Philadelphia Water Color Society

124th International Exhibition of Works on Paper

About the Exhibition

September 17 to October 19, 2024

Henry Gallery
Penn State Great Valley,
Malvern, PA 19355

A total of 72 works were selected for this exhibition from a total of 316 entries. In addition to watercolor, media include acrylic, colored pencil, gouache and pastel, The accepted artists hail from 20 states within the United States and from five other countries in North America, Europe and Asia.

Many of these works are still for sale. If you are interested in a particular work or in an artist, fill out the form on this page and we'll forward your information to the artists. What happens after that is between you and the artist. The Philadelphia Water Color Society does not take a commission.

Award Winners

Kenneth Call - Best in Show
Dorrie F Rifkin - Elizabeth Shober Hooper Memorial Award for Excellence in Presentation and Technique
Susan Stuller - PWCS Founders Award
Jean K. Gill - Red Rose Girls Award
Chris Krupinski - PWCS Members' Award
Carmella Tuliszewski - PWCS Award for Use of Color
Stacy Lund Levy - W. Emerson Heitland Memorial Award
Linda Young - Frank Nofer Memorial Award for Transparent Watercolor
Radhika Srinivas - PWCS Discretionary Award
Eveline Miller - Philadelphia Pastel Society Award
Kathy A Kitz - Marie L Hollenbeck Award for Excellence
Rebecca Krutsinger - Baltimore Watercolor Society Award for Excellence
Nanette Catigbe - Don Patterson Award
Lauren Daddona - International Society of Experimental Artists Award
Richard Harrington - Mel Fetteroff Award
Mick McAndrews - Mildred Sands Kratz Award for Traditional Watercolor
Lisa Arnold Franklin - PWCS Award for Composition
Albina P Herron - Newman & Saunders Gallery Award
Giovanni Balzarani - Sandra Swain Memorial Award for Representational Landscape in Watercolor
Mary Rinderle Smith - Mary K McGee Memorial Award for Excellence in Pastel
Partha Protim Bala - American Picture Framing Award
Bulbul Majumder - Ginny Coombs Award for Excellence
Karen Fitzgerald - Thorton Oakley Memorial Award
Kathy Simon-McDonald - Helen Farr Sloan Award given by the Studio Group at Howard Pyle Studios
Denise DeNault Croft - Bonnie and Harrison von Duyke Award for Transparent Watercolor
Matthew Bird - New Jersey Watercolor Society
Karen Romani - Pennsylvania Watercolor Society Award for Excellence
Terri M Morse - The Elaine Edwards Award
Carol Ashton-Hergenhan - Barbara Ball Memorial Fund
Susan W Murphy - Doree Loschiavo Award for Experimental Watercolor

Juror of Selection

Christopher Leeper is a full-time artist from Canfield, OH. He is the author of Realism in Water Media, North Light. He has illustrated four children’s books for the Smithsonian and the African Wildlife Foundation. His work has been featured in several books and publications, including The Artist’s Magazine, American Artist, Plein Air Magazine and Ohio Magazine. He is a member of the adjunct faculty in the Department of Art at Youngstown State University. He served as president of the Ohio Watercolor Society (2008-2012).

His website is christopherleeper.com.

Juror of Awards

Tim Saternow 's watercolor paintings explore the lost and forgotten areas on the edges of the urban scene. His work encompasses the old High Line train trestle above the gritty industrial streets of New York City, the empty homesteads of Joshua Tree, California, and the dignified and genial old houses of Provincetown, on Cape Cod. He paints large architectural landscape watercolors with a thick use of watercolor paint, playing with the tension between the illusions of depth, carefully drawn linear perspective, and an obvious play on the surface of the paper through watermarks, paint runs, blooms and spatters. Saternow is particularly sensitive to the emotive power of light, especially the distinct light of fall and winter creating deep shadows while playing across the faces of the old brick townhouses in New York and the weathered clapboard of Cape Cod. Tim Saternow was awarded the 2019 Fellowship with The Clark Hulings Fund, and is currently an Executive Fellow in the Clark Hulings Fund’s Art-Business Accelerator Program.

His website is timsaternow.com.

Catalog Donation

Our society publishes a full-color catalog of the Annual International Exhbition that is sent to all participants and members of our society. This publication had largely been funded by a grant, but this support ended in 2019.

If you can, a small donation towards the productions of this catalog will be appreciated.