibition by American painters under age 35. A prize was awarded in each of three classes—the First Hallgarten for the best oil painting in the annual exhibition, the Second Hallgarten for the second-best, and the Third Hallgarten for the third-best. The winners were chosen by a vote of all the artists participating in each year's exhibition, and the prizes were accompanied by a cash award.[1]

Two Studies of Julius Hallgarten (1884) by Daniel Huntington, Cooper Hewitt Museum

Winning a Hallgarten could give a tremendous boost to the career of a young painter. The prizes were held in especially high regard because the winners were selected by one's fellow artists.

The National Academy of Design's annual exhibitions became biennial in 2002.[2] The last Hallgarten Prizes were awarded in 2008.

Julius Hallgarten

The prizes were established through a $12,000 endowment created in 1883 by stockbroker Julius Hallgarten (1840–1884).[3]

The late Mr. JULIUS HALLGARTEN, of New York, endowed prizes of three hundred, two hundred and one hundred dollars, to be awarded respectively to the painters of the best three pictures in oil colors exhibited at each Annual Exhibition, under the following conditions:
"All works will be considered to be in competition which have been painted in the United States by an American citizen under thirty-five years of age, and which have not before been publicly exhibited in the City or vicinity of New York. No competitor may take two prizes, or a prize of the same class a second time.
"The awards will be made by vote by ballot of all the Exhibitors of the season … Each artist will be entitled to one vote at each ballot, specifying his choice for each one of the three prizes, and each prize will be awarded to the painting receiving the highest number of votes for that prize, but no work will be entitled to the prize unless at least fifty of the exhibitors vote at the ballot, and the work receive one-third of all the votes cast."[1]

Other Hallgarten Prizes

Julius Hallgarten also created an endowment of $5,000 for the National Academy of Design School of Art.[3] Student winners of the Julius Hallgarten School Prize and Alfred N. Hallgarten Traveling Scholarship do not belong on this list.

