San Antonio Art League & Museum 94th Juried Exhibition Catalog

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EXHIBITION CATALOG

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Copyright © 2024 by Lyn Belisle and the San Antonio Art League & Museum

All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher and the artists whose works are included except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

Printed in the United States of America First Printing, 2024

The San Antonio Art League & Museum 130 King William Street San Antonio. Texas 78204 www.saalm.org

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Davis Competitions of the late 1920s. Ever since, numerous well-known regional and national artists have participated in this annual competition event.

Each year an Exhibition Committee is assigned by the SAALM Board to organize this event. An invited juror with outstanding background in the art and cultural fields judges all the submitted artworks. The Juror has the complete liberty in making acceptance and award decisions.

The SAALM members, patrons, supporters, and business corporations donate all the award prizes. The artwork of the Onderdonk Purchase Award is added to SAALM’s permanent collection, which is exhibited annually on a rotation basis.

The 94th Artists Exhibition accepted 61 artworks from more than 500 submitted in various media and genres. Fourteen of the exhibited artworks were given awards. SAALM sincerely appreciates the contributions of all the participants and strongly encourages future entries by artists all across Texas.

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San Antonio Art League & Museum

94th Annual Artists Exhibition

April 13 to June 7, 2024

President:

Lyn Belisle Kurtin

Exhibition Committee:

Augusta Rosser (Chair)

Lyn Belisle

Nancy Campbell

Claudia Langford

Norma Jean Moore

Terry Gay Puckett

Stefani Spears

Peter Szarmach

Dona Walston

Claudia White

Nancy Wood

Exhibition Curators:

Nancy Kempf

Vikki Fields

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Sincere Thanks to Our Financial Supporters

Corporate Sponsors

Art Gallery Prudencia

Frost Bank

H-E-B

McNutt Foundation

Enterprise Holdings

Patron Level Awards

Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Traylor

Col. William Hill, Jr

Ronald C. Keller

Sponsor Level Awards

Ann Griffith Ash

Lyn Belisle Kurtin

Hannah McManus

Bally Studios, Virginia & Andre Bally

Arch & Stella Rowan Foundation

Donor Level Awards

Richard C. Arredondo

Barbara C. Kyse

Pam Slocum

Lifshutz Foundation

Patricia Romines

Fred Loxsom

Beth Eidelberg Watermedia Award

Beth Eidelberg Estate

Contributor Level Awards

Zet Baer

Nancy Bandy

Frankie Boone

Vikki Fields

Joan Fritze

Robin Gara

William E. Kurtin

Claudia Langford

Mark Langford

Virginia Lukefahr

BJ Newman

Norma Jean Moore

Terry Gay Puckett

Brian Row

Judy Row

Hildegarde Slaughter

Cynthia Spencer

Peter Szarmach

Nancy Vandenburg

The San Antonio Art League & Museum thanks our sponsors for their support

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McNutt FouNdatioN

JUROR’S STATEMENT

Seeing a Sense of Self Through Art

Art can be viewed as a reflection of self-image and of commentary on impactful places, known and unknown. Art has the power to change the way we see ourselves, each other, and the world, awakening us to new perspectives, ideas, and values.

As an expression of self and character, artwork has sometimes hidden truth of what is important to an individual, their experiences, fears, hopes, and desires, portrayed through visual language. In the selection of work for this show, I looked to the historical foundations of the portrait, the landscape, and the still life and through these foundational works and how I could view the artist’s voice and their truth through their work.

Heather K. Lunsford March, 2024

Heather K. Frickenschmidt Lunsford is the 5th generation of a farming and ranching family from Enid, and the Director and Curator of the Nona Jean Hulsey Gallery at Oklahoma City University.

She is also a mixed-media artist who studied watercolor painting and art history at Oklahoma State University and Northern Illinois University. She has a painting in the permanent collection of Oklahoma State University, two in collection of the University Health System of San Antonio and has shown her artwork in galleries in the United States and Spain, where she worked in a contemporary art gallery. She received her Master of Arts in Administration from the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, TX and wrote Spanish and bilingual educational programming at the San Antonio Museum of Art.

Heather also has a certificate from Harvard Business School online in sustainable business strategy and a Master of Legal Studies from OCU, and is a member with the International Society of Appraisers. Previously, Heather was the Director of Art in Public Places for the State of Oklahoma and the Art Director for the Heritage Trust project in Oklahoma City. Heather has served as an arts commissioner for the city of Edmond, is a current Rotarian for Oklahoma City 29, advised OKCPC Academy of Arts, and is on the board of the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition.

