Two Studies of Julius Hallgarten (1884) by Daniel Huntington, Cooper Hewitt Museum

The Julius Hallgarten Prizes (defunct) were a trio of prestigious art prizes awarded by the National Academy of Design from 1884 to 2008. They recognized outstanding works exhibited in NAD's Annual Exhibition by American painters under age 35. A prize was awarded in each of three classes—the First Hallgarten for the best oil painting in the annual exhibition, the Second Hallgarten for the second-best, and the Third Hallgarten for the third-best. The winners were chosen by a vote of all the artists participating in each year's exhibition, and the prizes were accompanied by a cash award.^[1]

Winning a Hallgarten could give a tremendous boost to the career of a young painter. The prizes were held in especially high regard because the winners were selected by one's fellow artists.

The National Academy of Design's annual exhibitions became biennial in 2002.^[2] The last Hallgarten Prizes were awarded in 2008.

Julius Hallgarten

The prizes were established through a $12,000 endowment created in 1883 by stockbroker Julius Hallgarten (1840–1884).^[3]

The late Mr. JULIUS HALLGARTEN, of New York, endowed prizes of three hundred, two hundred and one hundred dollars, to be awarded respectively to the painters of the best three pictures in oil colors exhibited at each Annual Exhibition, under the following conditions:
"All works will be considered to be in competition which have been painted in the United States by an American citizen under thirty-five years of age, and which have not before been publicly exhibited in the City or vicinity of New York. No competitor may take two prizes, or a prize of the same class a second time.
"The awards will be made by vote by ballot of all the Exhibitors of the season … Each artist will be entitled to one vote at each ballot, specifying his choice for each one of the three prizes, and each prize will be awarded to the painting receiving the highest number of votes for that prize, but no work will be entitled to the prize unless at least fifty of the exhibitors vote at the ballot, and the work receive one-third of all the votes cast."^[1]