Painters and works

1884–1929

Year
Exhibition
ClassArtistWorkImageCurrent locationNotes
1884
59th
FirstLouis MoellerPuzzled[4][5]
SecondCharles Yardley TurnerThe Courtship of Miles Standish [6][7]
ThirdWilliam Bliss BakerWoodland Brook—Decline of an Autumn DayMontreal Museum of Fine Arts,
Montreal, Quebec
1885
60th
FirstHarry ChaseNew York Harbor—North River Katzen Arts Center,
American University,
Washington D.C
[8]
Ex collection: Corcoran Gallery of Art[9]
SecondJohn Francis MurphyTints of a Vanished Past[10][11]
ThirdDennis Miller BunkerA Bohemian de Young Museum,
San Francisco, California
[12]
1886
61st
FirstEdward Percy MoranDivided Attention
SecondWilliam Anderson CoffinMoonlight in Harvest[13]
ThirdIrving Ramsay WilesThe Corner Table [14]
Auctioned at Christie's NY, 4 December 2003, Lot 33.[15]
1887
62nd
FirstAlfred KappesBuckwheat Cakes Kappes was later disqualified because he was over age
35.[16]
SecondWalter Launt PalmerJanuary [17]
ThirdDwight William TryonLandscape: A Lighted VillageFreer Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C.
[18]
Tryon was later disqualified because he was over age
35.[19]
1888
63rd
FirstGeorge de Forest BrushThe Sculptor and the King Portland Art Museum,
Portland, Oregon
[20][21]
SecondHenry Rankin PooreFoxhounds [22]
ThirdCharles Courtney CurranA Breezy Day Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
[23][24]
1889
64th
FirstRobert Van Vorst SewellSea Urchins
SecondKenyon CoxNovember[25]
ThirdFrank Weston BensonOrpheus[26]
1890
65th
FirstNo award"Although the triple prize the National Academy of
Design has inherited from the late Julius Hallgarten
was not awarded in 1890, neither in 1891, nor in 1892,
hope ever springs in the breasts of exhibitors at the
annual show that they will be awarded after to-day."[27]
SecondNo award
ThirdNo award
1891
66th
FirstNo award
SecondNo award
ThirdNo award
1892
67th
FirstNo award
SecondNo award
ThirdNo award
1893
68th
FirstCharles Morgan McIlhennyGray Morning[28]
SecondEdward August BellThe Five Dreamers[29]
ThirdHenry PrellwitzThe Prodigal Son[30]
1894
69th
FirstEdmund TarbellAn Arrangement in Pink and Grey
(Afternoon Tea)
Worcester Art Museum,
Worcester, Massachusetts
[31]
SecondEdith MitchillHagar and Ishmael[32]
Mitchill and Murphy were the first two women awarded
Hallgarten Prizes.
ThirdAda Clifford MurphyThat Difficult World
1895
70th
FirstGeorge Randolph BarseA Tribute to Satyr[33]
SecondCharles Courtney CurranThe Enchanted Shore[23][34]
ThirdFrancis DayPatience
1896
71st
FirstMary Brewster HazeltonIn a StudioHazelton was the first woman awarded a First Hallgarten
Prize.
SecondJohn Henry HatfieldAfter the Bath
ThirdLouise Howland King CoxPomona[35]
1897
72nd
FirstWilbur Aaron ReaserMother and Child
SecondLeo MoellerA Patriot at Valley Forge
ThirdCharles Edward ProctorGrandpa
1898
73rd
FirstRobert ReidDawn
SecondHarry RoselandAn Important Letter[36]
ThirdWalter C. HartshornThe Keepsake
1899
74th
FirstGeorge Henry BogertSeptember Evening Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York City
[37][38]
SecondLouis Paul DessarPortrait: Mrs. Ruthrauff[39]
ThirdCarle John BlennerThe Letter
1900
75th
FirstLouis Paul DessarLandscape with Sheep[39]
SecondE. Irving CouseAlong the Quay[40]
ThirdWalter Granville-SmithThe Light of the House[41]
1901
76th
FirstWalter Elmer SchofieldWinter EveningMuriel and Philip Berman Museum of Art,
Ursinus College,
Collegeville, Pennsylvania
[42]: 464 
SecondClara Taggart MacChesneyA Good Story: Portrait of Robert Loftin Newman Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Washington, D.C.
[43]
ThirdMatilda BrowneRepose[42]: 106 
1902
77th
FirstE. Irving CouseThe Peace Pipe Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York City
[40][44]
SecondLouis LoebThe Mother[45]
ThirdWill Howe FooteThe Blue Vase[46]
1903
78th
FirstHarry Mills WalcottAt the Party[42]: 523 
SecondWilliam Fair KlineLeda and the Swan[47]
ThirdBelle HavensThe Last Load[42]: 253 
1904
79th
FirstCharles Webster HawthorneGirl in GreenUniversity of Kentucky Art Museum,
Lexington, Kentucky
[48][49]
SecondLouise Howland King CoxThe Sisters[35]
ThirdSamuel Johnson WoolfFinale[42]: 553 
1905
80th
FirstF. Luis MoraThe Letter[42]: 365 
SecondGustave Adolph WiegandMoonrise, Early Spring Brooklyn Museum,
Brooklyn, New York City
[50]
ThirdMartin PetersenCuriosity Seekers[51]
1906
81st
FirstNo awardDewitt M. Lockman was initially awarded the First
