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The Buckingham has awarded $10,000 in purchase
prize money to 3 student painters, winners of
the second Buckingham Prize for the Expression
of Music through Art. Malado Baldwin of The
New York Studio School was announced as the Grand
Prize winner.
“The idea
of expressing music in a painting intrigued
me immediately, and I found the Buckingham
Prize challenging and exciting,” said
Ms. Baldwin. “I often see music when
it’s playing; it registers emotionally
through colors and shapes. I invented melodies
while I created the Buckingham piece, so
you can say that I actually composed it.”
Baldwin’s piece, Modulations,
a double painted canvas oil diptych that
is rendered in pale blue with waves of dot-like
“melodies” moving over the surface,
was awarded the grand prize. Capriccio,
by Peg McCreary of the renowned Art Students
League, respectively took second place and
Concerning Music, by John Dechamp
of the Memphis College of Art, third.
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Modulations, culled from entries from around
the country, was awarded $7,000 and will be displayed
by the Buckingham Hotel in its grand lobby; additional
cash purchase prizes of $2,000 and $1,000 went
to McCreary and Dechamp.
Determination of the finalists of the Buckingham
Prize was made by a prestigious panel of judges,
including Graham Nickson, Dean of the New York
Studio School; Ira Goldberg, Director of the Art
Students League; Dennis Adams, Acting Dean, School
of Arts, Cooper Union; Annette Blaugrund, Ph.
D., National Academy Museum and School of Fine
Arts; John Torreano, Program Director of the MFA
program in Studio Art at New York University and
Barrett White, Assistant Vice President of Christie's
Post-War and Contemporary Art.
“The Buckingham Prize celebrates the extensive
musical history of the Hotel, as well as honors
West 57th Street's own long-standing artistic
traditions," said Stephen Shapiro, the Hotel's
Managing Partner. "For three-quarters of
a century, the Buckingham has been home to world
renowned musicians, performers and artists from
across the world, so the Hotel sees this competition
as a fitting contribution to both the performing
and visual arts."
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