Cornell Prize Explained

The Cornell Prize was the major contemporary art prize offered in South Australia and was presented as an exhibition by the Contemporary Art Society of South Australia from 1951 to 1965.^[1] It was administered by the Cornell family. Several of the prize-winning paintings were subsequently acquired by the Art Gallery of South Australia.

Winners include:

• Wladyslaw Dutkiewicz (Summertime, 1951 and Orient, 1955)^[2]
• Douglas Roberts (Connoisseurs, 1952)^[3]
• Ludwik Dutkiewicz (Boats after Storm, 1953 and Green Village 1954)^{[4] [5]}
• Francis Roy Thompson (Design with Coloured people, 1956)^{[6] [7] [8]}
• Stanislaw Ostoja-Kotkowski (Form in Landscape, 1957 and Buildings, 1959)^[9]
• Jacqueline Hick (Lost tribe, 1958 and Corridor, 1960)^[10]
• Barbara Hanrahan (1961)^[11]
• Udo Sellbach (1962)
• Geoff Wilson (1963)
• Franz Kempf (1964)^[12]
• Lynn Collins (1965)

Notes and References

1. News: Francis . Ivor . ART PAINTINGS GRADED . . 57 . 8,715 . South Australia . 14 July 1951 . 31 July 2019 . 4 . National Library of Australia. The new F. Cornell Art Prize is the first prize to be awarded at an exhibition by this society. A mixed panel of laymen and artists will award the prize to the most outstanding work. Judges are Messrs. R. G. Campbell, Kym Bonython, Max Harris, Joseph Choate, and Miss Dorrit Black..
2. News: Music Art Theatre . . 94 . 28,947 . South Australia . 21 July 1951 . 31 July 2019 . 7 . National Library of Australia.
3. News: Art Essential In Modern Life . . 95 . 29,254 . South Australia . 16 July 1952 . 31 July 2019 . 4 . National Library of Australia.
4. News: Brothers Vie For Art Prize . . 96 . 29,564 . South Australia . 15 July 1953 . 31 July 2019 . 3 . National Library of Australia.
5. News: Refused Prizemoney . . 97 . 29,874 . South Australia . 14 July 1954 . 31 July 2019 . 4 . National Library of Australia.
6. Web site: Dutkiewicz . Adam Jan . Francis Roy Thompson . The Dutkiewicz Archive . 8 August 2014 . 3 September 2021.
7. Web site: McDonald . Patrick . The slapstick clown who mastered colour on canvas . . 8 August 2014 . 3 September 2021.
8. Web site: The Art of Francis Roy Thompson: Vital Signs . The Adelaide Review. John . Neylon . 10 September 2014 . 3 September 2021.
9. Web site: Stanislaus Ostoja-Kotkowski b. 28 December 1922 . Design & Art Australia Online . 31 July 2019 . 2012.
10. Web site: Hick, Jacqueline (1919-) . Trove . National Library of Australia . 31 July 2019.
11. Web site: Lindsay . Elaine . Hanrahan, Barbara Janice (1939–1991) . Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography .,Australian National University . 31 July 2019 . 2014.
12. Book: Grishin . Sasha . Dutkiewicz . Adam . Kempf . Franz . Smith . Robert . Franz Kempf: Thinking on Paper, 1955-2002. 2002. Wakefield Press. 978-1-86254-592-2. 6 & 63.