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Past Julian Onderdonk Purchase Award Winners

2023 - Jayne Lawrence

2022 - Marc Eisenburg

2021 - Samuel Wilson

2020 - Paula Sussman

2019 - Alexandra Nelipa

2018 - Brian Row

2017 - Richard Conn

2016 -Thomas Schlenker

2015 -Sallie Stanley Carter

2014 - Vikki Fields

2013 -Tamara Van Horn

2012 - Billy Keen

2011 - Francis Huang

2010 - Susan Brumfield Farris

2009 - Bernice Appelin-Williams

2008 - Solomon Wells

2007 - Rachman Ulmer

2006 - Tim McMeans

2005 - Brian St. John

2004 - Gladys Roldan-de-Moras

2003 - Betty Muyres

2001 - Margaret Warren

2000 - James Hendricks

1999 - Fritz Ozuna

1998 - Henry Stein

1997 - Brixey Sutton

1996 - Kuo Yen Ng

1995 - Robert Johnson

1994 - Dan Burt

1993 - Dan Burt

1992 - E. Gordon West

1991 - Linda Hammond

1990 - Marija Kae Rodriguez

1989 - Sandra French

1988 - Agnes Welsh Eyster

1987 - Louis Lubbering

1986 - Jim Stoker

1985 - Drusilla Pfannstiel

1984 - Joe Tye

1983 - Kathleen Cook

1982 - Neal Wilson

1981 - Thomas A. Pressly

1980 - Bill Reily

1979 - Jim Stoker

1978 – Stevie Manak

1977 - Gilberto Tarin

1976 - Frank Hein

1975 - Arthur de la Fuenta

1974 - Mildred Cocke

1973 - Richard H. Rogers

1972 - Val Alexander

1971 - Val Alexander

1970 - Mildred Cocke

1969 - David Reyes

1968 - Wendell Ott

1967 - Jack Tinkle

1966 - Carl Embrey

1965 - Jim Watson

1964 - Richard H. Rogers

1963 - Helen Van Buren

1962 - Clay Walker

1961 – Bill Bristow

1960 - June Kroll

1959 - Margaret Putnam

1958 -Leslie Larson

1957 - George Pinca

1956 - Keith McIntyre

1955 - Chester Toney

1954 - Jack Tinkle

1953 - Keith Mc Intyre

1952 - Cecil L. Casebier

1951 - Janet Turner

1950 - John Squire Adams

1949 - J. Arthur Head

1948 - Jack Tinkle

1947 - Margaret Pace

1946 - Charles Thompson

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94th Exhibition Award Winners

Our Juror had the enormous task of choosing 61 artworks from over 500 submissions, but her task did not stop there. While the initial selections are chosen from digital images, the award-winning works are judged in person by the Juror during a very busy weekend. Thanks to the generosity of our Patrons, Supporters, and Members, seventeen awards totaling over $13,000 were available for the Juror to assign.

The prestigious Onderdonk Purchase Prize has been the Exhibition’s major award for most of its history. The San Antonio Art League purchases this chosen piece for its Permanent Collection annually, thus continuing to acquire an example of the best in Texas art every year.

Images of the award-winning artworks are presented on the following pages of this catalog. All the exhibited works are listed after those images. Images of all the accepted works for the 94th Exhibition are available in an online catalog on our website.

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Onderdonk Puchase Award $3000 Wes Coke What Did You Dream? Oil on Canvas

For The Love of Frida Watercolor

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Beth Eidelberg Memorial Watermedia Award $1000 Richard Samuel
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Mr & Mrs Richard C. Traylor Award $1000 Benjamin Ortiz Pico de Gallo Oil on Wood
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Betty Rihn Keller Memorial Award $1000
Jill Pankey
Line of Ladies Leaning Left Oil on Canvas

$1000

Susan Best Floridays

Acrylic with Paper Collage on Canvas

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Frank & Cecilia Keller Memorial Award

Watercolor Award

$1000

April Ortiz

Bottle ‘n Bag Liquor ‘n Guns, Uvalde, Texas

Watercolor on Paper

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Ronald C. Keller
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Ronald C. Keller Acrylic Award $1000 Suzanne Horner Turquoise Afternoon Acrylic on Canvas, Birch Natural Frame, Ceramic Tag