Painters and works

1884–1929

Year Exhibition	Class	Artist	Work	Image	Current location	Notes
1884 59th	First	Louis Moeller	Puzzled			[4][5]
	Second	Charles Yardley Turner	The Courtship of Miles Standish			[6][7]
	Third	William Bliss Baker	Woodland Brook—Decline of an Autumn Day		Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec
1885 60th	First	Harry Chase	New York Harbor—North River		Katzen Arts Center, American University, Washington D.C	[8] Ex collection: Corcoran Gallery of Art[9]
	Second	John Francis Murphy	Tints of a Vanished Past			[10][11]
	Third	Dennis Miller Bunker	A Bohemian		de Young Museum, San Francisco, California	[12]
1886 61st	First	Edward Percy Moran	Divided Attention
	Second	William Anderson Coffin	Moonlight in Harvest			[13]
	Third	Irving Ramsay Wiles	The Corner Table			[14] Auctioned at Christie's NY, 4 December 2003, Lot 33.[15]
1887 62nd	First	Alfred Kappes	Buckwheat Cakes			Kappes was later disqualified because he was over age 35.[16]
	Second	Walter Launt Palmer	January			[17]
	Third	Dwight William Tryon	Landscape: A Lighted Village		Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.	[18] Tryon was later disqualified because he was over age 35.[19]
1888 63rd	First	George de Forest Brush	The Sculptor and the King		Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon	[20][21]
	Second	Henry Rankin Poore	Foxhounds			[22]
	Third	Charles Courtney Curran	A Breezy Day		Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	[23][24]
1889 64th	First	Robert Van Vorst Sewell	Sea Urchins
	Second	Kenyon Cox	November			[25]
	Third	Frank Weston Benson	Orpheus			[26]
1890 65th	First	No award				"Although the triple prize the National Academy of Design has inherited from the late Julius Hallgarten was not awarded in 1890, neither in 1891, nor in 1892, hope ever springs in the breasts of exhibitors at the annual show that they will be awarded after to-day."[27]
	Second	No award
	Third	No award
1891 66th	First	No award
	Second	No award
	Third	No award
1892 67th	First	No award
	Second	No award
	Third	No award
1893 68th	First	Charles Morgan McIlhenny	Gray Morning			[28]
	Second	Edward August Bell	The Five Dreamers			[29]
	Third	Henry Prellwitz	The Prodigal Son			[30]
1894 69th	First	Edmund Tarbell	An Arrangement in Pink and Grey (Afternoon Tea)		Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts	[31]
	Second	Edith Mitchill	Hagar and Ishmael			[32] Mitchill and Murphy were the first two women awarded Hallgarten Prizes.
	Third	Ada Clifford Murphy	That Difficult World
1895 70th	First	George Randolph Barse	A Tribute to Satyr			[33]
	Second	Charles Courtney Curran	The Enchanted Shore			[23][34]
	Third	Francis Day	Patience
1896 71st	First	Mary Brewster Hazelton	In a Studio			Hazelton was the first woman awarded a First Hallgarten Prize.
	Second	John Henry Hatfield	After the Bath
	Third	Louise Howland King Cox	Pomona			[35]
1897 72nd	First	Wilbur Aaron Reaser	Mother and Child
	Second	Leo Moeller	A Patriot at Valley Forge
	Third	Charles Edward Proctor	Grandpa
1898 73rd	First	Robert Reid	Dawn
	Second	Harry Roseland	An Important Letter			[36]
	Third	Walter C. Hartshorn	The Keepsake
1899 74th	First	George Henry Bogert	September Evening		Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City	[37][38]
	Second	Louis Paul Dessar	Portrait: Mrs. Ruthrauff			[39]
	Third	Carle John Blenner	The Letter
1900 75th	First	Louis Paul Dessar	Landscape with Sheep			[39]
	Second	E. Irving Couse	Along the Quay			[40]
	Third	Walter Granville-Smith	The Light of the House			[41]
1901 76th	First	Walter Elmer Schofield	Winter Evening		Muriel and Philip Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania	[42]: 464
	Second	Clara Taggart MacChesney	A Good Story: Portrait of Robert Loftin Newman		Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.	[43]
	Third	Matilda Browne	Repose			[42]: 106
1902 77th	First	E. Irving Couse	The Peace Pipe		Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City	[40][44]
	Second	Louis Loeb	The Mother			[45]
	Third	Will Howe Foote	The Blue Vase			[46]
1903 78th	First	Harry Mills Walcott	At the Party			[42]: 523
	Second	William Fair Kline	Leda and the Swan			[47]
	Third	Belle Havens	The Last Load			[42]: 253
1904 79th	First	Charles Webster Hawthorne	Girl in Green		University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, Kentucky	[48][49]
	Second	Louise Howland King Cox	The Sisters			[35]
	Third	Samuel Johnson Woolf	Finale			[42]: 553
1905 80th	First	F. Luis Mora	The Letter			[42]: 365
	Second	Gustave Adolph Wiegand	Moonrise, Early Spring		Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York City	[50]
	Third	Martin Petersen	Curiosity Seekers			[51]
1906 81st	First	No award				Dewitt M. Lockman was initially awarded the First Hallgarten for Partiality, but the artist was disqualified because he was over age 35.[52]
	Second	Charles Webster Hawthorne	Still Life		Swope Art Museum, Terra Haute, Indiana	[48][53]
