Plein Air-Easton! 2013 Competition Winners Announced

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photo by Ted Mueller Photography

A low roar of jubilant conversation, clinking glasses, exuberant cheering, and whirling drills installing new paintings on the walls were the sounds that filled the Academy Art Museum during the Plein Air–Easton! Collectors’ Preview Party on July 19. The museum bustled as more than 220 people packed the exhibit galleries to see all the 116 paintings (two from each of 58 competition artists) in the competition exhibit, anxiously awaiting Competition Judge Don Demers’ announcement of which artists would take home more than $20,000 in awards.  Congratulations to all of the 9th Annual Plein Air-Easton! competition winners!

Grand Prize Timothy E. Dills Memorial Award, $5,000
Garin Baker from New York, NY for “A Buck Twenty a Bushel”

Second Place Academy Art Museum Award, $2,000
Nancy Tankersley from Easton, MD for “Brookletts Morning”

Third Place Ben Franklin Crafts Design & Create Award, $1,000
Robert J Barber from Bethlehem, PA for “Two Sycamores”

Vanishing Landscape Award (sponsored by the Eastern Shore Land Conservancy), $2,000
Charlie Hunter from Bellows Falls, VT for “Bridge”

Best Marine Award (sponsored by Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum), $2,000
Greg LaRock from Newport Beach, CA for “Blocked In”

Best Architectural Award (sponsored by the Historical Society of Talbot County), $1,000
Tim Kelly from Baltimore, MD for “Old Dover Bridge”

Artists’ Choice Award, $500 + full page ad in PleinAir magazine
Ken DeWaard from Chicago, IL for “A Waterman’s Life”

Troika Gallery Award for Best Painting by a Maryland Artist, $500
Hiu Lai Chong from Rockville, MD for “Take Me Up”

South Street Art Gallery Award for Best New Artist to Plein Air–Easton!, $500
Mark Lague from Montreal, Quebec for “Late Afternoon on Tilghman”

Gail Grafton Memorial Landscape Award, $500
John Michael Carter from Louisville, KY for “The Cove”

Carol Hilderbrandt Award of Joy and Exuberance, $500
Crystal Moll from Baltimore, MD for “Essence of St. Michaels”

Studio B Gallery Historic Preservation Award (highlighting the renovation and adaptive reuse of the McCord’s Building), $500
Richard R. Sneary from Kansas City, MO for “Side Door”

Honorable Mention, $150
Stewart Burgess White from Baltimore, MD for “Paint the Town”

Honorable Mention, $150
Larry Moore from Orlando, FL for “Plenty of Work to Do.”