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Robyn O’Neil wins $50,000 Hunting Art Prize
Kingswood, Texas painter Robyn O’Neil has won the $50,000 Hunting Art Prize for her drawing “A death, a fall, a march: toward a better world.”
The prize was announced Saturday night in Houston.
O’Neil’s drawing was selected from 129 final juried participants each of whom had been selected for a single two-dimensional painting and drawing.
O’Neil has exhibited at Whitney Museum in New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; ArtPace, San Antonio.
Here in Austin, O’Neil’s work has been seen at Arthouse and at the Blanton Museum of Art which has her work in its permanent collection. The Hunting Prize is limited to two-dimensional paintings and drawings. No printmaking, photography, collage, assemblage, sculpture, relief, found object, or computer-generated works. It is open by self—submission to amateur and established artists in Texas who are 18 years of age or older.
Twenty artists from Central Texas were named finalists.
The award is given annually by Hunting PLC, an international oil services company. The awards parameters changed to a Texas focus when Hunting moved its North American headquarters are to Houston after a quarter-century in the United Kingdom.
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