86th Annual Hoosier Salon 2010 Exhibition

David Tutwiler wins Best of Show at the 2010 Hoosier Salon Exhibition.

Hoosier Salon 2010

The 86th annual exhibition of the Hoosier Salon began with a preview event held on Tuesday, August 12, 2010. For the first time in the event history, artists and buying patrons were in attendance to hear Merit awards announcements, discuss art with their favorite artists and purchase works of art. The longest-running exhibition in Indiana, the Hoosier Salon, has not missed any years hosting the event through the great Depression and three wars. The show is rich in heritage, and for those artists who win an award, hold the honor in high esteem. Started in 1925, when the Daughters of Indiana hosted the first exhibition at Marshall Fields and Company Galleries in Chicago, the show has attracted many well know Hoosier artists. Beginning with the highly regarded Hoosier Group artists, Theodore Clement Steele, John Otis Adams, and William Forsyth, who entered the first exhibition, to the present day artists Todd Reifers, Hattie Stanton, and Jerry Smith to name a few. The exhibition was moved to Indianapolis in 1942 to the William H Block Galleries, which held the event until 1977. Between 1978 and 1989, the show was located at the L. S. Ayers Auditorium before finding its current home at the Indiana State Museum in 1990.

This year’s exhibition runs from August 12th through October 17th, 2010, at the Indiana State Museum, now in its 21st year of hosting the event. Judges Dee Beard, Lori Putman and Shelley Newman Stevens who were faced with the difficult decision of determining which of the 559 entries would be juried into this year’s show

In the end, 172 works of art by 135 member artists competed for top honors, $25,000 in prize money with the following results:

Hoosier Salon 2010 Merit Awards and Prize Money

Best of Show Awarded to David Tutwiler, "Out of the Mist" - $5,000
Best Traditional Landscape Awarded to Rick Wilson, "Lazy Afternoon" - $2,250
Best Traditional Oil Awarded to Janice Lindboe, "Superior Morning" - $1,800
Best Figurative - Oil Awarded to Roger Merkel, "Summer in the Hamptons" - $1,350
Best Pastel Awarded to Alfred Wooten, "Grandpa's Jacket" - $900
Best Watercolor Awarded to Linda Burden, "Glasses" - $900
Best First Time Exhibitor Awarded to Carl Wendt, "Blue Glazes" - $900
Best Sculpture Awarded to Duane King, "Art is a Playful Mind" - $675
Best Impressionistic Landscape Awarded to Jerry Smith, "Sun patched" - $550
Outstanding Oil Awarded to Roger Merkel, "War Bride" - $425
Outstanding Oil - Traditional Awarded to Dan Woodson, "1st Brush of Spring" - $450
Outstanding Still Life Awarded to Judith Lewis, "Nature's Gift" - $275
Outstanding Watercolor Awarded to Sandy Maudlin, "More Euros" - $400
Jury Prize of Distinction - Contemporary Awarded to Christy Boyer, "Joan Marries Fire" - $1,050
Jury Prize of Distinction - Traditional Awarded to Todd Reifers, "Monument Circle" $900
Jury Prize of Distinction - Landscape Awarded to Chris Newland, "February on Greasy Creek" - $500
Jury Prize of Distinction - Drawing  Awarded to Jean Smith, "Time to Rest" - $450
Jury Prize of Distinction - Watercolor Awarded to Rob O'Dell, "Past and Present" - $45
Jury Prize of Distinction, Traditional Awarded to Carol Strock-Wasson, "Last Glimmer" - $450
Jury Prize of Distinction - Portrait  Awarded to Susan Mauck, "Young Penrod" - $450
Work That Best Depicts the Love of the Land Awarded to Jerry Smith, "Cross Section" - $350
Jury Prize of Distinction - Waterscape Awarded to Fred Doloresco, "The Canal" - $225
Jury Prize of Distinction - Watercolor Awarded to Pat Hooper, "Wildflowers" - $225
Popular Choice Award   - Awarded to Joe Rohrman, "What's Up" - $225