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Waring, a portrait artist whom Brady had admired
after seeing her work at Cheyney Teachers College for Negroes,
the only such land grant institution north of the Mason/Dixon line.
The second gold medal was given to William Edourard Scott of
Indianapolis, one of Henry O.Tanner's former students in Paris.
John Wesley Hardry received the Bronze award.
Honorable mentions were given to Malvin Gray Johnson, Aaron Douglas,
James L. Allen, Hilyard Robinson, Paul R. Williams and Allan
Freelon. 21 In addition to the awards donated by the Harmon
Foundation to outstanding Black artists, philanthropist and well
known art patron, Otto H. Kahn began donating a $250.00 award to any
artist for the best single work exclusive of those receiving a Harmon
Award. [strike: Mr.] Kahn stipulated that his name [strike: was to] should
remain unknown except to the winning artist. 22 * Sargent Claude Johnson the
Oakland, California Ceramicest and sculpture was the recipient of the first Otto H. Kahn
Award for his terra cotta head of a young Black waif called "Sammy".
In 1928, the Harmon Foundation and the Commission on the Church
and Race Relations of the Federal Council of Churches joined together
to sponsor the [strike: first] ongoing national showing of works by artists of African
descent. The exhibition opened ^that year^ at International House at 500
Riverside Drive in New York City on January 6 and closed January 17.
Eighty-seven oil paintings, etchings, lithographs and sculptures by
forty artists were exhibited. Portrait paintings formed the greatest
number of works in the exhibition. "The Old Snuff Dipper" by
Archibald Motley received first prize; May Howard Jackson received
second prize and Malvin Gray Johnson received the Otto H. Kahn Award
for a painting. 23 During the less than two weeks that the exhibition
was on view, attendance was over 2,500.

* George Haynes of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ
in America contacted Otto H. Kahn on Brady's advice
and solicited the funds, on an annual basis, that
enabled the award to be given in his name.