$750

Deported to Danger and Nobody Gives a Damn

Oil on Canvas / Chains to hoist freight frame

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Richard Conn Memorial Mixed Media Award Tony Armadillo

The Portal Ceramic Stoneware

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Andre & Virginia Bally 3-D Art Award $500 Linda S. Manning

$500

Oil on Board

$400

Oil on Canvas

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Prudencia Art Gallery Award Susan Arnim Corazon Barbara C. Kyse Award Judi Simon Tiffany’s Gifts

Hannah McManus Award for Textiles/Ceramics

$500

Suzette Schutze

Lost Canopy II: A Reflection of Dying Forests

Commercial Clay, Wild River Clay, and a dead cedar root system

President’s Award

$250

Nancy Campbell

Ghost Tree

Wool roving, silk, nepps, cheesecloth and inside finished with sea glass shells beads copper

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Richard C.Arrendondo Award for Pastels $250 Kraig Kiedrowski Mora Fields Pastel on La Carte pastel card

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Exhibited Artwork
Juried Artists Exhibition

Greg Allen

A Place Of Faith

Oil on Canvas

$2700

Tony Armadillo

Deported to Danger and Nobody Gives a Damn

Oil on canvas / Chains to hoist freight frame

$6,000

Richard Conn Memorial Mixed Media Award

Susan Arnim

Corazon

Oil on Canvas

$475

Prudencia Art Gallery Award

Olga Aviles

Cavernous Impacts

Glazed ceramic, acrylic wash, air-dry paper clay

$500

Virginia Bally

Sanibel Stoop

Mid-Range porcelain sculpture with Celadon glaze

$350

Lyn Belisle

Cotton Bowl

Fiber, paper, beeswax, twigs, thread, phototransfer

$425

Susan Best

Floridays

acrylic with paper collage on canvas

$850

Madison Branch

Digging In The Orchard, The Earth Burrows Back Into You

Watercolor, Acrylic, Spray Paint, and Pen on Paper

$300

Nancy Campbell

Ghost Tree

Wool roving, silk, nepps, cheesecloth and inside finished with sea glass shells beads copper

$395

President’s Award

Danville Chadbourne

Map Of Unknowable Places

Arylic and ink on wood

$2000

Sherry Christensen

Texas Buttes with Cactus

Foam core shapes, paper fibers, hand sewn beads, yarn, and acrylic embellishments.

$400

Lara Hye Coh

The Bride

Oil on panel

$4800

Wes Coke

What Did You Dream?

Oil on canvas

Onderdonk Purchase Prize

Rita Maria Contreras

Mamá said there’ll be days like this …(when all the parts of the puzzle…)

Oil/cold wax on cradled wood panel

$950

Shelby Criswell

Undulation in the Parlor

Gouache, Acrylic, Tempera, and Paint Marker on Canvas

$400

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Ron Crouch

Sleeping man with red socks (large version)

Acrylic on canvas

$4000

Shea Daniel-Youngblood

Historic Guadalupe Theatre, Westside San Antonio

Oil on linen panel

$1200

Beth Devillier

Sweet. Sick. Fire.

Inkjet print on Japanese Washi Paper

$500

Jana Donovan

Pink Fork In The Road

Acrylic and graphite pencil on mixed media paper

$435

Victoria Ermler

Salome

Oil on Canvas

$6400

Ed Escobedo

Drink Set

Stoneware

$500

Patrick Flaherty

Moonrise

Reduction Linocut; Oil based ink on Mulberry Paper

$80

Ana Flores

Keeping My Dignity 1/4” steel round rod, yarn, paper, pen, scrapbooking tape, tiny bottles, glitter

$525

Robin Gara

The Mothership

Mixed media on watercolor paper, including acrylic paint, pencil, and collaged pieces of paper.

$200

John Garland

Hunter

Oil on Canvas

$1750

Nancy Gerfers

Prairieland

acrylic collage on canvas

$875

Clara Hada

Path To Freedom

Acrylic, paper, fabric

$800

Gloria Hill

Urban Chaos

Acrylic, paper, ink on canvas

$350

Ashley Hinze

Sasquatch Daughter

Graphite, 60lbs Sketch Paper

$375

Rebecca Horan

Remembrances

Acrylic and Oil Mixed Media on gallery wrapped canvas.

