Every spring, at the completion of the student concours, the Art Students League begins a week-long series of judged competitions. Students can compete for around a dozen major grants that offer cash awards and for smaller merit awards that cover tuition for one full-time class. Merit awards are broken down into three stylistic categories: realism, abstraction, and semi-abstract/semi-objective. Here is a selection of work by the thirty-two merit award recipients for 2014 exhibited this past November in the Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery.
Ezra Cohen, Untitled. Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 48 in. Recipient of the Charlotte Howard Porter Scholarship
David Tumblety, Slave. Plaster, 22 x 12 x 10 in. Recipient of the James C. Johnson Scholarship
Mollie Hosmer-Dillard, Je est un autre. Oil on canvas, 33 x 28 in. Recipient of the Ruth Katzman Scholarship
Maureen Guinan-Fitzgerald, Optimist. Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 30 in. Recipient of the Gail von der Lippe Scholarship
Fulvia Zambon, The Hurricane. Oil on linen, 27 x 39 in. Recipient of the Antoinette Jacoby Scholarship
Margie Steinmann, Northwest. Mixed media on canvas, 48 x 44 in. Recipient of the Vaclav Vytlacil Memorial Scholarship
Kate Sharkey, Unreal City under the Brown Fog of a Winter Noon. Oil, charcoal, and marble dust on canvas, 56 x 68 in. Recipient of the Martha T. Rosen Scholarship
Cindy Millin, Thirst. Oil on canvas, 55 x 66 in. Recipient of the Mary A. Frey Scholarship
Toshiko Kitano Croner, Blocks. Oil on canvas, 30 x 30 in. Recipient of the Marion R. Netter Scholarship
Joaquinn Croxatto, Madonna with Child. Oil on canvas, 48 x 30 in. Recipient of the Richard Lahey & Carlotta Gonzales Lahey Memorial Scholarship
Andrea Packard, Jennifer. Oil on canvas, 20 x 16 in. Recipient of the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Scholarship
Aaron Bell, Untitled. Mixed media on canvas, 12 x 15 in. Recipient of the Margo L.H. Hammerschlag Scholarship
Amy Rosenfeld, Words on Canvas. Mixed media on canvas, 15 x 15 in. Recipient of the Henri Matisse Estate Scholarship