Cornell Prize was the major contemporary art prize offered in South Australia

South Australia

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 and was presented as an exhibition by the Contemporary Art Society of South Australia from 1951 to 1965. It was administered by the Cornell family.

Early winners were:

• Wladyslaw Dutkiewicz
  Wladyslaw Dutkiewicz
  Wladyslaw Dutkiewicz, born 21 February 1918 in Stara Sol, Poland, and died 2 October 1999 in Adelaide, Australia, was a notable Australian artist and Polish language Playwright, winning multiple awards as a painter. He emigrated to Australia in 1949....
  
   (Summertime, 1951 and Orient, 1955)
• Douglas Roberts (Connoisseurs, 1952)
• Ludwik Dutkiewicz (Boats after Storm, 1953 and Green Village 1954)
• Francis Roy Thompson (Design with Coloured people, 1956)
• Stanislaw Ostoja-Kotkowski (Form in Landscape, 1957 and Buildings, 1959)
• Jacqueline Hick (Lost tribe, 1958 and Corridor, 1960)

Other winners, until its demise in 1966, were:

• Barbara Hanrahan (1961)
• Udo Sellbach (1962)
• Geoff Wilson (1963)
• Franz Kempf (1964)
• Lynn Collins (1965)

These dates are verified by press clippings and official notifications.

Several of these paintings were acquired subsequently by the Art Gallery of South Australia

Art Gallery of South Australia

The Art Gallery of South Australia , located on the cultural boulevard of North Terrace in Adelaide, is the premier visual arts museum in the Australian state of South Australia. It has a collection of over 35,000 works of art, making it, after the National Gallery of Victoria, the largest state...

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