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...choicest plum for a U. S. art student who is unmarried and not over 30 is the Prix de Rome. It gives the winner two idyllic years at the American Academy in Rome, is worth about $4,000. In 1912 one of the winners was Eugene Francis Savage, a graduate of Gonzaga College in Washington, D. C., who painted "sanitary," hard-profiled. Italianate pictures. They showed just what the Prix de Rome conditions asked for: "A keen understanding of the qualities which give to the classics . . . their universal appeal, of the technical methods by which those qualities were secured...
Yale School once more swept the Prix de Rome with three winners, losing only the award in landscape architecture, not a Yale specialty...
Last week Winners Green, Proctor and Lister went to Manhattan to be with their winning entries in the Prix de Rome show at the Grand Central Art Galleries. Confronted with a microphone they spoke a few words of modest thankfulness for the two idyllic years ahead...
Tribune and onetime director of Herbert Hoover's Reconstruction Finance Corp. A Dartmouth graduate, Son Russell won the Prix de Rome as a muralist about 20 years ago. His later rebellion against the stiffness of academic tradition is still a driving force behind his constant technical experiments. In the Cairo American Express office seven years ago he met the former Women's Page Editor of the New York Sun, eloped with her within two weeks to Munich. He has spent six months in Bali, lives part of every year in Santa Fe. Of his painted abstractions last week...
Awarded to Pulitzer Prize Novelist Caroline Miller for her first & only book, Lamb in His Bosom, was France's Prix Femina for U. S. authors. Mrs. Miller will receive no cash prize but a free translation of her novel into French...