John Moores Painting Prize: 1967, 1969, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1982
Catalogues of six years of the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition held at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Details below via Liverpool Museums Stock Number: RB03593
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 6, 23 November 1967 – 21 January 1968. Number of exhibits: 106. David Hockney wins and uses the prize money to send his parents on holiday to Australia. Prizewinners/Purchase prizes: David Hockney 1st prize £1,500, Malcolm Hughes 2nd prize £1,000, Joe Tilson 3rd prize £750. Non-Purchase prizes 5 prizes of £100: Harry Ball, D. A. Cordery, Alan Gouk, Derek Southall, Richard Ward. 5 prizes of £50: Keith Brocklehurst, Douglas Kemp, Gordon Snee, Jean Spencer, Stephen Young. Jurors: John Moores (Chair), Adrian Heath, Norbert Lynton, Pierre Restany, Lilian Somerville.
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 7, 26 November 1969—26 January 1970. Number of exhibits: 91. First prize awarded jointly to two separate artists, Mary Martin 'Cross' and Richard. Mary Martin dies suddenly at the same time the Jury are deliberating the awards. 5 prizes of £300: Rasheed Araeen, Peter Kinley, Robert Owen, Tom Phillips, David Troostwyk. Jurors: Hugh Scrutton, Robyn Denny, Anthony Hill, Howard Hodgkin, RB Kitaj, William Scott, Adrian Henri was unable to attend judging.
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 8, 27 April — 2 July 1972. Number of exhibits: 80. The University of Liverpool purchases Euan Uglow's prizewinning painting for its art collection. Prizewinners: Euan Uglow 1st prize £3,000, 'Nude, 12 vertical positions from the eye’, Adrian Henri 2nd prize £2,000, Noel Forster 3rd prize £1,000. 5 prizes of £100: Rita Donagh, Stephen Collingbourne, Terry Setch, Sean Scully, Anthony Eyton.
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 9, 13 June 1974 – 15 September 1974. Number of exhibits: 90. A fourth prize specially added for Sean Scully's 'Subtraction Painting’. The first prize winning painting, Myles Murphy's 'Figure against a Yellow Foreground' (oil on canvas, 152 x 245.3cm), is now in the Tate's collections. Prizewinners: Myles Murphy 1st prize £3,000, 'Figure against a Yellow Foreground’, John G Walker 2nd prize £2,000, Craigie Aitchison 3rd prize £1,000, Sean Scully 4th prize £500. 10 prizes of £100: Michael J Bennett, Stephen Buckley, Jeffery B Camp, Maurice Cockrill, Barrie Cook, Anthony Green, Peter Hedegaard, Richard Kidd, Alan Miller, Laetitia Yhap. Jurors: John Moores (Chair), Susan Grayson, William Feaver, Patrick George.
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 10, 6 May 1976 – 8 August 1976. Prizewinners: John Walker 1st prize £4,000, 'Juggernaut with Plume - for P Neruda' , Howard Hodgkin 2nd prize £3,000, Laurie Baldwyn 3rd prize £2,000. 10 prizes of £100: Stephen Farthing, Chris Hugh Fisher, John Mark France, Dick French, Michael Heindorff, Derek Christopher Johnson, Edwina Leapman, Helen Cecilia Lee, Fernando Maza, Alan Miller. Jurors: Timothy Stevens (Chair), Dore Ashton, Peter de Francia, J Kasmin.
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 13, November 25 1982 – February 20 1983. Number of exhibits: 76. Sir John Moores refers to the "unhappy events in Toxteth as well as to economic North West" in the catalogue preface. John Hoyland 1st prize (Purchase prize) £6,000, 'Broken Bride 13.6.82’. Gillian Ayres 2nd prize £3,000. Adrian Berg 3rd prize £2,000. 10 prizes of £250: Barrie Cook, Joan Dawson, Stephen Farthing, Albert Irvin, John Lessore, Michael Scott, Norman Stevens, Leon Vilaincour, Anthony Whishaw, Emrys Williams. Jurors: Sir John Moores (Chair), Stephen Buckley, Myles Murphy, William Packer, Joe Tilson, who was to have been one of the judges, was unable to take part.
