Helena Rubinstein portrait prize, also known as "Boans – Helena Rubinstein portrait prize", was an annual prize of £300 for portraiture by an Australian artist, awarded by the Helena Rubinstein Foundation (disbanded 2011), and mostly staged at the Claude Hotchin Gallery in Western Australia. It is likely that the prize ceased in 1966, but there is a reference to Robert Juniper winning in 1976 with "Portrait of Rose"[1]
List of Winners
edit- 1958: Frank Hodgkinson
- 1960: Charles Blackman[2] (another reference has Romola Clifton)[3]
- 1961: William Boissevain
- 1962: Margaret Olley
- 1963: Vladas Meskenas with a double portrait of Weaver Hawkins and his wife.[4]
- 1964: Judy Cassab for a portrait of art collector Oscar Edwards[5]
- 1965: Judy Cassab
- 1966: J. Carington Smith[2]
References
edit- ^ Jenny Gregory and Jan Gothard (eds.) Historical Encyclopedia of Western Australia Crawley, UWAP Press ISBN 978-1-921401-15-2
- ^ a b McCulloch, Alan Encyclopedia of Australian Art Hutchinson of London 1968
Later editions of this reference work fail to mention this once prestigious award. - ^ "Rubinstein art prize". The Canberra Times. 12 May 1965. p. 23. Retrieved 24 March 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "N.S.W. Artist Wins Prize". The Canberra Times. 11 June 1963. p. 3. Retrieved 24 March 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Portrait Prize to Judy Cassab". The Canberra Times. 10 June 1964. p. 20. Retrieved 24 March 2014 – via National Library of Australia.