Red Smith Award
People’s Choice Award
Trustee Purchase Award
Robert Kuhn Award
Featured Painters
Featured Sculptor
Red Smith Award
Each Year, attending Western Visions® artists vote for the Red Smith Award recipient. The winning artist is awarded a $1000 cash prize, and a full-page ad in Fine Art Connoisseur magazine. The award is sponsored by Fine Art Connoisseur.
2020 T. Allen Lawson
2019 Lindsay Scott
2018 William Alther
2017 Edward Fraughton
2016 George Arthur Carlson
2015 Timothy David Mayhew
2014 Daniel W. Pinkham
2013 Walter Matia
2012 Jim Morgan
2011 Timothy Shinabarger
2010 Steven Devenyns
2009 Thomas Quinn
2008 Steve Kestrel & Greg McHuron
2007 Jim Morgan
2006 Harley Brown
2005 Greg Beecham
2004 Walter Matia
2003 Greg McHuron
2002 Howard Rodgers
2001 Mian Situ
2000 Skip Whitcomb
1999 Bob Kuhn
1998 Clyde Aspevig
1997 Matt Smith
1996 Jim Morgan
1995 T. Allen Lawson
1994 Bob Kuhn
1993 Bill Reese
1992 Len Chimiel
1991 Skip Whitcomb
1990 Clark Hulings
People’s Choice Award History
The People’s Choice Award is generously sponsored by Southwest Art magazine and is given to the public’s favorite artwork from the Show & Sale. Each person submits one vote during the week of the show for his or her favorite artwork.
2020 Lennart Sand
2019 Mary Roberson
2018 John Serrey-Lester
2017 John Serrey-Lester
2016 Edward Aldrich
2015 Adam Smith
2014 Ewoud de Groot
2013 Britt Freda
2012 Mary Roberson
2011 Daniel Smith
2010 Donald Crowley
2009 Greg Beecham
2008 Daniel Smith
2007 Steve Kestrel
2006 Jim Morgan
2005 Brenda Murphy
Trustee Purchase Award
The Trustee Purchase Award is given to one artist for a single artwork entered in the Show & Sale. National Museum of Wildlife Art Trustees will vote for the Purchase Award and the winning artwork will become a part of the Museum’s acclaimed permanent collection.
2020 John Banovich
2019 Mark Eberhard
2018 Robert Glen
2017 Kathryn Mapes Turner
2016 Brad Rude
2015 Rox Corbett
2014 Timothy David Mayhew
2013 Britt Freda
2012 Ralph Oberg
2011 Mark Eberhard
2010 September Vhay
2009 Greg McHuron
2008 Chris Bacon
Robert Kuhn Award
This award is named for a great friend of the Museum, the late Bob Kuhn. The Robert Kuhn Award will go to the best submission in the category of artists’ sketches as determined by a panel of judges. Sketches by painters and sculptors are eligible. (No sketch component in 2021)
