- Sir John Sulman Prize
The Sir John Sulman Prize is one of
Australia 's longest running art prizes, having been establish in 1936.It is now held concurrently with the
Archibald Prize , Australia's best known art prize, and also with theWynne Prize , at theArt Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW),Sydney .Criteria
The Sir John Sulman Prize is awarded each year for "the best subject/genre painting and/or murals/mural project executed during the two years preceding the [closing] date", and as of 2008 is valued at $20,000. Media may be acrylic, oil, watercolour or mixed media, and applicants must have been resident in Australia for five years. [http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/aboutus/art_prizes "Major art prizes: Sir John Sulman Prize"] ,
Art Gallery of New South Wales . Retrieved7 August 2008 .]The definition of the terms as given by the AGNSW is: :A genre painting is normally a composition representing some aspect or aspects of everyday life, and may feature figurative, still-life, interior or figure-in-landscape themes. A subject painting, in contrast to a genre painting, is idealised or dramatised. Typically, a subject painting takes its theme from history, poetry, mythology or religion. In both cases, however, the style may be figurative, representative, abstract or semi-abstract. A mural is a picture that is affixed directly to a wall or ceiling, as part of an architectural and/or decorative scheme.
List of winners
*1940 - Harold Abbott - Vaucluse Interior (painting)
*1941 -Douglas Annand - Historical Mural at Bathurst Public School
*1942 -Jean Bellette - For Whom the Bell Tolls (painting)
*1943 -Elaine Haxton - Mural at le Coq D'Or Restaurant, Sydney
*1944 -Jean Bellette - Iphigenia in Tauris (painting)
*1945 -Virgil Lo Schiavo - Tribute to Shakespeare, Mural at Sydney University Union
*1946 -Sali Herman - Natives carrying wounded soldiers (painting)
*1947 -Douglas Annand - Mural, Messrs. Jantzen (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Lidcombe.
*1948 -Sali Herman - The Drovers (painting)
*1949 -J. Carrington Smith - Bush Pastoral, Mural design for New State Building, Hobart
*1950 -Harold Greenhill - Summer Holiday (painting)
*1951 -Douglas Annand - Mural, Restaurant, R.M.S. "Oronsay"
*1952 -Charles Doutney - Darlinghurst Road (painting)
*1953 - Eric Smith - Convicts Berrima 1839, Mural at Old Court House, Berrima
*1954 -Wallace Thornton - Sculptor and Model (painting)
*1955 -Wesley Penberthy - Oriental Mural (mural design)
*1956 -Harold Greenhill - Prawning at Night (genre painting)
*1957 -Michael Kmit - The Voice of Silence (subject painting)
*1958 - No Award
*1959 - Susan Wright - The Circus (genre painting)
*1960 -Leonard French - The Burial (subject painting)
*1961 -Robin Norling - Sea Movement and Rocks (mural design)
*1962 - John Rigby - Children Dancing (genre painting)
*1963 -Roy Fluke - Spring Walk (subject painting)
*1964 -Ken Reinhard - The Private Public Preview (genre painting)
*1965 -Gareth Jones-Roberts - Grape-pickers and Vineyards (subject painting)
*1966 -Louis James - It's Hot in Town (genre painting)
*1967 -Cec Burns - Exercise in Variegation (subject painting)
*1968 -Tim Storrier - Suzy 350 (genre painting)
*1969 -Louis James - Spyhole (subject painting)
*1970 -Michael Kmit - Philopena (genre painting)
*1971 -James Meldrum - Pyramid Shelf (subject painting)
*1972 -Peter Powditch - Sun-torso 128 (Bunch) (genre painting)
*1973 - Eric Smith - The Painter Transmogrified and Mrs. Smith (subject painting)
*1974 -Keith Looby - Still Life and Comf-Victor Morrison - Western Suburbs Magi (subject painting) Public Art Squad Think Globally, Act Locally (D. Humphries and R. Monk) (mural: George Street, Redfern)
*1977 -Salvatore Zofrea
*1979 -Salvatore Zofrea
*1982 -Salvatore Zofrea
*1986 -Wendy Sharpe - Black Sun - Morning and Night,Nigel Thomson - The State Institution
*1987 -Marcus Beilby - Crutching the Ewes,Bob Marchant - The Grand Parade Sydney Show
*1988 -Bob Marchant - Catching rabbits and yabbies at 5 mile dam
*1989 - John Olsen - Don Quixote Enters the Inn
*1990 -Robert Hollingworth - Going Away/Looking Back
*1991/92 - Kevin Connor - Najaf (Iraq) June 1991
*1992/93 -John Montefiore - Life Series
*1993/94 -Noel McKenna - Boy Dressed as Batman 2 (Diptych)
*1995 -Juli Haas - By the Banks of Her Own Lagoon
*1996 -Aida Tomescu - Grey-to-Grey
*1997 - Kevin Connor - The Man with itchy fingers and other figures Gare du Nord
*1998 -Robert Jacks - Changed into a weeping willow
*1999 -Anne Wallace - Secret Paintings
*2000 -John Peart - Snailsnake
*2001 -Euan Macleod - Exquisite Corpse with Fire, Highly commended: Elisabeth Cummings Harbour Light
*2002 -Guan Wei - Gazing into deep space no. 9 The Judge, John Wolseley would like to make special mention of the work by John Walker The drinkers
*2003 - Eric Smith - Reflection
*2004 -Allan Mitelman - Untitled
*2005 -Sandro Nocentini - My son has two mothers [http://www.nocentini.com/2005/05,SonHas2Mothers.jpgImage]
*2006 -Jiawei Shen - Peking treaty 1901 [http://www.thearchibaldprize.com.au/__data/page/8164/winner_sulman700.jpgImage]Notes and references
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