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entered that met their requirements or there were no works entered in
a specific field. But^Brady insisted on^[strike - the Harmon Foundation] honoring a number of
Blacks during that first year. Countee Cullen ^a writer and the son of a Harlem Baptist minister^
was awarded the first prize for excellence in literature. James Weldon Johnson, another writer
and a principal officer in the NAACP, received the second prize in ^literature^ [strike -in the same category].
Arthur Schomberg * was awarded a prize for educational excellence. [strike: Mr.] C. C. Spaulding,
a businessman in Durham, North Carolina, received first prize for
establishing a life insurance plan for Blacks which he used to found
an educational foundation for Black men and women attending North
Carolina College for Negroes, #17, now North Carolina Central
University in Durham. Of all the recipients who were given
awards that year, none received the praise that Brady
heaped on Spaulding. In later years, she encouraged
Sculptor William Artis to model a terra cotta head of
[strike: Spaulding] the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance executive.
In the fine arts category, Palmer Hayden was awarded first prize ^in art ^
for his painting "The Schooner. #18 Hayden used his prize money, along with a
$3,000.00 grant received from a patron to pursue his studies in Paris
where he became the private pupil of Clivette Lefevre at the Ecole
des Beaux-Arts. [ at top of page ? ? ?]in Paris during the next six years. Upon his return to New York in
1932, he was invited by Brady to
become an employee of the Harmon Foundation, a position he retained
until the Foundation ceased operations. The second prize and the bronze medal
went to Hale A. Woodruff. #19 Woodruff, who was the recipient of money from another
patron, along with the $100 prize from the Foundation to travel to Europe. He resigned
his job with the Y.M.C.A. in New York and sailed for Paris
in 1927. ^He enrolled ^ [strike: and began studying] at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere
and Studio Painting. Both Hayden and Woodruff exchanged letters with Brady
during their stay in Paris, each given a detailed account of
their progress in art and occasionally asking for additional funds. It
was there that he assimilated his Impressionist style.
In 1927, the second year of the Harmon Foundation's awards for
excellence in the visual arts, an even larger number of Black
artists entered their works. The gold medal ^in Painting ^ went to Laura
Wheeler

* the Peurto Rician born bibliophile who had worked hard
to help Black Americans research their own African past

18 Palmer Hayden's Christian name was Peyton Cole Hedgeman.
For a full discussion of the subject see: David Driskell "The Flowering of the
Harlem Renaissance: The Art of Aaron Douglas, Meta Warwick Fuller,
Palmer Hayden and William H. Johnson

[on side of page] ? ? ? convinced ? ? Harvey of
Boston to purchase the work for the sum of $125