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Cornell Prize

Former art prize in South Australia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ5171550 ↗
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The Cornell Prize, officially F. Cornell Art Prize, was a major contemporary art prize offered in South Australia from 1951 until 1965.

History

The inaugural prize was presented at an exhibition by the Contemporary Art Society of South Australia from 1951 to 1965. In that year, the judges were R. G. Campbell, Kym Bonython, Max Harris, Joseph Choate, and Dorrit Black.

The prize was administered by the Cornell family. Several of the prize-winning paintings were subsequently acquired by the Art Gallery of South Australia.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cornell Prize” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.