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Grant TT oodTakes FirstsDES MOINES. Aug. 20.—(AP' — Under leaden skies that dropped an occasional drizzle of rain, the Iowa State Fair and Exposition opened its seventy-sixth year today.Already the task of judging the hundreds of exhibits had begun and the prize winners in the statewide art exhibit were announced this morning.Grant Wood of Cedar Rapids and Arthur Asa Dillon of Des Moines shared honors, the former showing the sweepstakes winners in oilpainting and the latter the best water color.The winners In the senior division:Landscape or still life in oil—First, Grant Wood; second. Lee Allen, Des Moines; third. Arnold Pyle. Cedar Rapids; fourth. David McCosh, Cedar Rapids. Honorable mention included Orr C. Fisher, Mount Ayr; Marvin Cone. Cedar Rapids, and Mildred Pelzer, Iowa City.Portrait or figure in oil—First, Grant Wood; second. Harriet Sargent, Cedar Rapids; third, C. Everett Jeffrey. Cedar Rapids: fourth. Edward Bruns. Cedar Rapids. Honorable mention, Leon A. Zeman, Cedar Rapids and Frances Price Young and Aden F. Arnold. Iowa City.Water colors or pastels-First.Arthur Asa Dillon; second. LeeAllen. Des Moines: third. Aden F\andfarrtiorAmo:Griffith. Ames. Honorable men-cas:tion—Kate Keith Van Duzee. Dubuque. and Julie Haskell Oleson, Fort Dodge.Black and white monochrome— Kate Keith Van Duzee. Dubuque; second. Harry D. Jones. Des Moines; third, Mildred Pelzer. Iowa City; fourth. Orr C. Fisher. Mount Ayr.Poster of a pictorial or decorative design—First. Dorothy Stacey. Des Moines; second. Aden F. Arnold, Iowa City; third. Roy D. Demirjean. Des Moines: fourth, Lelia B. Anderson. Des Moines.In the junior division, awards included:Oil paintings— First. Fdwln Ford. Milo; second, Lawrence Binder. Corning: third. Della Peterson.Grand Junctioni Black and white monochrome drawings—First, Mary' Allen, Despici;mrclos tior con : stoiMoines: second, Lawrence Bmcfer, Coming; third, Elizabeth Child. Des Moines.Collection of decorative designs— First. Helen Pederson, Iowa City; second, Virginia Packer. Iowa City; third. Dorothy Chapman. Des Momra Honorable mention—Della Peterson. Grand Junction.Shell Oil CompanvPasses Dividendgrand senior: Alice Swanstrom ofFort Dodge for grand junior: Chairman Tayloi of Cedar Palls lor grand . x „ manager; Bertha Buffington ol Ce-I Iti I ommnn NtI - dar Raniris. fnr omnH ntthlfTof twillwhirowFir:wesstrfSixThinuedarACeeIPStairandDKBaiknedeacenda\
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The Evening Gazette and Republican

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US

Wed, Aug 20, 1930

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