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.