Wynne Prize

The Wynne Prize is an Australian art prize for landscape painting and sculpture. Founded in 1897 from the bequest of Richard Wynne ( 1822-1895 ), it is one of Australia's oldest art prices, led today gleichaufend in the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney with the Sir John Sulman Prize and the Archibald Prize.

Background

The prize is awarded annually for the best landscape painting of Australian scenery in oils or watercolors or for the best piece of sculpture by Australian artists, completed during the 12 months to the end date.

Many of Australia's best known artists have won the award, including William Dobell, Hans Heysen, Lloyd Rees, Fred Williams, William Robinson, Eric Smith and Sali Herman.

2010, the price was A $ 25,000 worth. Sam Leach had won the prize, but his painting revealed itself later than dense copy of the painting Boatmen Moored on the Shore of an Italian Lake of Adam Pijnacker from the 17th century. There was concern expressed that the price of a painting had been awarded that did not meet the criteria. Nonetheless, the curators of the Art Gallery of New South Wales decided that the price remained.

Winner Paintings ( selection)

Across the black soil plains (1899 ) by George Washington Lambert

The Golden Splendour of the Bush ( 1906) by William Lister Lister