Tryon Prize for Writing
The Tryon Prize is a monetary prize awarded by a jury for outstanding writing that examines art or ideas associated with the Smith College Museum of Art. Any Smith student may compete for the prize.
The Tryon Prize is named for Dwight W. Tryon, painter, benefactor of the Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA), and professor of art at Smith College from 1886 to 1923 and is endowed by members of SCMA’s Visiting Committee.
Submission Guidelines Submission Guidelines (PDF)
1. Please e-mail your entry to museduc@smith.edu
as a Word document with your last name as title. You must include a cover page with your:
Name, Title of Work, Class Year
Email
Phone
2. If the work was written for a course, include a description of the assignment.
Send your submission to museduc@smith.edu
Deadline: Entries must be electronically sent no later than noon, Friday, May 2, 2014.
Contact: 413 585 2677 or museduc@smith.edu
Tryon Prize Awards for Writing
2013
Jamie Samdahl ’15
- June (a poem after Christ of the Incas by Georges Henri Rouault)
Anna Mokros ‘13 & Shama Rahman ’13
- Introducing a Portrait Gallery to Smith College Museum of Art
Honorable Mention
Susan Liang, ’13
- Being Contemporary: The Contemporaneity of Contemporary Chinese Art
2012
Vanessa Brewster AC
- Painted Words (poetry)
Margaret Kurkoski ’12
- Pieces of the Past: Romanization in the House of Cilicia
Honorable Mention
Amy Lam ’12
- Daily Leisure (painting by Zou Li) & The Maple Leaf (poem by Han Cuiping)
2011
Erin Kelly AC
- Schoolteacher, The Pear Tree, and Charcoal Ghost (poetry)
- Second Prize
Phoebe Harris ’11
- Milk and Water
2010
Alessandra Amin ’12
- Instabilities of Form, Norm: Subjectivity in Mary Bauermeister’s Joie et Nuit
2009
Emily Casey '09
- ‘A fully-developed womanhood’: the collecting of fine art and a woman's education at Smith College,1875-1910.
2008
Katrina Greene ’08
- Constructing a Tragedy: Geometric Analysis of the Daughter of Jephthah
Marja van der Loo ’08
- The Girl Next Door: The Quest for Privacy in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Homes
Rebecca Mueller ’08
- The Death of J.P. Morgan
2007
No entries were selected for an award.
2006
Carolyn Creedon AC
- Evensong, The Real Apple, Hillyer Blues, Inside and Outside (poetry)
2005
Debra Klein ‘07
- Echo Lake, Franconia Mountains, New Hampshire: Albert Bierstadt's Vision of Harmony and Balance
Sharon Davenport AC
- Performing Modernity: La Table
Maeve Montalvo ‘07
- An Echoing Gaze and Wordless Song: Form as Narrative in Albert Bierstadt's Echo Lake
2004
Rachel Fendler ‘04
- Method and Meaning in ‘Minkisi Minkondi’
Morgan Beucler ‘04
- Flat-bottomed Aryballos
Honorable Mention
Rebecca Alexander ‘04
- Do-Ho Suh and Yinka Shonibare: Exploring the Ambiguities of ‘Home’