Hallgarten for Partiality, but the artist was disqualified
because he was over age 35.[52]
SecondCharles Webster HawthorneStill LifeSwope Art Museum,
Terra Haute, Indiana
[48][53]
ThirdClark VoorheesSpring Afternoon[42]: 521 
1907
82nd
FirstWilliam CottonThe Princess[54]
SecondHugo BallinThe Three Ages[55]
ThirdEleanor C. A. WinslowThe Necklace[42]: 549 
1908
83rd
FirstErnest LawsonIce on the Hudson[56]
SecondGeorge Wesley BellowsNorth River Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
[57][58]
ThirdWilliam Wallace Gilchrist Jr.Daughter and Doll[59]
1909
84th
FirstDaniel GarberHorses[60]
SecondCharles BittingerAfter the Ball[61]
ThirdBen Ali HagginElfrida[62]
1910
85th
FirstGifford BealThe Palisades[63]
SecondLouis David VaillantWoodland Play[42]: 512 
ThirdCharles RosenSummer BreezeBill Memorial Library,
Groton, Connecticut
[64]
1911
86th
FirstLillian GenthDepths of the Woods Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Washington, D.C.
[65]
SecondJoseph Thurman Pearson Jr.A Group of Geese [65]
ThirdLeslie Prince ThompsonTea[65]
1912
87th
FirstCharles RosenA Rocky LedgeEx collection: Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan[66]
SecondEverett WarnerAlong the River Front Toledo Museum of Art,
Toledo, Ohio
[67]
ThirdEliot Candee ClarkUnder the Trees[68][69]
1913
88th
FirstGeorge Wesley BellowsLittle Girl in White (Queenie Burnett) National Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C.
[57][70]
SecondRobert SpencerThe Silk Mill [71][72]
ThirdM. Jean McLaneBrother and Sister: Portrait of Virginia and
Stanton Arnold
[42]: 339 
1914
89th
FirstJonas LieAfterglowArt Institute of Chicago,
Chicago, Illinois
[73]
SecondRae Sloan BredinMidsummer[74]
ThirdEugene SpeicherPortrait of John Nelson Cole, Jr.[75]
1915
90th
FirstEugene SpeicherBetalo[42]: 484 
SecondRandall DaveyPortrait of a Young Lady: Mildred CowingArt Institute of Chicago,
Chicago, Illinois
[76][77]
ThirdRobert H. NisbetLingering Summer[42]: 384 
1916
91st
FirstArthur CrispThe Strollers[78]
SecondChristine Herter KendallStudy of Light and Shadow[42]: 260 
ThirdJohn Fulton FolinsbeeWinter Quiet[79]
1917
92nd
FirstHoward Everett SmithPortrait of Bela Pratt [80][81]
SecondJohn Fulton FolinsbeeCanal in WinterNational Arts Club,
New York City
[82]
ThirdSidney Edward DickinsonUnrest[83][81]
1918
93rd
FirstLeopold SeyffertLacquer ScreenPennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
[84][85]
SecondLazar RaditzSelf-PortraitPennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
[86]
ThirdFelix RussmannThe Black Bottle[42]: 452 
1919
94th
FirstRobert Strong WoodwardBetween the Setting Sun and Rising MoonPurchased by a Hallgarten family member, for $500.[87]
SecondErcole CartottoPortrait of Miss Marion Ryder[42]: 120 
ThirdDines CarlsenThe Jade Bowl[88][89]
1920
95th
FirstArmin Carl HansenA Boy with a CodLos Angeles County Museum of Art,
Los Angeles, California
[90][91]
SecondKentaro KatoPortrait of a Young Woman[42]: 296 
ThirdJohn E. CostiganGroup[92]
1921
96th
FirstRoss MoffettThe Old Fisherman[42]: 363 
SecondFelicie Waldo HowellOctober[93]
ThirdWilliam Auerbach-LevyPortrait of Michael Brennen[94]
1922
97th
FirstAldro HibbardLate February[95]
SecondRobert PhilippPortrait of Himself (Self-Portrait)[42]: 422 
ThirdLouis RitmanSunlit Window Indianapolis Museum of Art,
Indianapolis, Indiana
[96]
1923
98th
FirstJohn Fulton FolinsbeeBy the Upper LockSmithsonian American Art Museum,
Washington, D.C.
[97]
SecondDines CarlsenThe Flemish Tapestry[88][89]
ThirdFred NaglerA Naturalist[98]
1924
99th
FirstSidney Edward DickinsonAmy[83][99]
SecondDouglass Ewell ParshallThe Great Surge[100][99]
ThirdDorothy OchtmanAn Old Brass Kettle[99][101]
1925
100th
FirstClarence Raymond JohnsonLumberville Lock[42]: 289 
SecondStanley W. WoodwardMid-Ocean[102]
ThirdJerry FarnsworthHelen[103][42]: 195 
1926
101st
FirstJes Wilhelm SchlaikjerThe Pink Cameo[104]
SecondJay Hall ConnawayThe Giant[105][104]
ThirdCarl W. PetersView from a Window[104]
1927
102nd
FirstAntonio Pietro MartinoWinterWoodmere Art Museum,
Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
[106][107]
SecondDouglas Ewell ParshallThe Red Sail[108][100]
ThirdJerry FarnsworthJoaquin's Boys[103][108]
1928
103rd
FirstCarl LawlessIn the Mountains[104]
SecondCarl W. PetersAround the Bend[104]
ThirdGeorge Byron BrowneOld Iron, Copper, Etc.Destroyed by the artist.[109]First African-American to win a Hallgarten Prize.[42]: 105 

