Jay Meuser Memorial Award
On the 100th anniversary of his birth, the Jay Meuser Memorial Award was reinstated by the National Watercolor Society. After his passing away in 1963, the Jay Meuser Memorial Award was presented for eleven consecutive years.
Elaine Daily-Birnbaum was given the award at the 91st Annual National Watercolor Society Awards Luncheon for her abstract painting "Other Wonders" on October 22, 2011. Other recipients are listed below.
California Water Color Society
- 1963
- Olga Higgins
- "Message to Paul Klee"
- 1964
- Nick Brigante
- "Three PM Fog"
- 1965
- Herbert Griswold
- "Escondido #2"
- 1966
- Wesley Johnson
- "Summer Cross"
California National Water color Society
- 1968
- Eyvind Earle
- "Beach of Darkness"
- 1969
- Walter Askin
- "Lyrical Visitation"
- 1970
- E. J. Velardi
- "Elevated Journey"
- 1971
- James Fuller
- "Barnum & Bailey, and the Flying Zuccini Brothers"
- 1972
- William McEnroe
- "Patterns"
- 1973
- Michael Lasuchin
- "Confluence"
National Watercolor Society
- 2011
- Elaine Daily-Birnbaum
- "Other Wonders"
(Jay Meuser 100th anniversary)
Jay Meuser was accepted as member of this prestigious organization in 1955, when it was called the California Water Color Society. At that time, he had received several awards for watercolor painting and was also juried into some of the society's traveling shows across the United States and Mexico.
Some of his California Water Color Society travel show paintings are listed below:
Occultation
- Tempera
- Award selection for the California Water Color Society Travel Show Selection in 1962
- H. Daniels Artist Materials Merchandise Award at the 42nd Annual National Exhibition
- Was among 20 out of 728 artists selected to exhibit in the National Travel Show
- Chosen by Jury at the 42nd Annual National Exhibition of the California Water Color Society, opened at the Long Beach Museum of Art.
- "Selected as one of the outstanding works in the current exhibit and will travel in a special section of the show which allows many areas of the country to view the best contemporary creative efforts of some of the finest watercolor painters in the United States". CWCS
Contrasts
- 1960 Travel Exhibition of the California Water Color Society
- Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin, Mexico City, Mexico
- Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin Branch Library, Guadalajara, Mexico
- Acapulco, Mexico
- Mexican Fine Arts Palace, Mexico City, Mexico
Drawing 1956
- Drawing
- Traveling section of the California Water Color Society 4th Biennial Drawing Show, 1956.
Images
- Drawing
- California Water Color Society 4th Biennial Drawing Show, 1956.
- Selected by the San Francisco Art Institute's jury for showing at the 25th annual Drawing Exhibition, October 21-November 19, 1961 at the San Francisco Museum of Art.
Return
- Tempera
- Selected by jury of five for the California Water Color Society 1955 Annual Exhibition
- California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California, January 14 February 12 1956
- Exhibited in the 35th Annual National Exhibition of the California Water Color Society, started out getting shown in the Long Beach Municipal Art Center and then moved to the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California
