PARIS AWARD TO RUBINS '24

Announcement has recently been made of the award to David K. Rubins '24 of the first Paris prize by the Department of Sculpture at the Beaux Arts Institute of Design. The prize consists of $l2OO to be used for one year's study in Paris.

The announcement as made in the NewYork Times continues :

"Several of the prize winners in sculpture and painting outside the institute in recent years have been surrounded by the romantic atmosphere of an attic studio and, in one instance, an eviction for unpaid rent on the eve of winning the prize, but young Rubins typifies the hustling American boy who makes good under conditions more dynamic than romantic.

Rubins was a student at Dartmouth College for two years, where he was preparing for architecture, and then, as he described it to a Times reporter, he gave that up and "decided to take a crack at sculpture."

He won the Paris prize after fourteen months at sculpture, and he calls it a period of inspired study at the institute. He said he went to work with a tense striving toward a great goal, and he feels that he won the prize owing to the little knowledge he had already of architectural problems. The competition consisted of a problem tO' design an Attic figure of the Roman style for a supposed building.

He also said that the system of changing the instructors every three months in the department of sculpture at the institute gave him a great diversity of opinion, which he considered a great help for the student.

The winner of the Paris prize is the son of H. W. Rubins of 219 Groveland Avenue, Minneapolis, Minn., who is a mural decorator. His parents are American born, his father of English and his mother of German descent. He is now looking forward to a year in Paris, and he intends to keep right on at sculpturing after he finishes his year in Paris and will not return to school.

Although the department of sculpture is now in its thirteenth season at the institute, this is the first time a prize was awarded. There were nineteen contestants, and the jury consisted of a group of the most distinguished architects and sculptors in New York.

The Director of Sculpture is Edward Field Sanford, Jr., and there are night classes where ambitious young workers in claystreaked smocks may be seen, putting their hearts into the work of their hands.

The Society of Beaux Arts Architects was founded in 1894, of which the Institute of Design is an outgrowth, and the purpose of the institute was to furnish instruction in the arts at a minimum cost to students, and to bring them under the criticism of artists who are engaged in active practice. The growth of the institute ideas is told in part by an increase from forty sets of drawings sent in by students in a year to 3,000 in a year. The late Lloyd Warren contributed liberally to carry on the work of the institute.

The Department of Architecture has for many years awarded a prix de Paris, which enabled the student to study for three years at the Ecole de Beaux Arts in Paris. On the Jury of Awards at the institute are such architects as Cass Gilbert, Whitney Warren, Donn Barber, Thomas Hastings, Harvet Corbett, Gamble Rogers and William R. Mead. The institute is located at 126 East Seventyfifth Street."