NAD's website erroneously lists George Elmer Browne
as the winner.[110]
1929
104th
FirstEthel "Polly" Thayer StarrCircles[111][112]
SecondArthur Hill GilbertOld Oak, Monterey[113][112]
ThirdMalcolm HumphreysFishing Fleet[112]

1930–1969

Year
Exhibition
ClassArtistWorkImageCurrent locationNotes
1930
105th
FirstFrancis Wayland SpeightThe Day's Work Done[114][115][42]: 485 
SecondFrancis ChapinCedarburg, Saturday Afternoon[116][117]
ThirdHenry HenscheTea Time[118]
1931
106th
FirstPaul TrebilcockTwo Women[119][120]
SecondPaul SampleDairy Ranch[121]
ThirdCarl WoolseyWinter Moonlight[122][123]
1932
107th
FirstNo award[124]
SecondJes Wilhelm SchlaikjerThe Little Ones[104]
ThirdCarl W. PetersBarnyard[104]
1933
108th
FirstWilliam Newport GoodellPastoral[125][42]: 226 
SecondCatherine Morris WrightBefore the Party[126][42]: 554 
ThirdJunius AllenGuinea Docks: Gloucester[127][42]: 53 
1934
109th
FirstRuth WilcoxBonnets[128]
SecondCathol O'TooleInterior of the Metropolitan[128][129]
ThirdJoseph HirschMasseur TomClay Center for the Arts and Sciences,
Charleston, West Virginia
[128][130]
1935
110th
FirstCathol O'TooleConglomeration[129]
SecondFerdinand E. WarrenMontauk Lighthouse on Turtle Hill[42]: 527 
ThirdKeith Shaw WilliamsThe Red Print[131][132]
1936
111th
FirstMaurice BlumenfeldRefreshments[133] Blumenfeld was the youngest person ever awarded a
Hallgarten Prize. He was 17, and had studied for only four
months at the Art Students League of New York.[134]
SecondHarold BlackExpress Track[133]
ThirdNan GreacenSome Things on a Table[135][133]
1937
112th
FirstAntonio Pietro MartinoCathedral[136][106]
SecondMaurice AbramsonStill Life[136]
ThirdTosca OlinskyFlowers[136]
1938
113th
FirstClyde SingerBarn Dance[137][138][139][140]
SecondOgden PleissnerSouth Pass City (Wyoming Ghost Town)[141][138]
ThirdRobert Edward WeaverWagon 97[142][138]
1939No awardsNo Annual Exhibition due to the 1939 New York World's Fair
1940
114th
FirstVerona BurkhardKinzer's Place[42]: 111 
SecondNicholas U. ComitoFig Leaves and Fruit[143]
ThirdSoss MelikHis Library[42]: 356 
1941
115th
FirstStokely WebsterIn the Park[42]: 531 
SecondHenrik MayerHalloween Carnival[144][42]: 350 
ThirdPaul C. BurnsSuburban Mail[42]: 112 
1942
116th
FirstHananiah HarariMan's Boudoir[42]: 246 
SecondSeymour FoxFish House: Interior[42]: 208 
ThirdStephen McNeeleyGirl Writing[42]: 355 
1943
117th
FirstGreta MatsonPat[42]: 349 
SecondHenry Martin GasserRocky Neck or Frog Hollow[145] Gasser exhibited 2 paintings, but Falk does not specify
which won the Second Hallgarten.[42]: 218 
ThirdTosca OlinskyStill Life[146]
1944
118th
FirstLouis di ValentinLadies Invited[147]
SecondPeter G. CookWeeds and Corn[148][149][150]
ThirdPaul Lewis ClemensRuth with Cat[42]: 134 
March 1945
119th
FirstNo award"As it developed, the three Hallgarten prizes, allocable to
artists under 35, were omitted 'because of the war and lack
of competition'."[151]

Following severe criticism, NAD mounted a second Annual
Exhibition in December 1945.[42]: 13 
SecondNo award
ThirdNo award
December 1945
120th
FirstPriscilla W. RobertsThe Unmade Bed[42]: 442 
SecondJohn PikeVillage Green[42]: 413 
ThirdRudolph PenSummer Landscape[42]: 405 
1946
121st
FirstNo award"For lack of suitable objects a total of $1,075 was withheld
this year in the form of three Hallgarten Prizes for artists
under thirty-five, the Truman Prize for a landscapist in the
same age bracket, and the Palmer Memorial Prize for best
marine."[152]
SecondNo award
ThirdNo award
1947
122nd
FirstNo award"The three Julius Hallgarten Prizes, the S. J. Wallace
Truman Prize and the Edwin Palmer Memorial Prize were
not awarded."[153]
SecondNo award
ThirdNo award
1948
123rd
FirstMartin JacksonTintype[154]
SecondJacob ArkushLeona[154]
ThirdRuth RayNavajo Land[155][154][156]
1949
124th
FirstPriscilla W. RobertsBird and Rose[42]: 442 
SecondGigi Ford PucciClotheslines[42]: 426 
ThirdJohn P. WheatRoad to Golgotha[157][42]: 535 
1950
125th
FirstSperry AndrewsBallet Dancer[42]: 56 
SecondRichard BovéNew York Scene[42]: 93 
ThirdJoseph L. LaskerPhoenix[158][159]: 205 
1951
126th
FirstEthel Magafan[160][159]: 210 
SecondWill Lamm
ThirdLeonard?
1952
127th
First
Second
Third
1953
128th
First
Second
ThirdJules Kirschenbaum[161][156]
1954
129th
FirstPaul W. Zimmerman[162][163]
Second
ThirdKeith Finch[156]
1955
130th
FirstJoseph L. Lasker[158][157]
SecondGlenn Bradshaw[164]
Third
1956
131st
First
Second
Third
1957
132nd
FirstColleen Browning, won one of the 1957 prizes[165][166]
Second
Third
1958
133rd
First
Second
Third
1959
134th
First
Second
Third
1960
135th
FirstDavid Levine won one of 1960 prizes[167][168]
Second
Third
1961
136th
FirstPaul Resika won one of the 1961 prizes[169][170]
Second
Third
1962
137th
FirstBruce Dorfman won one of the 1962 prizes[171]
Second
Third
1963
138th
FirstAuseklis Ozols won one of the 1963 prizes[172]
Second
Third
1964
139th
FirstPhilip Butler White won one of the 1964 prizes[173]
Auseklis Ozols won one of the 1964 prizes[172]
Second
Third
1965
140th
First
Second
Third
1966
141st
First
Second
Third
1967
142nd
FirstPhilip Butler White won one of the 1967 prizes[173]
Second
Third
1968
143rd
FirstPhilip Butler White won either a 1968 Hallgarten or Clarke
Prize[173] (conflicting sources)
Second
Third
1969
144th
First
Second
Third

