Thursday, April 16, 1950 University Daily Kansan
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Work of Big 8 Artists On Six-week Display
The University is host again this year to the Second Annual Big Eight Conference Student Art Competition. The submitted works may be seen in the art gallery of the Music and Dramatic Arts Building until May 22.
The judge for this year's competition was Rola Ginzel, professor of art and acting chairman of the department of art at the University of Illinois Chicago branch.
Entries in the competition are in the fields of painting, prints and sculpture. Each institution was permitted to send three entries in at least two of the three fields.
Winners announced last week were Judith Hood, Lawrence senior, who won first place for her
K. U. ENTRY—Example of work by Robert Edmiston, winner last year.
ART FANS — Charles Burger, Shawnee sophomore, talks sculpture with Duane Steinshouer, Hoxie junior.
self-portrait woodcut. In second place was Jerry Buchanan, Wichita graduate student, for a collage entitled "Out of Colors and Out of Glued Scraps." In third place was Hiroko Miyaki, University of Colorado junior, for sculpture in walnut entitled "Figure."
Honorable mention went to James J. Hennessy for a painting entitled "The Madness of Aias No. 1," and Eugene C. Wicks for an etching entitled "Quarry No. 2." Both are graduate students at the University of Colorado. Also given honorable mention was Jerry Lee Jacoby for an untitled oil painting. He is a University of Nebraska junior.
First prize is $125, second
prize $75 and third prize $50.
GUEST ARTIST—Prof. Roland Ginzel is shown talking to Miriam Hamilton, assistant professor of voice, before his lecture April 6 in Swarthout Recital Hall. John J. Talleur, instructor of drawing and painting is in the background.
Mr. Buchanan was a double winner in that his entry was selected for the University purchase award of $250. The award was made by a committee composed of Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy; Edward Maser, director of the University Museum of Art, Eldon C. Tefft, associate professor of design, John J. Talleur, instructor of drawing and painting; A. Dwight Burnham, associate professor of drawing and painting; James E. Gunn, assistant director of public relations, and John Downing, president of the student body.
The Buchanan work will be bung in the Kansas Union and will eventually be displayed in the new addition to the Union now under construction.
The member institutions of the Big Eight Conference participating in the show are the Universities of Missouri, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Colorado, and Kansas State University and Oklahoma State University, as well as K.U.
The first prize winner last year was Robert Edmiston, then of the University of Oklahoma, who entered a piece of sculpture.
Photographs by JACK CLIFFORD
EXHIBITION AREA-Early crowds view sculpture and painting.
GOOD PERSPECTIVE—Elaine Gill, Cincinnati, Ohio, senior, views cameraman.