Catalogues of six years of the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition held at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Details below via Liverpool Museums Stock Number: RB03593
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 6, 23 November 1967 – 21 January 1968. Number of exhibits: 106. David Hockney wins and uses the prize money to send his parents on holiday to Australia. Prizewinners/Purchase prizes: David Hockney 1st prize £1,500, Malcolm Hughes 2nd prize £1,000, Joe Tilson 3rd prize £750. Non-Purchase prizes 5 prizes of £100: Harry Ball, D. A. Cordery, Alan Gouk, Derek Southall, Richard Ward. 5 prizes of £50: Keith Brocklehurst, Douglas Kemp, Gordon Snee, Jean Spencer, Stephen Young. Jurors: John Moores (Chair), Adrian Heath, Norbert Lynton, Pierre Restany, Lilian Somerville.
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 7, 26 November 1969—26 January 1970. Number of exhibits: 91. First prize awarded jointly to two separate artists, Mary Martin 'Cross' and Richard. Mary Martin dies suddenly at the same time the Jury are deliberating the awards. 5 prizes of £300: Rasheed Araeen, Peter Kinley, Robert Owen, Tom Phillips, David Troostwyk. Jurors: Hugh Scrutton, Robyn Denny, Anthony Hill, Howard Hodgkin, RB Kitaj, William Scott, Adrian Henri was unable to attend judging.
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 8, 27 April — 2 July 1972. Number of exhibits: 80. The University of Liverpool purchases Euan Uglow's prizewinning painting for its art collection. Prizewinners: Euan Uglow 1st prize £3,000, 'Nude, 12 vertical positions from the eye’, Adrian Henri 2nd prize £2,000, Noel Forster 3rd prize £1,000. 5 prizes of £100: Rita Donagh, Stephen Collingbourne, Terry Setch, Sean Scully, Anthony Eyton.
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 9, 13 June 1974 – 15 September 1974. Number of exhibits: 90. A fourth prize specially added for Sean Scully's 'Subtraction Painting’. The first prize winning painting, Myles Murphy's 'Figure against a Yellow Foreground' (oil on canvas, 152 x 245.3cm), is now in the Tate's collections. Prizewinners: Myles Murphy 1st prize £3,000, 'Figure against a Yellow Foreground’, John G Walker 2nd prize £2,000, Craigie Aitchison 3rd prize £1,000, Sean Scully 4th prize £500. 10 prizes of £100: Michael J Bennett, Stephen Buckley, Jeffery B Camp, Maurice Cockrill, Barrie Cook, Anthony Green, Peter Hedegaard, Richard Kidd, Alan Miller, Laetitia Yhap. Jurors: John Moores (Chair), Susan Grayson, William Feaver, Patrick George.
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 10, 6 May 1976 – 8 August 1976. Prizewinners: John Walker 1st prize £4,000, 'Juggernaut with Plume - for P Neruda' , Howard Hodgkin 2nd prize £3,000, Laurie Baldwyn 3rd prize £2,000. 10 prizes of £100: Stephen Farthing, Chris Hugh Fisher, John Mark France, Dick French, Michael Heindorff, Derek Christopher Johnson, Edwina Leapman, Helen Cecilia Lee, Fernando Maza, Alan Miller. Jurors: Timothy Stevens (Chair), Dore Ashton, Peter de Francia, J Kasmin.
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 13, November 25 1982 – February 20 1983. Number of exhibits: 76. Sir John Moores refers to the "unhappy events in Toxteth as well as to economic North West" in the catalogue preface. John Hoyland 1st prize (Purchase prize) £6,000, 'Broken Bride 13.6.82’. Gillian Ayres 2nd prize £3,000. Adrian Berg 3rd prize £2,000. 10 prizes of £250: Barrie Cook, Joan Dawson, Stephen Farthing, Albert Irvin, John Lessore, Michael Scott, Norman Stevens, Leon Vilaincour, Anthony Whishaw, Emrys Williams. Jurors: Sir John Moores (Chair), Stephen Buckley, Myles Murphy, William Packer, Joe Tilson, who was to have been one of the judges, was unable to take part.
