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About Our Awards
Medal of Honor Medallion
created by Victor David Brenner (1871-1924)
This award is given once a year at the Members’
Exhibition. It has been established to recognize one
work that complements and ampli昀椀es awards given
for speci昀椀c media, subjects or genres with a forward-looking eye and sensitivity to fresh approaches
in 昀椀ne art. As always, and no less with this award, the
CLWAC Board of Directors seeks to have all work
in its exhibitions meet the highest standards of creativity,
professionalism and connoisseurship.
This is the Club’s highest award, given at the Annual Open
Exhibition since 1962. It is awarded in four categories, provided there
are at least 25 artworks in each: oil/acrylic, watermedia,
pastel/graphic/mixed media, and sculpture.
The allegorical 昀椀gure of a classically attired standing woman
holds a pallette, a mahlstick, and a winged statuette, symbolizing
painting, sculpture, and by extension all the visual arts.
The sculptor, Victor David Brenner, was
born in 1871 in Shavli, Russia, and came to the
United States in 1890. Among his innumerable
works is a long list of medals and plaques including:
The Municipal Art Society Award Medal, The
American Institute of Architects Seal Medal, the
Boston Surgical Society, The Peace Plaque, and
two bronze plaques of Lincoln and Washington, situated
in the lobby of the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, City-County Building.
Brenner was also the designer of the Lincoln Cent, issued in 1909.
Anna Hyatt Huntington
Bronze Medal created by Sally Swan Carr
Creative Hands
Award created by Lucille C. Hampton
This award, given in the same categories
as the Medal of Honor, was created in 1970 by then
CLWAC Vice President Sally Swan Carr in recognition
of Anna Hyatt Huntington’s outstanding career
and her generosity and dedication to CLWAC. The
award was established with funds donated by Huntington
herself and continues to honor her each year.
Sally Swan Carr, who served as CLWAC’s
President from 1971 to 1974, was herself a distinguished
sculptor. Working in stone, wood, and bronze, she
had many commissioned works in the United States and
Europe. The Anna Hyatt Huntington Bronze Medal
is also in the collection of the American Numismatic
Society in New York.
This small, gold-covered bronze sculpture
is awarded each year to one of CLWAC’s
Members or supporters who has sel昀氀essly
contributed to making possible the work
of the Club and its exhibitions.
Lucille C. Hampton, a long-time Member of CLWAC,
is a sculptor of distinction, represented in prestigious
galleries and with many commissions. Her years of contact with
both collectors and patrons of the arts led her to appreciate the
contributions made by those who work behind the scene, above
and beyond the call of duty. In 1984 she sculpted this award,
inspired by Michelangelo’s “Creation,” to recognize those who
help bring life to creative work. Lucille was our Honored
Member in 1994.
Artist Laureate Award
Horse’s Head
Award created by Anna Hyatt Huntington (1876-1973)
CLWAC
Board of Directors Award
created by Board Member Emeritus Jeanette Koumjian
To coincide with the Club’s 125th
Anniversary and each year going forward,
this enameled medallion will honor those
who, over an extended period, have been dedicated
to the eloquent expression of their creative vision,
encouraged innovation, strengthened the broader art
community through service, shared their experience
with peers and, through their generosity of spirit,
commitment, perseverance, and grace enhanced the
future of all women artists.
This award is given annually at CLWAC’s
Members’ Exhibition for the best sculpture and
2-dimensional works. Anna Hyatt Huntington
created it in 1966 expressly to be awarded at
the Members’ Exhibitions, and it is representative
of the innumerable ways in which this most distinguished
sculptor, one of America’s most outstanding, contributed to
CLWAC in both creative and practical ways over many years.
She was an Honorary Member, and in appreciation, CLWAC
also named her an Honored Member in 1969, 1972, and 1973.
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