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June 29?Grand Prix de Paris races; at Longchamp, France...
...Prix de Rome...
...year, that at the end of his studies he may expect a job in a good architect's office or an instructorship in a reputable school, that he may well become a Great Architect. Among famed U. S. architects who have run washes and prepared esquisses as Prix-winners at the American Academy are John Russell Pope and William S. Covell. Announced last week as 1930 Prix winner was Walter Louis Reichardt, 22, of Los Angeles, who graduates this month from the University of Pennsylvania School of Fine Arts...
...paintings and statuary which win for their makers the famed Prix de Rome ($1,600 per year, plus a studio, and three years of study in the American Academy at Rome) are always scholarly, conservative. Those which were announced last week to have captured the awards for 1930 were religious as well. William Marks Simpson Jr., the winning sculptor, made a youthful, upright image of St. Francis of Assisi benignly inspecting a bird. Salvatore De Maio, Prix-winning painter, achieved an interesting composition called The Complete Sacrifice, the figures of Christ, Mary and Mary Magdalene forming oblique patterns with...
Painter De Maio, 22, is the sixth successive student of the Yale School of Fine Arts to win the Prix de Rome in painting. Greatly pleasing is this to the School's rotund, genial Dean Everett Victor Meeks, to its prime teacher, famed mural painter Eugene Francis Savage, who so thoroughly imparts his theories, style and the principles of his luminous palette to his pupils that their work is frequently censured as being only an echo of Mr. Savage's. Painter De Maio is one of 13 children of a retired musician. To meet the expenses...