50th Art and the Animal Awards

We would like to take a moment and congratulate all of the artists who have had the honor of being awarded some of the highest honors in the Society of Animal Artists.

The list that follows are those artists in the 

Society of Animal Artists

50^th Annual Members Exhibition 2010

Art and the Animal

Award of Excellence

The Society of Animal Artists has presented its highest honor, the Award of Excellence for those works of art in each SAA Exhibition which are judged to represent the highest standards of artistic excellence.

Robert Bateman
BOWHEAD AND SNOW BUNTINGS -oil
Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada

Charles Allmond
DAYDREAMER - Utah Alabaster
Wilmington, Delaware

Cheryl Gervais Battistelli
WINTER LIGHT -pastel
Whitefish, Ontario Canada

Carel P. Brest van Kempen
RIPARIAN RASHOMON - Acrylic Diptych
Holladay, Utah

Pat Jackman
WINDY DAY BEACH - Colored Pencil
Salem, Oregon

Lars Jonnson
LIVING WITH THE WIND - Oil
Island of Gotland, Sweden

Peter Clinton Gray
GREAT EXPECTATIONS - oil
Cape Town, South Africa

Don Rambadt
SOLSTICE - welded bronze
Trevor, Wisconsin

Sherry Salari Sander
HORSES OF THE MOUNTAIN - bronze
Kalispell, Montana

Sandy Scott
EQUUS FOUND FRAGMENTS I and II - bronze
Lander, WY

Mark Susinno
OVER THE TOP - Oil on Linen
Harrisburg, PA.

Kay Witherspoon
DETERMINATION - Oil on Linen
Englewood, Colorado

Rick Pas
RING NECK II - Acrylic
Lapeer, Mi

HIRAM BLAUVELT MUSEUM ART MUSEUM PURCHASE AWARD

Peter Clinton Gray
GREAT EXPECTATIONS - oil
Cape Town, South Africa

Stephen Quinn
RECLINING BLACK RHINO - bronze
Ridgefield Park, NJ

PATRICIA A. BOTT AWARD FOR CREATIVE EXCELLENCE

Gary Stabb
ATTA - Bronze, Glass, wood
Kearney, Mo

THE EVELYN AND PETER HALLER MEMORIAL AWARD FOR SCULPTURE

Dan Chen
BETWEEN THE RAFTERS - bronze
b. China resides Eugene Oregon

PRESIDENTS AWARD

Jan Martin McGuire
DUST DEVIL - Acrylic on Panel
Bartlesville, Oklahoma

THE LEONARD J. MEISELMAN MEMORIAL AWARD FOR REALISTIC SCULPTURE IN AN ACADEMIC MANNER

Patricia Davis
SUMMER STOCK - bronze
Mancos, Colorado

THE NEWCOMER AWARD FOR A FIRST TIME PARTICIPANT IN THE SAA'S ANNUAL EXHIBITION

Chris McClelland
DUGGA BOY - Graphite and Colored Pencil
Hay, New South Wales

THE ETHOLOGY AWARD FOR THE BEST DEPICITION OF NATURAL BEHAVIOR IN ANY MEDIUM

Linda Besse
BATTLE ROYALE - oil
Mead, WA

SOUTHWEST ARTIST MAGAZINE EDITORS CHOICE

Julie Bell
ALPHA WOLF - Oil on Wood
Allentown, PA.

WESTERN ART COLLECTOR EDITORS CHOICE AWARD

James Coe
WINTER ABSTRACT WITH HERON - Oil on Linen
Hannacroix, NY

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Western Art Collector Editor’s Choice Award

Western Art Collector

Editor's Choice Award

Joshua Rose, Editor of  Western Art Collector, will be selecting the Western Art Collector Editor's Choice Award at the upcoming Society of Animal Artists 50^th Annual Art and the Animal Exhibition at the San Diego Natural History Museum opening September 4, 2010. The award will be a free advertisement in a forthcoming issue of Western Art Collector for the fortunate recipient.
 
We would like to thank Western Art Collector and Joshua Rose for their support of the Society's 50^th Annual Art and the Animal Exhibition. Joshua will also be part of the awards panel that judges the other distinguished awards.


 
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Congratulation to Joy Kroeger Beckner

Congratulations to SAA artist Joy Kroeger Beckner for all of recent achievements and awards!

Joy Kroeger Beckner's bronze "Sweet Roll" SS (Standard Smooth), earned the Lindsey Morris Memorial Award, in the 96th Annual Show of Allied Artists of America.

The 1:6 Scale "Sweet Roll" earned the Best Sculpture/Metal, in the Seaside Art Gallery, 18th International Miniature Art Exhibition, Nags Head, NC.

 

Joy's bronze "Sunnyside Up" (longhaired version), earned the Best Sculpture/Metal, in the 19th Annual International Miniature Art Show at Seaside Art Gallery, Nags Head, NC.

 

Joy's bronze "Siesta" SS (Standard Smooth), earned The Agop Agopoff Memorial Award in the 79th Annual Exhibition of The Hudson Valley Art Association, NY. See it through July 30 at the National Arts Club, 15 Grammercy Park South, New York, NY. "Siesta" SS may also be seen in Art on the Avenues, Wenachee, WA, through April 2011.

 

Joy's bronze medal, "Inspiration" may be seen in two medallic art shows this summer:

Fédération Internationale de la Médaille d' Art, FIDEM XXXI Congress and Exhibition, The Tampere Museum, Tampere, Finland. Through August 29.

AMSA with The ANA (American Medallic Sculpture Association with The American Numismatic Association), Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center, Boston, MA. August 10-15, 2010.

 

To learn more about Joy's work, please visit www.joybeckner.com .




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Southwest Art Magazine sponsors SAA award!

Southwest Art Magazine

Sponsors an award for the

50th Annual Art and the Animal exhibition

June 2010 cover of Southwest Art

SOUTHWEST ART MAGAZINE has announced that they will be sponsoring an award (possibly more than one) at the Society of Animal Artists 50th Anniversary ART AND THE ANIMAL exhibition in September. This award will be for a free ad in the magazine and will be announced at the awards banquet during the exhibition. This is a brand new award and Southwest Art has also already committed to continuing it for the 2011 exhibition. Diane Mason, president of SAA said that the magazine was so "blown away" by the quality of the work after reviewing a CD of the show that they came up with the idea for this award.


You can visit Southwest Art at www.southwestart.com, you can find them on Facebook and you can follow them on Twitter as well.


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