1970–2008

Year
Exhibition
ClassArtistWorkImageCurrent locationNotes
1970
145th
First
Second
Third
1971
146th
FirstCharles Reid won one of the 1971 prizes[174][175]
Second
Third
1972
147th
FirstLarry Francis, PAFA instructor, won one of the 1972 prizes[176]
Paul Wiesenfeld won one of the 1972 prizes.[177]
Second
Third
1973
148th
FirstJerome Witkin[178]
Second
Third
1974
149th
FirstSaul Chase won one of the 1974 prizes[179]
Second
Third
1975
150th
FirstGary T. Erbe won one of the 1975 prizes[180]
Second
Third
1976
151st
FirstCharles Pfahl[181]
Second
Third
1977
152nd
FirstSaul Chase won one of the 1977 prizes.[179]
Second
Third
1978
153rd
First
Second
Third
1979
154th
First
Second
Third
1980
155th
First
Second
Third
1981
156th
FirstPhyllis Herfield won one of the 1981 prizes
Second
Third
1982
157th
FirstRichard Pantell won one of the 1982 prizes[182]
Gilbert Riou won one of the 1982 prizes
Charles Pfahl won one of the 1982 prizes
Second
Third
1983
158th
First
Second
Third
1984
159th
First
Second
Third
1985
160th
First
Second
Third
1986
161st
FirstThomas E. Dooley won one of the 1986 prizes for Gone to Supper
Second
Third
1987
162nd
First
Second
Third
1988
163rd
FirstValeri Larko won one of the 1988 prizes[183]
Henry Finkelstein won one of the 1988 prizes[184]
Alice Zinnes won one of the 1988 prizes[185]
Second
Third
1989
164th
First
Second
Third
1990
165th
FirstAlice Zinnes won one of the 1990 prizes[185]
Second
Third
1991
166th
First
Second
Third
1992
167th
FirstValeri Larko won one of the 1992 prizes[183]
Andrew S. Conklin won one of the 1992 prizes[186]
Jerry Weiss won one of the 1992 prizes[187]
Second
Third
1993
168th
First
Second
Third
1994
169th
FirstChristian Vincent[188]
Second
Third
1995
170th
First
Second
Third
1996
171st
FirstEran Reshef won one of the 1996 prizes[189]
Second
Third
1997
172nd
First
Second
Third
1998
173rd
FirstEric Aho won one of the 1998 prizes[190]
Second
Third
1999
174th
First
Second
Third
2000
175th
First
Second
Third
2001
176th
First
Second
Third
2002
177th
FirstBeginning in 2002, NAD's annual exhibitions became biennial,
with Hallgarten Prizes awarded only in even years. "Invitational"
exhibitions were mounted in odd years.[2]
Second
Third
2003
178th
No awardsInvitational Exhibition
2004
179th
First
Second
Third
2005
180th
No awardsInvitational Exhibition
2006
181st
FirstRachael Wren won one of the 2006 prizes[191][192]
Cynthia Sobel won one of the 2006 prizes.[193]
Second
Third
2007
182nd
No awardsInvitational Exhibition
2008
183rd
FirstBeau Chamberlain (b. 1976) won one of the 2008 prizes.[194]
Second
Third
2009
184th
No awardsInvitational Exhibition[2]

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