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JURY OF SELECTION AND AWARD
Robert M. Church, Director, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma Conrad Albrizio, Associate Professor of Painting, Louisiana State University Robert D. Straus, Honorary Curator of Oriental Art, Museum of Fine Arts of Houston FACTS ABOUT THE EXHIBITION A total of 574 works by 338 Texas artists was entered in the exhibition this year. From these the jury selected 119 works by 104 artists to be exhibited. The entries represented 64 communities in the state of Texas. AWARDS FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION PRIZE OF $100.00 FOR WATERCOLOR OR GOUACHE DAVID ADICKES, Houston for gouache painting "Harlequins" HUMBLE OIL AND REFINING COMPANY PRIZE OF $100.00 ELOY VELOZ, Houston for stone sculpture "Figuria de Piedra" HUMBLE OIL AND REFINING COMPANY PRIZE OF $100.00 REILLY NAIL, Fort Worth for oil painting "From the Forests Shook Three Summers' Pride" FOLEY'S OF HOUSTON PRIZE OF $100.00 FULTON GERKE, San Antonio for oil painting "Rest" PRIZE OF $50.00 GIVEN BY MR. AND MRS. ROBERT D. STRAUS, HOUSTON JANET TURNER, Nacogdoches for egg tempera painting "Tomorrow's Stairs" MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS OF HOUSTON PRIZE OF $50.00 FRED A. WINCHELL, Houston for oil painting "Portrait of Dorothy Bradford" SAN ANTONIO ART LEAGUE PRIZE OF $50.00 JERRY SCHOFIELD, Dallas for oil painting "The Gallery" DALLAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS PRIZE OF $50.00 WILLIAM LESTER, Austin for oil painting "The Empty Net"
Fact sheet from the exhibition, "13th Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition," November 25–December 16, 1951, held at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts and other venues.
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