Mary Smith Prize
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The Mary Smith Prize (defunct) was a prestigious art prize awarded to women artists by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. It recognized the best work by a Philadelphia woman artist at PAFA's annual exhibition — one that showed "the most originality of subject, beauty of design and drawing, and finesse of color and skill of execution". The prize was founded in 1879 by Russell Smith in memory of his deceased daughter, artist Mary Russell Smith. It was awarded from 1879 to 1968.
Russell, Mary Priscilla, and Mary Smith
Mary Russell Smith (1842–1878), Springs Bounty.
Image: Susan Macdowell Eakins, Gentleman and a Dog, 1878
Image: Catharine Ann Drinker Janvier, Old fashioned Music (Guitar Player), 1880
Temple Gold Medal
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Joseph E. Temple Fund Gold Medal (defunct) was a prestigious art prize awarded by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts most years from 1883 to 1968. A Temple Medal recognized the best oil painting by an American artist shown in PAFA's annual exhibition. Recipients included James Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Robert Henri and Edward Hopper.
Image: Maynard Francis Davis Millet as a War Correspondent 1878
Image: Pearce Peines de Coeur
Image: 'In the Wash house' by Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, 1888
Image: Parton American Art Assn 1892 catalogue p.54