625.00

Suzanne Horner

Turquoise Afternoon

Acrylic on canvas, birch natural frame, ceramic tag

$ 900

Ronald C. Keller Acrylic Award

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Joe Houde

Il pranzo (The Lunch)

Photgraph on paper

$150

Leigh Ann Irish

Simple Pleasures

Pastel on sanded paper

$975

Joe Jackson

Non Dit (unspoken)

Oil on canvas

$4800

Deborah Keller-Rihn

Lone Star Reverie: Dreams of Love

Photograph on German Etching Paper

$400

Taylor Kelsch

The Alley

oil painting, canvas

$2000

Kraig Kiedrowski

Mora Fields

Pastel on La Carte pastel card

$2600

Richard C.Arrendondo Award for Pastels

Katie Mangan

LOOK

Color Pencil on Canvas

$500.00

Linda S. Manning

The Portal

Ceramic stoneware

$1450

André & Virginia Bally 3-D Art Award

Marguerite Moreau McCarthy

Key Lime Pie

Acrylic on Canvas

$800

Sherri Lipman McCauley

Violet13

Commercial cotton fabric, felt backing, and thread.

$700

Thelma Muraida

Remedios

Oil on canvas

$900

Alexandra Nelipa

Halloween night

Acrylic on canvas

$800

Paola Nunez

In the shade

Gouache on paper

$3200

Jon O’Neal

Polo

Digital print

$450

April Ortiz

Bottle ‘n Bag Liquor ‘n Guns, Uvalde, Texas

Watercolor on Paper

$5000

Ronald C. Keller Watercolor Award

Benjamin Ortiz

Pico de Gallo

Oil on Wood

$3500

Mr & Mrs Richard C. Traylor Award

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Jill Pankey

Line of Ladies Leaning Left

Oil on Canvas

$5000

Betty Rihn Keller Memorial Award

Lenise Perez-Miller

I Use To Be A Roller Derby Queen

Clay, Underglazes, Glazes, Textiles

$1500

Billy Rerick

Mary Magdalene Contemplates Death

Oil on canvas over panel

$2000

Kristina Salinas

Up and Atom

Oil, oil pastel, graphite, charcoal on canvas

$3200

Richard Samuel

For the Love of Frida

Watercolor

$7000

Beth Eidelberg Water Media Memorial Award

Alison Schuchs

Madre Tierra

Oil on Canvas

$1400

Suzette Schutze

Lost Canopy II: A Reflection of Dying Forests

Commercial clay, wild river clay, and a dead cedar root system

$850

Hannah McManus Award for Textiles/Ceramics

Judi Simon

Tiffany’s Gifts

Oil on board

$1200

Barbara C. Kyse Award

Jennye Stubblefield

Nomads

Oil on birch panel

$6700

Peter Szarmach

A Shadow of Themselves

Digital Photo Print

$300

Melissa Torres

Maiden Butterfly

Oil

$825

Dub Weathersby Tourist Ocotillo

100% cotton rag paper

$300

Resa Wohlrabe

Where Winged Horses Fly

Acrylic and gold leafing on canvas

$900

Ernie Wood

Appalachian Aerie

Reduction Linocut, ink on paper

$400

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The San Antonio Art League was organized on March 13, 1912. It was founded by volunteers, and 110 years later continues as a beloved, an all-volunteer organization, carrying on the rich traditions and history of its founders while providing contemporary exhibition opportunities for its member artists. Volunteers also care for the extensive Permanent Collection, an invaluable record of the cultural and social artwork of the city and the region. The San Antonio Art League and Museum is a unique hybrid of past, present, and future. As a volunteer you can help in ways that match your skills and interests. Please join us by giving your time – it’s incredibly rewarding. We’ve been rounding up art for San Antonio since 1912 – we need you on our team. www.saalm.org

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SAALM is the oldest arts organization in San Antonio and home to an extensive Permanent Collection of works by notable Texas artists.

Contributions are gratefully accepted on our secure website by the San Antonio Art League & Museum, and are tax-deductible under the terms of our 501 (c) (3) arts organization. Thanks so much for your support!

SAN ANTONIO ART LEAGUE & MUSEUM

130 KING WILLIAM

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 78204 210-223-1140

WWW.SAALM.ORG

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