The Cornell Prize was the major

contemporary art Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the second half of the 20th century or in the 21st century. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a dynamic com ...

prize offered in

South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...

and was presented as an exhibition by the Contemporary Art Society of South Australia from 1951 to 1965. It was administered by the Cornell family. Several of the prize-winning paintings were subsequently acquired by the

Art Gallery of South Australia The Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), established as the National Gallery of South Australia in 1881, is located in Adelaide. It is the most significant visual arts museum in the Australian state of South Australia. It has a collection of ...

. Winners include: *

Wladyslaw Dutkiewicz Władysław Dutkiewicz (21 February 1918 in Stara Sil, Ukraine, then in Poland – 2 October 1999 in Adelaide) was a Polish-born naturalized Australian artist and Polish language playwright, winning multiple awards as a painter. He emigrated t ...

(Summertime, 1951 and Orient, 1955) *Douglas Roberts (Connoisseurs, 1952) * Ludwik Dutkiewicz (Boats after Storm, 1953 and Green Village 1954) * Francis Roy Thompson (Design with Coloured people, 1956) * Stanislaw Ostoja-Kotkowski (Form in Landscape, 1957 and Buildings, 1959) *

Jacqueline Hick Jacqueline Hick ('Jackie; 1919–2004) was an Australian painter whose work is held in the permanent collections of multiple museums in Australia. She is known for her work depicting human figures and the Australian landscape. She is the subjec ...

(Lost tribe, 1958 and Corridor, 1960) *

Barbara Hanrahan Barbara Janice Hanrahan (1939–1991) was an Australian artist, printmaker and writer whose work featured relationships, women, women's issues and feminist ideology. Hanrahan was also known for her writings and short stories featuring coming ...

(1961) *

Udo Sellbach Udo Sellbach (1927–2006) was a German-Australian visual artist and educator whose work focused primarily around his printmaking practice. History Udo Sellbach was born in Cologne, Germany in 1927. Trained at Kölner Werkschulen, Cologn ...

(1962) *Geoff Wilson (1963) *Franz Kempf (1964) *Lynn Collins (1965)

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{{reflist Australian art awards Awards established in 1951 Awards disestablished in 1965