Catalogues of six years of the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition held at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Details below via Liverpool Museums Stock Number: RB03593
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 6, 23 November 1967 – 21 January 1968. Number of exhibits: 106. David Hockney wins and uses the prize money to send his parents on holiday to Australia. Prizewinners/Purchase prizes: David Hockney 1st prize £1,500, Malcolm Hughes 2nd prize £1,000, Joe Tilson 3rd prize £750. Non-Purchase prizes 5 prizes of £100: Harry Ball, D. A. Cordery, Alan Gouk, Derek Southall, Richard Ward. 5 prizes of £50: Keith Brocklehurst, Douglas Kemp, Gordon Snee, Jean Spencer, Stephen Young. Jurors: John Moores (Chair), Adrian Heath, Norbert Lynton, Pierre Restany, Lilian Somerville.
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 7, 26 November 1969—26 January 1970. Number of exhibits: 91. First prize awarded jointly to two separate artists, Mary Martin 'Cross' and Richard. Mary Martin dies suddenly at the same time the Jury are deliberating the awards. 5 prizes of £300: Rasheed Araeen, Peter Kinley, Robert Owen, Tom Phillips, David Troostwyk. Jurors: Hugh Scrutton, Robyn Denny, Anthony Hill, Howard Hodgkin, RB Kitaj, William Scott, Adrian Henri was unable to attend judging.
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 8, 27 April — 2 July 1972. Number of exhibits: 80. The University of Liverpool purchases Euan Uglow's prizewinning painting for its art collection. Prizewinners: Euan Uglow 1st prize £3,000, 'Nude, 12 vertical positions from the eye’, Adrian Henri 2nd prize £2,000, Noel Forster 3rd prize £1,000. 5 prizes of £100: Rita Donagh, Stephen Collingbourne, Terry Setch, Sean Scully, Anthony Eyton.
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 9, 13 June 1974 – 15 September 1974. Number of exhibits: 90. A fourth prize specially added for Sean Scully's 'Subtraction Painting’. The first prize winning painting, Myles Murphy's 'Figure against a Yellow Foreground' (oil on canvas, 152 x 245.3cm), is now in the Tate's collections. Prizewinners: Myles Murphy 1st prize £3,000, 'Figure against a Yellow Foreground’, John G Walker 2nd prize £2,000, Craigie Aitchison 3rd prize £1,000, Sean Scully 4th prize £500. 10 prizes of £100: Michael J Bennett, Stephen Buckley, Jeffery B Camp, Maurice Cockrill, Barrie Cook, Anthony Green, Peter Hedegaard, Richard Kidd, Alan Miller, Laetitia Yhap. Jurors: John Moores (Chair), Susan Grayson, William Feaver, Patrick George.
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 10, 6 May 1976 – 8 August 1976. Prizewinners: John Walker 1st prize £4,000, 'Juggernaut with Plume - for P Neruda' , Howard Hodgkin 2nd prize £3,000, Laurie Baldwyn 3rd prize £2,000. 10 prizes of £100: Stephen Farthing, Chris Hugh Fisher, John Mark France, Dick French, Michael Heindorff, Derek Christopher Johnson, Edwina Leapman, Helen Cecilia Lee, Fernando Maza, Alan Miller. Jurors: Timothy Stevens (Chair), Dore Ashton, Peter de Francia, J Kasmin.
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 13, November 25 1982 – February 20 1983. Number of exhibits: 76. Sir John Moores refers to the "unhappy events in Toxteth as well as to economic North West" in the catalogue preface. John Hoyland 1st prize (Purchase prize) £6,000, 'Broken Bride 13.6.82’. Gillian Ayres 2nd prize £3,000. Adrian Berg 3rd prize £2,000. 10 prizes of £250: Barrie Cook, Joan Dawson, Stephen Farthing, Albert Irvin, John Lessore, Michael Scott, Norman Stevens, Leon Vilaincour, Anthony Whishaw, Emrys Williams. Jurors: Sir John Moores (Chair), Stephen Buckley, Myles Murphy, William Packer, Joe Tilson, who was to have been one of the judges, was unable to take part.
