January 1, 2007
ARTIST
RECEIVES HONORS
New York artist Evan Wilson was recently honored with
the William
Bouguereau Award,
for Emotion, Theme and the Figure, in the 2006 Art Renewal
Center’s annual International Salon. Founded in 1999,
ARC is known as the largest on-line museum on the Internet
and one of the Internet’s leading art resources.
Attracting over 1,600 entrants every year, in twelve
countries from USA to China, the annual competition’s
principal mission is for the preservation and advancement
of traditional art. Wilson’s painting
Anita and
Elliot,
shows a young mother in the early hours of the morning,
with a sleeping infant on her arm. The painting is
currently at the Jule Collins Smith Museum in Auburn,
Alabama, as part of a traveling exhibition titled:
“Legacy, A Tradition
Lives On”.
In
addition to the Bouguereau Award, Wilson received a
Chairman’s
Choice Award
for his painting entitled: Lillian.
A third painting, Katherine
was chosen to be among the top 100 paintings in the
competition.
Wilson
lives and paints in Hoosick, New York.