	Third	Clark Voorhees	Spring Afternoon			[42]: 521
1907 82nd	First	William Cotton	The Princess			[54]
	Second	Hugo Ballin	The Three Ages			[55]
	Third	Eleanor C. A. Winslow	The Necklace			[42]: 549
1908 83rd	First	Ernest Lawson	Ice on the Hudson			[56]
	Second	George Wesley Bellows	North River		Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	[57][58]
	Third	William Wallace Gilchrist Jr.	Daughter and Doll			[59]
1909 84th	First	Daniel Garber	Horses			[60]
	Second	Charles Bittinger	After the Ball			[61]
	Third	Ben Ali Haggin	Elfrida			[62]
1910 85th	First	Gifford Beal	The Palisades			[63]
	Second	Louis David Vaillant	Woodland Play			[42]: 512
	Third	Charles Rosen	Summer Breeze		Bill Memorial Library, Groton, Connecticut	[64]
1911 86th	First	Lillian Genth	Depths of the Woods		Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.	[65]
	Second	Joseph Thurman Pearson Jr.	A Group of Geese			[65]
	Third	Leslie Prince Thompson	Tea			[65]
1912 87th	First	Charles Rosen	A Rocky Ledge			Ex collection: Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan[66]
	Second	Everett Warner	Along the River Front		Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio	[67]
	Third	Eliot Candee Clark	Under the Trees			[68][69]
1913 88th	First	George Wesley Bellows	Little Girl in White (Queenie Burnett)		National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.	[57][70]
	Second	Robert Spencer	The Silk Mill			[71][72]
	Third	M. Jean McLane	Brother and Sister: Portrait of Virginia and Stanton Arnold			[42]: 339
1914 89th	First	Jonas Lie	Afterglow		Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois	[73]
	Second	Rae Sloan Bredin	Midsummer			[74]
	Third	Eugene Speicher	Portrait of John Nelson Cole, Jr.			[75]
1915 90th	First	Eugene Speicher	Betalo			[42]: 484
	Second	Randall Davey	Portrait of a Young Lady: Mildred Cowing		Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois	[76][77]
	Third	Robert H. Nisbet	Lingering Summer			[42]: 384
1916 91st	First	Arthur Crisp	The Strollers			[78]
	Second	Christine Herter Kendall	Study of Light and Shadow			[42]: 260
	Third	John Fulton Folinsbee	Winter Quiet			[79]
1917 92nd	First	Howard Everett Smith	Portrait of Bela Pratt			[80][81]
	Second	John Fulton Folinsbee	Canal in Winter		National Arts Club, New York City	[82]
	Third	Sidney Edward Dickinson	Unrest			[83][81]
1918 93rd	First	Leopold Seyffert	Lacquer Screen		Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	[84][85]
	Second	Lazar Raditz	Self-Portrait		Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	[86]
	Third	Felix Russmann	The Black Bottle			[42]: 452
1919 94th	First	Robert Strong Woodward	Between the Setting Sun and Rising Moon			Purchased by a Hallgarten family member, for $500.[87]
	Second	Ercole Cartotto	Portrait of Miss Marion Ryder			[42]: 120
	Third	Dines Carlsen	The Jade Bowl			[88][89]
1920 95th	First	Armin Carl Hansen	A Boy with a Cod		Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California	[90][91]
	Second	Kentaro Kato	Portrait of a Young Woman			[42]: 296
	Third	John E. Costigan	Group			[92]
1921 96th	First	Ross Moffett	The Old Fisherman			[42]: 363
	Second	Felicie Waldo Howell	October			[93]
	Third	William Auerbach-Levy	Portrait of Michael Brennen			[94]
1922 97th	First	Aldro Hibbard	Late February			[95]
	Second	Robert Philipp	Portrait of Himself (Self-Portrait)			[42]: 422
	Third	Louis Ritman	Sunlit Window		Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana	[96]
1923 98th	First	John Fulton Folinsbee	By the Upper Lock		Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.	[97]
	Second	Dines Carlsen	The Flemish Tapestry			[88][89]
	Third	Fred Nagler	A Naturalist			[98]
1924 99th	First	Sidney Edward Dickinson	Amy			[83][99]
	Second	Douglass Ewell Parshall	The Great Surge			[100][99]
	Third	Dorothy Ochtman	An Old Brass Kettle			[99][101]
1925 100th	First	Clarence Raymond Johnson	Lumberville Lock			[42]: 289
	Second	Stanley W. Woodward	Mid-Ocean			[102]
	Third	Jerry Farnsworth	Helen			[103][42]: 195
1926 101st	First	Jes Wilhelm Schlaikjer	The Pink Cameo			[104]
	Second	Jay Hall Connaway	The Giant			[105][104]
	Third	Carl W. Peters	View from a Window			[104]
1927 102nd	First	Antonio Pietro Martino	Winter		Woodmere Art Museum, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	[106][107]
	Second	Douglas Ewell Parshall	The Red Sail			[108][100]
	Third	Jerry Farnsworth	Joaquin's Boys			[103][108]
1928 103rd	First	Carl Lawless	In the Mountains			[104]
	Second	Carl W. Peters	Around the Bend			[104]
	Third	George Byron Browne	Old Iron, Copper, Etc.		Destroyed by the artist.[109]	First African-American to win a Hallgarten Prize.[42]: 105  NAD's website erroneously lists George Elmer Browne as the winner.[110]
1929 104th	First	Ethel "Polly" Thayer Starr	Circles			[111][112]
	Second	Arthur Hill Gilbert	Old Oak, Monterey			[113][112]
	Third	Malcolm Humphreys	Fishing Fleet			[112]

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